'I've lost everything': Husband pays tribute to cyclist Anita Szucs killed in Enfield 'hit-and-run'

The husband of a cyclist who was killed in a suspected hit-and-run crash has said he has "lost everything" after her death.

Anita Szucs, 30, was knocked off her bike and killed on her way back from work at a Lidle warehouse in the early hours of Monday, February 6.

Ms Szucs, who married Mr Mezo in March last year, was hit by a car in Bounces Road, near her Enfield home at about 1.45am. She died in hospital a short while later.

Speaking to the Enfield Independent, Mr Mezo said: “People say I lost my other half but it feels much worse than that. I lost everything, I am nothing without Anita.

“Anita and I had a great life together. We travelled a lot, saw many beautiful places and spent money on the people we loved.

“We laughed and cried together. We kept each other on the right path.”

He said the couple “never stopped saying I love you” and that he believed Ms Szucs left the world with “happiness in her heart”.

Two men, aged 19 and 22, have been questioned by police of suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene of a collision. Both have been bailed until next month pending further enquiries.

Mr Szucs was the first cyclist killed on London’s roads this year. Her death came just hours before that of 30-year-old architect Karla Roman who died after she was hit by a coach on a cycle superhighway in Whitechapel.

Four days later, father-of-two Ben Wales was crushed to death by a truck in a crash as he cycled to work in Docklands on Thursday afternoon.

Two pedestrians were also killed in separate crashes in Limehouse and Euston.

Mr Mezo said pedestrians, cyclists and motorists needed to work together to improve road safety.

He told the newspaper: “Everyone on the streets has to respect the others, from the pedestrians to the hugest truck drivers.”

On Saturday, hundreds of activists gathered for a “die-in” protest outside the Treasury following the deaths of the three cyclists and two pedestrians who were killed.

The “die-in” vigil was part of a wider protest urging the Chancellor Phillip Hammond to invest 10 per cent of the transport budget on cycling and walking infrastructure by 2020.