More on the London Critical Mass ride on Friday.

"Bike ride for three London cyclists killed by lorries
Miranda Bryant
26.03.10

Hundreds of cyclists are joining a mass bike ride today to raise
awareness of the dangers that lorries pose to cyclists in London.

The event is in memory of three cyclists who have died in the capital
in the past few weeks. They were killed in collisions with HGV
lorries.

Another cyclist is critical in hospital after being hit by a police
car in Islington on its way to a shooting in Hackney on Wednesday
night.

The cyclist, 59, who has not been named, was said to have been thrown
through the air by the force of the collision.

The ride, starting at 6pm on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge,
goes to Tower Bridge Road, where the accident involving university
professor David Vilaseca, 46, occurred, then Weston Street in
Southwark, where student Haris Ahmed, 21, was killed and Lauriston
Road in Hackney, near where singer Shivon Watson, 28, died. There will
be a minute's silence at each site.

Maxwell Watson, 53, Ms Watson's father, said of the mass bike ride: "I
am very grateful to them for highlighting how bad the traffic is in
London and how irresponsible drivers are.”"

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