A physiotherapist has been killed in a cycling accident yards from the hospital where she worked, amid increasing calls to ban lorries from city streets.

Esther Hartsilver, 32, who worked at King’s College Hospital in Camberwell, south London, was severely injured in the crash on Thursday morning and died later that day.

She was the sixth cyclist to be fatally injured in an accident with an HGV on London’s roads so far this year. Her bicycle is believed to have had a collision with a Co-operative Food lorry near a busy junction on Denmark Hill, 100 yards from the hospital. She was taken to King’s by ambulance but doctors were unable to save her.

Yesterday, the hospital paid tribute to Ms Hartsilver, saying “we have