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Dorothy Elder in a photo from her Facebook pages |
Cyclist in bus collision dies
Friends mourn fashion student fatally injured two weeks ago
A YOUNG cyclist has lost her fight for life two weeks after being injured in a collision with a bus in Holborn.
Stylish fashion student Dorothy Elder, 23, suffered a crushed pelvis in a collision with a bus at the junction of Theobald’s Road and Southampton Row on Wednesday November 12.
She was rushed to University College London Hospital where her condition was described as “critical but stable”.
Despite round-the-clock care, Ms Elder’s condition worsened and coroner’s officials said yesterday (Wednesday) that she died on Sunday.
An inquest was opened and adjourned at St Pancras Coroner’s Court. It will resume only once police investigators have had more time to piece together how the tragedy unfolded. They will consult CCTV footage and interview eye-witnesses. No arrests have been made.
Ms Elder, originally from Plymouth, was living in Whitechapel and studying fashion at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, close to the scene of the collision.
Stunned friends have left messages on her Facebook pages, which are filled with photos of her enjoying nights out with fellow students.
“Thank you for being the most amazing and bestest and wondrous lady in the whole wide world. The lady was beautiful both inside and outside,” said one of a series of messages.
A big music fan, she was recently snapped by photographers for entertainment magazine Time Out while at a rockabilly music gig in Shoreditch.
In the wake of several other recent cyclist deaths in the south of the borough – including librarian Wendy Gay in Euston Road and jeweller Emma Foa in King’s Cross – campaigners have called for road safety improvements.
The inquest into Ms Elder’s death is expected to be resumed in June. |
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