London’s “most dangerous” junctions have been revealed as road safety campaigners accuse politicians of ignoring their concerns.

The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) has for the second year released a list of the ten intersections in the capital where cyclists face the most danger.

It has named a “junction cluster” in Upper Tooting Road, Tooting, along which cycle route CS7 runs, as being the worst for cyclists.

In total, 11 serious cyclist crashes and 20 slight collisions were recorded between 2019 and 2023 where the road intersects with four other streets, LCC has said.

This is the second year in a row that the campaign group has named this area London’s “most dangerous junction”.

Campaigners claim that despite calls to fix the junction, Wandsworth Council has so far “ignored” their concerns.

These junctions are all managed by TfL, but many of the side roads that feed into Upper Tooting Road are the responsibility of the local authority.

Wandsworth Council has said that it does not consider the four roads in the “cluster” – Ansell Road, Lessingham Avenue, Derinton Road, and Price Close – as having a single junction with Upper Tooting Road.

The local authority added: “Officers at the Council have been working hard with TfL, under whom responsibility for the majority of these junctions fall. This is to ensure safety is improved for everyone using the roads. 

“The council has been in extensive dialogue for many years with both the Wandsworth Cycling Campaign and the London Cycling Campaign discussing road danger and will continue to do so.”

The full list of the most dangerous junctions for cycling according to the LCC is as follows:

  1. Upper Tooting Road cluster (TfL/Wandsworth)
  2. Great Eastern Street/Curtain Road (TfL/Hackney)
  3. Clapham High Street/Lendal Terrace (TfL/Lambeth)
  4. Wandsworth Road/Silverthorne Road (Lambeth)
  5. “Holborn” Southampton Row/Theobalds Road (Camden)
  6. Knightsbridge/Albert Gate/Sloane Street/Brompton Road (TfL/Kensington & Chelsea/Westminster)
  7. Lambeth Road/Kennington Road (Lambeth/Southwark)
  8. Royal College Street/Baynes Street (Camden)
  9. Mitcham Road/Leighton Street (Croydon)
  10. Seven Sisters Road/Blackstock Road/Stroud Green Road (TfL/Hackney/Haringey/Islington)

Across these ten junctions, LCC says there have been five fatal cyclist crashes and almost 50 serious collisions over the last five years.

Tom Fyans, the group’s chief executive, said: “How many more serious injuries and fatalities will it take for politicians to act?

“There are junction designs that are safer and achievable to be found in London and across the UK. Yet too often, the Mayor, TfL and borough leaders continue to utter the same platitudes and more families suffer.”

TfL has said that in 2023 there was a 30% drop in the number of people killed cycling in London when compared against a 2010-14 baseline.

Penny Rees, TfL's head of healthy streets investment, said: “Our deepest sympathies are with all of those impacted by loss of life and injuries on the transport network.

“We are committed to making life-saving changes at some of the capital's most dangerous and intimidating junctions, as part of our £150m per year safe and healthy streets funding.

“We have so far completed work at 45 ‘safer junctions’ across London, and recently started works at Lambeth Bridge and Battersea Bridge.

“We also continue to work on designs for a significant number of further locations alongside London boroughs, and have made an additional £50 million available to them over the next three years to improve safety on their local road networks.”