Horse-drawn hearse to travel through central London in road safety protest

 
Protest: a horse drawn hearse will travel along Oxford Street to symbolise the victim's of road traffic accidents on London's roads (Picture: Stop Killing Cyclists)
Rachel Blundy13 November 2014

A horse-drawn hearse will travel through central London this weekend in protest at the numbers of cyclist and pedestrian deaths in the capital.

The coffin will be carried along Oxford Street and through Marble Arch as campaigners call on the government and Transport for London to invest more in road safety.

Campaign: cyclists at a previous 'die in' protest outside Transport for London HQ (Picture: Rory Jackson/Stop Killing Cyclists)

Protesters are hoping to bring traffic to a standstill as they stage a 'die-in' protest around the hearse.

132 people were killed on the city's roads last year, including 65 pedestrians and 14 cyclists, according to figures from Transport for London.

German postgraduate student Janina Gehlau was the tenth cyclist killed on the city's roads so far this year.

The 26-year-old was crushed under the wheels of a left-turning HGV at the notorious Ludgate Circus junction and died three days later in hospital.

Saturday's rally is being organised by campaign group Stop Killing Cyclists.

Group spokesperson Donnachadh McCarthy said: "This symbolic protest funeral and mega die-in is an urgent clarion call to end this carnage and environmental destruction.”

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