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Scores of cyclists gathered for a “die-in” tonight at a busy road junction after the death of 32-year-old Lucia Ciccioli who was hit by a truck in south London.

Campaigners staged the vigil on Lavender Hill in Battersea where the Italian waitress was killed as she cycled to work at her new restaurant job a week ago.

Campaign group Stop Killing Cyclists organised the huge gathering at the spot where Ms Ciccioli, who had lived in London for four years, died.

Cyclists and road safety campaigners met at the junction of Lavender Hill and Elspeth Road from 5.30pm.

Ms Ciccioli was the seventh person to die cycling in London this year, the sixth in a road collision and the second involving a HGV.

A 21-year-old man became the third cyclist to die after being hit by a HGV in the capital today. He was struck outside Knightsbridge Tube station in central London and died at the scene.

The driver of the lorry involved in the collision which killed Miss Ciccioli stopped at the scene of the crash and was not arrested.

Speaking after her death, her father Davide said: “We are destroyed. We still can’t comprehend what has happened, we don’t believe it.”

He said Miss Ciccioli was working for a chain of Vietnamese restaurants and had recently been promoted.

He added: “She was happy in her new job. She was enthusiastic about it and when I spoke to her for the last time on Sunday she told me how happy she was.

“She had told me she should give up the bicycle for a little while, seeing as she was always moving around town and because her new job was 12 kilometres (7 miles) from home so she had to get there by train.

“I don’t know why she had decided to take it (the bike) again.”

The Stop Killing Cyclists group held a similar protest earlier this month in Camden High Street following the death of a 79-year-old pedestrian.