Me (quoted by Don): ""Typical would be the Chinese student who was crushed to death by a truck that turned left (we drive and cycle on the left here), and the driver didn't see him.""

Don: "Which is precisely why cyclists shouldn't ride up between truck and kerb at the traffic lights.

It is most likely that the driver couldn't (rather than just didn't, which implies negligence) see the cyclist in the majority of such cases."

This is certainly true in Ireland, where trucks are badly designed. In some (most?) European countries passenger-side doors are now transparent, I'm told, and mirrors are convex so that the truck driver can see a cyclist on the offside.

This was how the accident was reported at the time, and this is the ghost bike at the spot where he died.

The consensus in Dublin was that the bridge is dangerous - it's a hump-backed bridge with a bad line of sight, used by many cyclists - and the driver didn't have the right mirror to have a proper view all around.