Nine cyclists have died after collisions with HGVs in London this year

Large lorries must be banned from British cities at rush hour, according to Chris Boardman, the former Olympic champion, who spoke out after a cyclist was killed by an HGV yesterday – the sixth to die in London in two weeks.

A man in his 60s was crushed by a lorry on Camberwell Road at lunch-time, the 14th to be killed in the capital this year and the ninth by an HGV.

In the past four years, 30 cyclists have been crushed to death by lorries in London alone and, last year, 25 cyclists were killed by HGVs across Britain.

Boardman, who won an Olympic cycling gold in Barcelona in 1992, helped Boris Johnson launch the Mayor’s Cycling Vision in March this year, but feels