Lorry driver denies causing cyclist Janina Gehlau's death in Farringdon Road

Killed: Janina Gehlau
By Paul Cheston21 September 2015
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A lorry driver has denied causing the death of a cyclist at one of London’s most notorious junctions.

Vincent Doyle, 45, was driving his HGV down Farringdon Road and turning left at Ludgate Circus when the collision with postgraduate student Janina Gehlau occurred.

Mrs Gehlau, 26, was pulled under the wheels and never regained consciousness after the collision on October 17 last year.

She died of her injuries in hospital three days later.

Doyle denied causing death by careless driving when he appeared at the Old Bailey today. His trial is listed for December 14, and is expected to last between two and three days.

Mrs Gehlau had been undertaking a three month voluntary research placement studying the history of ideas at the Warburg Institute at the time of her death.

Her husband Marcel Gehlau said she had brought a second hand bike to visit galleries and museums because she couldn’t afford public transport.

Mr Gehlau, an emergency department nurse in Germany, said his wife loved London and had chosen it over Paris and Rome for her placement.

He thanked the City of London police, paramedics and doctors who had tried to save his wife, saying: “Thank you is said far too little these day. It’s hard to underestimate the job the emergency services have done.”

The victim’s mother, Andrea Tasic, said: “If the emergency services didn’t react in the way they did, then we would not have had the chance to say a dignified goodbye to our daughter and wife.”

Mrs Gehlau arrived in the country on September 12 last year and was the 10th cyclist to die in London in 2014.

Several of Mrs Gehlau’s family, including her husband and her mother, were seated in the public gallery.

Doyle, of Willesden, was released on unconditional bail.

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