Only one cyclist was involved in a fatal collision with a truck Monday morning in the city’s west end.

But there were two helmets left lying on the road after the victim was pronounced dead by the coroner and her body taken away in a black van.

An adult’s helmet lay crushed on the road beside the woman’s mangled green bicycle. Beside it sat a smaller helmet, wrapped in a Spiderman design. It had been hanging from the handlebars of the child’s trailer attached to her bike.

Police say the victim, who died at the scene of the collision after suffering massive head injuries and upper body trauma, was a mother and a resident of the area. She was 38.

Both the cyclist and the truck were attempting to turn right onto Dundas St. W. from Sterling Rd. when the truck’s cab clipped the woman and she fell, according to Const. Hugh Smith of Toronto Police Traffic Services. She was thrown beneath the back wheels of the truck.

Paul Leonardo, the manager of an equipment rental store across the street from the collision, was looking out the window when he heard a thump and saw the truck wobble as it turned right onto Dundas St. W.

“I. . . saw something on the ground, and what looked like a bike, and just called 911,” he said.

Emergency responders arrived quickly, he said. “I saw one of the firemen (take) off his jacket. He looked distraught, and sat on the edge of the fire truck,” said Leonardo, adding that other witnesses were holding their heads in their hands.

The truck driver was being questioned, but there was no word Monday on whether charges would be laid. The truck, which belonged to an Etobicoke company, C.W. Henderson Distribution, had a flat sideview mirror on the right side but not a convex mirror, a feature that Smith says many trucks have although it is not required by law.

Police did not identify the victim Monday. Inspectors said her husband arrived on scene earlier and was distraught. It is not known how many children she had.

The woman was the second cycling death in the city this year. Smith also said there are approximately 2,200 to 2,500 non-fatal collisions involving cyclists every year.

Although investigators did not say whether either the cyclist or the truck were at fault in the collision, many bystanders and cyclists who passed by the scene expressed anger and fear.

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Bob Shenton returned to lay a bouquet of flowers at the collision scene after cycling by earlier. “I’m tired of ghost bikes and I’m tired of cyclists getting killed in this city,” he said.

Last month, Ontario’s chief coroner announced the first ever province-wide investigation into cycling deaths.