LCC (London Cycling Campaign) has updated its map of the capital’s most dangerous junctions for cyclists and pedestrians, while highlighting that 2024 has seen six cyclist fatalities so far in the city.
One particularly shocking statistic LCC highlighted was that in November, within the space of just days two people were killed cycling in Wandsworth, one at a junction listed on the map. The London borough has the dubious honour of hosting the most dangerous junction cluster for cycling in London.
The news comes as TfL announced recently that cycling is becoming more popular in the city, with a 5% increase in those pedalling their way around London in 2024.
LCC is now calling for council leaders to fix dangerous junctions. “We have highlighted some of the dangerous junctions on this list for years. How many more serious injuries and fatalities will it take for politicians to act” says Tom Fyans, chief executive, London Cycling Campaign.” There are junction designs that are safer and achievable to be found in London and across the UK. Until London takes bolder action, people will keep being killed while cycling and too few Londoners will feel safe enough to cycle,”
“More investment is needed now to make these junctions safe,” says Jeremy Leach, chair, London Living Streets. “Overall, London needs to bring in far more crossings in our town centres and high streets to make sure that pedestrians can cross the road safely,”
LCC’s Dangerous Junctions mapping is updated annually following publication by TfL of ‘STATS 19’ collision data compiled from emergency services reports. As well as updating the five years of data used to include the latest 2023 data, LCC has also updated the algorithm used to weight collision severity to further improve its mapping and better reveal the most dangerous junctions.
The mapping now gives more prominence to serious (often life-changing) and slight (involving emergency services action at the scene, and sometimes hospital) collisions and slightly reduces the weighting of rare fatal collisions in order to spot the highest risk of collision junctions better.
LCC’s mapping enables users to query the map on both pedestrian and cycling collisions, and for individual boroughs as well as London-wide.
The most dangerous junctions are…
Cycling
1. Upper Tooting Road cluster, TfL/Wandsworth
2. “Shoreditch Triangle” Great Eastern Street/Curtain Road, TfL/Hackney
3. Clapham High Street/Lendal Terrace, TfL/Lambeth
4. Wandsworth Road/Silverthorne Road, Lambeth
5. “Holborn” Southampton Row/Theobalds Road, Camden
6. Knightsbridge/Albert Gate/Sloane Street/Brompton Road, TfL/Kensington & Chelsea/Westminster
7. Lambeth Road/Kennington Road, Lambeth/Southwark
8. Royal College Street/Baynes Street, Camden
9. Mitcham Road/Leighton Street, Croydon
10. Seven Sisters Road/Blackstock Road/Stroud Green Road, TfL/Hackney/Haringey/Islington
Pedestrians
1. Brixton Road/Acre Lane/Coldharbour Lane, TfL/Lambeth
2. “Tottenham Court Road” Oxford Street/Charing Cross Road, Camden/Westminster
3. “Monument” King William Street/Eastcheap/Cannon Street, City of London
4. “Trafalgar Square roundabout” Whitehall/Charing Cross Road, Westminster
5. Peckham High Street/Rye Lane, TfL/Southwark
6. “Shoreditch Triangle” Great Eastern Street/Curtain Road, TfL/Hackney
7. Kingsland High Street/Ridley Road, TfL/Hackney
8. “Tooting” Tooting High Street/Garratt Lane, TfL/Wandsworth
9. “St Pancras” Euston Road/Pancras Road, TfL/Camden
10. Peckham High Street/Peckham Hill Street, TfL/Southwark
(Where TfL is listed alongside a borough, then the junction is at least partially on TfL’s TLRN or ‘red route’ network)
