The grieving father of a student nurse killed as she cycled to university is launching a safety campaign at the spot where she died.

Robin Webb, of Maldon Road, Colchester, is organising a protest at the London road junction where his 21-year-old daughter Elizabeth was involved in a collision with a 38-tonne lorry.

Known to her friends as Lizzie, the former pupil of St James' Church of England Primary School and Philip Morant School, had been training as a nurse at St Bartholemew School of Nursing since March.

Mr Webb said: "She was cycling from the nurses' home in Bow to hand in some project work when a lorry turned left into her and killed her outright."

Mr Webb said if she had been in front of the lorry rather than at the side the accident would not have happened.

"A simple advanced stop line for cyclists at this junction like the ones put in at Middlebrough would have saved Elizabeth's life," he said. "The lorry driver never saw her because large vehicles like that have huge blind spots.

"Why does the law allow vehicles on the road that to gather at the Bow Road and Burdett Road junction outside Mile End tube station in remembrance of his daughter and to call for improved road safety measures. "All the other student nurses including her sister Angela have to cycle that route every day. A cyclist beside a lorry is invisible, but in front of it the driver can see them," Mr Webb said.

Lizzie had a room next to her sister at the nurses home and the pair were inseparable. She was one of five children - including twin sister Rosemary.

"After the loss of my wife three years ago from cancer her death is devastating," Mr Webb said.

"Elizabeth was a lovely girl, full of fun and with a tremendous zest for life, but with such a sense of compassion and love for people and animals that those around her warmed to her instinctively.

Elizabeth was buried next to her mother at All Saints' Church, Shrub End, on October 4.

"She had only been at Barts for six months but virtually the whole course came to her funeral," Mr Webb said.

"She was a gifted sculptress and thought about art school but in the end her compassion and feelings led her into nursing."

If you would like to join Mr Webb in demonstrating, meet outside Mile End tube station at 7pm on Friday, October 29.

Happier times - Robin Webb with his daughters Rosemary and Elizabeth and his late wife Therese.

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