Dr Giles worked at the Centre for Polar Observation & Modelling, Department of Earth Sciences, University College London. From her own website: "I am a NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow and my research focuses on using satellites to better understand the physics of the ice covered polar oceans and how they are changing."
Aged 35, cycling to work on a Monday morning she was killed by a tipper truck at 8.25am. the driver was questioned by police at the scene but was not arrested.
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Dr Katharine Giles
From East London Cyclist: "Elizabeth was killed at the junction of Burdett Road and Mile End Road on Friday 24th September 1999 at 1.00 pm. The incident involved a 38-ton lorry turning left from Mi...
Aged 25. London cycle courier for Olympic killed by a left-turning skip lorry. Driver acquitted. Andrew Behan has kindly provided this research: John Paul Ellis was born on 15 February 1964 in Ire...
For many years commuted by bike from West Drayton to his job as a cycle courier at Rico Logistics in Tabernacle Street, EC2. Died when hit by a left-turning Terravision airport bus at about 1 pm o...
Eilidh was a 31 year old, keen, regular cyclist, living in Kentish Town and working in the City. An HGV tipper lorry caused her death in the morning rush hour traffic. Three months later the police...
Harry Webb was originally from Powys, Wales but had been living in Hackney. Aged 27, "he had a maths and philosophy degree from Bristol University, a masters in philosophy from Amsterdam universit...
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