A coroner has warned that there can be “devastating consequences” for cyclists who ride through red lights, concluding it was likely to have caused the death of a young woman last year.

Venera Minakhmetova, 24, died when she was struck by a lorry carrying concrete in London on November 13 last year. Police said they had studied the traffic signals and GPS data from the HGV and concluded it was “most likely” she had ignored a red light.

The Russian computer consultant was the third cyclist to die at the notorious Bow roundabout in East London in just two years.

Mary Hassell, a coroner who has overseen inquests into the deaths of several cyclists in recent months, said at Poplar coroner’s court yesterday: “I conclude