Urgent safety measures are set to be introduced on a Croydon road following the death of cyclist there last month.

Croydon Council said it would “urgently” look into improving safety in St James’s Road after 25-year-old Magda Tadaj was struck by a lorry while cycling on May 23.

Ms Tadaj, who was from Poland but lived in Streatham, was pronounced dead at the scene at about 1.30pm after suffering multiple injuries.

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Following the death Cllr Stuart King, cabinet member for transport and environment, held talks with cyclists about ways to improve safety on the road, which campaigners have said is a “very poor design”.

Safety on the road was also discussed at the Croydon cycle forum last night.

Cllr King today said the council has “limited” options available to it at the moment but that “all stretches of road are a priority”

He said: “There are still limitations as to what we can do in the absence of both the police report and coroner’s report [into Ms Tadaj’s death].

“We have instructed that we refresh the faded carriage way markings and yellow boxes throughout that road corridor.

“We have also instituted a review of the heavy goods vehicle limit signage on approaches to the road so that we can be confident that drivers of heavy goods vehicles can see clearly at a very early stage what the limit is for that bridge.

“We have just finished the consultation on 20 mile per hour zones in the north east part of Croydon and St James’s Road was proposed to remain a 30 mile per hour limit.

“But what we can do is give consideration to a very localised 20 mile per hour restriction to that part of the bridge to further reduce the speed of traffic and hopefully increase safety.”

Cllr King added: “There are a range of medium to longer term solutions that will need to be looked at once we have the specific details of what happened, which does require the police report.

“All stretches of road are priorities for us, in particular if there has been a fatality or serious accident.”

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Austen Cooper, from the Croydon Cycling campaign, said after the death of Ms Tadaj death that the design of the road needed to be “reviewed urgently”.

He said: “The painted cycle lane disappears as the road starts to narrow, effectively diverting the unwary cyclists into the nearside of vehicles travelling alongside or just behind.

“This is very poor design, and needs to be reviewed urgently.

“Options for change in the short-term include a ban on overtaking along the whole length of the bridge, replacing the narrow, disappearing cycle lane with one putting cyclists in the so-called ’primary position’ - the middle of the lane - and introducing a 20mph limit there.”

Following Ms Tajda’s death, police arrested a 48-year-old lorry driver on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and failing to stop at the scene.

The driver, who is understood to have been transporting goods to a nearby builder’s merchant at the time of the collision, was bailed to a date in mid-September.

Last week an 81-year-old woman died after being knocked down by a motorbike in the same road.

The pensioner had been fighting for life in hospital after being struck in St James's Road at 3.40pm on June 5.

Anyone who witnessed either of the crashes or the aftermath is asked to call the Metropolitan Police's roads and transport unit on 020 8285 1574.