Cyclist and pedestrian killed by lorries in crashes on London's roads

Death scene: The victim's bike is propped against railings as a police officer stands guard in Tanner Street, Bermondsey, where the man lost his life in a crash with a lorry
Rob Parsons12 April 2012

A cyclist and a pedestrian have died after being hit by lorries in separate accidents on the streets of London.

A 20-year-old man, thought to be a foreign national, was killed when his bike collided with a skip lorry in Bermondsey early yesterday afternoon.

Four hours earlier a male pedestrian in his thirties died after being trapped under a lorry outside Lambeth town hall in Brixton.

The skip lorry driver was arrested and taken for questioning after the crash in Bermondsey, which took place at the junction of Tanner Street and Tooley Street.

Both the cyclist and the lorry were travelling in the same direction at the time and police say it is unclear how the collision occurred.

The cyclist was taken to the Royal London Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses said he was bleeding heavily from the head as he lay on the road.

Erdogan Aydin, 40, who works at nearby Tower Fish Bar, said: "There was blood everywhere. All I could hear was the sounds of brakes and then someone shouted, 'He's gone'."

A man in his forties, who has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by careless driving, was today still in custody at a south London police station.

In the Brixton crash, paramedics attempted to resuscitate the man trapped under the lorry but he died at the scene.

Camilla Mills, 22, a freelance journalist who was nearby when the accident occurred, said: "I didn't actually see it happen but I was there.

"I'm still shaken - it was awful. He was trapped under a lorry and when they got him out he was dead.

"Some people kept going near the body to have a look, which I thought was disgusting, and police officers had to walk them away from there."

Police in Lambeth are investigating the death but no arrests have been made.

Anyone who saw the crash in Bermondsey is asked to call police on 020 8285 1574 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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