5083 x 3453 px | 43 x 29,2 cm | 16,9 x 11,5 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
29 luglio 2009
Ubicazione:
junction of Middleton Road and Hackney Road London UK
Altre informazioni:
In 2003, inspired by a similar project in St Louis Missouri, London cyclists keen to commemorate their fallen comrades with the introduction of ghost bikes. The bikes, painted white, are installed by friends or family and chained up at the location where the cyclist was killed. They serve as a memorial and a reminder of the dangers of city cycling. Spectral in appearance, they are a symbol of the transcience of our existence. A speeding cyclist bypasses the ghost bike of Anthony ‘Smudge’ Smith on the junction of Middleton Road and Kingsland road in Hackney. He was killed on 21 April 2008, aged 37, in a collision with a truck. Paramedics were sent to the scene, but Anthony sustained severe head injuries and was dead by the time they arrived. In a tragic irony, the truck driver and Anthony had been waved on by police officers carrying out a road-safety campaign moments before the collision.
