The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) unveiled its updated Dangerous Junctions mapping today for Road Safety Week 2025.
This highlights London’s most perilous spots for cycling, walking, and wheeling, using five years of emergency services data, including newly-released 2024 data.
10 notorious junctions with fatal collisions have been specifically followed up, with the LCC noting the “inaction” that followed in many cases.
This has prompted a call to action, urging the Mayor of London, Transport for London (TfL), and local councils to act faster to prevent future fatal collisions at these known danger spots.
Tom Fyans, chief executive of the London Cycling Campaign, said: “All too often the friends and family of those killed at a notorious collision hot spot face a shrug of the shoulders from TfL, the police, and our local councils.
“We shouldn’t have to keep demanding action, protesting, wrestling change from uncaring authorities after yet another cycling fatality.
“The Mayor of London has committed to ending serious collisions on our roads.
“It’s time for him to take far bolder measures to do so.”
The LCC has also launched a new email campaign, allowing the public to demand more action from the Mayor of London, the police, TfL, and councils.
They want a coherent and rapid response to every road fatality, aiming to remove the causes of such collisions to prevent them from happening again.
The LCC claims it has heard from council and TfL officers that TfL has often avoided or delayed changes to many notorious junctions due to balancing collision number reductions against impacts to bus journey times.
The LCC views this ‘balancing’ as “ludicrous and lethal”, given the ignored problem of too many cars.
It suggests TfL could improve both bus journey times and road safety by separating buses from private motor vehicles using bus ‘priority’ measures, thereby reducing capacity for private motor traffic.
The LCC’s Dangerous Junctions campaign and map can be viewed at lcc.org.uk/junctions.
Another part of the campaign is the release of an updated interactive map, marking London’s most dangerous junctions for walking, wheeling, and cycling.
Using the latest five years of emergency services data, the map highlights the most dangerous junctions by borough.
For the third consecutive year, the Upper Tooting Road cluster of rat runs in Wandsworth has been named the most dangerous junction for cycling.
A high number of cyclists are seriously or slightly injured here each year, with little or no action from Wandsworth Council or TfL.
The second most dangerous junction is Great Eastern Street and Curtain Road in Hackney, followed by Clapham High Street and Gauden Road in Lambeth.
New entries to this year’s top ten include the Cycleway C9 junction of King Street and Weltje Road, the West Hill junction, and Royal College Street and Baynes Street.
The top ten most dangerous junctions for cycling in London for 2025, according to the LCC, are:
1. Upper Tooting Road ‘cluster’ around Ansell Road, Derinton Road, Lessingham Avenue, Wandsworth
2. Great Eastern Street and Curtain Road, Hackney
3. Clapham High Street and Gauden Road, Lambeth
4. Knightsbridge/Sloane Street/Albert Gate, Kensington & Chelsea/Westminster
5. King Street and Weltje Road, Hammersmith & Fulham
6. Clerkenwell Road and Farringdon Road, Camden/Islington
7. Southampton Row and Theobald’s Road (Holborn), Camden
8. Balham High Road and Ramsden Road, Wandsworth
9. West Hill and Lytton Grove, Wandsworth
10. Royal College Street and Baynes Street, Camden
Helen Cansick, TfL Head of Healthy Streets Investment Planning, said: “Our deepest sympathies are with everyone impacted by loss of life and injuries on the transport network, and we are committed to making life-saving changes at some of the capital’s most dangerous and intimidating junctions.
“Our Safe and Healthy Streets funding dedicates more than £150m to improving London’s roads for people cycling, walking and accessing public transport, over half of which is invested through London’s boroughs.
“We have so far completed work at 46 Safer Junctions across London, including recently completed works at Battersea Bridge. Our new Safer Streets programme also offers up to £50m over the next four years to help boroughs tackle the worst safety locations in their communities.
“We welcome this research and will continue working closely with campaigners, councils and local communities across the capital to improve road safety and end the devastation caused by collisions.”
