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Police at the scene of the accident where Russell Phillip Frankum died Thursday.
A dead bicyclist at a Christchurch “nightmare” intersection crossed without a green light.
Russell Phillip Frankum, in his 50s, was biking down Brougham St, near the end of the town of Christchurch Southern Motorway, just before 8 p.m. last Thursday, when he was hit by a pickup truck and died.
Stuff understands that Frankum did not have a green light when he crossed the light-controlled crossing on Brougham St near Collins St. The crossing is for pedestrians and bicyclists.
The driver of the van had a green light Stuff understands. It is understood that the van had left the motorway and was in a 60 km / h zone when it collided with the cyclist.
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A witness to the crash previously said the crossing was a “kind of nightmare.”
Frankum’s father, Michael Frankum, said The star newspaper his son was “meters” from home. He wanted to know all the facts before passing judgment, but was sorry that the driver of the van “had to live with this.”
Inspector Greg Cottam, Canterbury’s road safety manager, declined to comment on the cause of the accident as it was still under investigation, but urged all road users to be careful at intersections.
Michael Hayward / Stuff
Students from nearby Addington School using the intersection where the bicyclist was hit by a pickup truck.
“The weather is going from spring to summer, we will see more cyclists and people on the roads, and we need all road users to watch out for themselves and comply with stop signs and red lights to keep all road users safe. . “
Addington School’s board chairman Jo Robertson previously said the school had spent years lobbying the New Zealand Transportation Agency (NZTA), Christchurch City Council and local MPs to add safety measures to the intersection. from Brougham and Collins streets.
The school met with the Spreydon-Cashmere Community Board, representatives from the NZTA, a road safety advocate, and students and parents two days before Frankum was killed.
“We said the intersection is really dangerous and someone will be injured or killed in it,” Robertson said.
“I feel like we finally got some traction this week, but it’s too late.”
Nineteen more have died on Canterbury roads so far this year, 13 fewer than at the same time last year, according to NZTA data.
At least 27 other crashes have occurred on the stretch of Brougham St where it intersects Simeon and Collins streets since January 2000.
Two resulted in serious injuries, eight caused moderate injuries, and 17 involved no injuries.
Russell Frankum leaves behind three children, according to a death notice published in The press.
