Parents’ heartbreak after waitress is killed cycling to new job in London
Lucia Ciccioli was knocked down on Lavender Hill in Battersea during rush hour on Monday
A CYCLIST killed by a lorry was believed to be making her way to a new job in a restaurant when she was knocked down.
Today the parents of Lucia Ciccioli paid tribute to their “beautiful” daughter saying her death had left them “destroyed”.
Miss Ciccioli’s father Davide told the : “We are destroyed. We still can’t comprehend what has happened, we don’t believe it.”
He said the keen cyclist had recently been promoted at the restaurant she worked at.
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He added: “She was happy in her new job. She was enthusiastic about it and when I spoke to her for the last time on Sunday she told me how happy she was.
“She had told me she should give up the bicycle for a little while, seeing as she was always moving around town and because her new job was 12 kilometres from home so she had to get there by train.
“I don’t know why she had decided to take it (the bike) again.”
Friends Sam Ladjemi said: “She was warned about cycling in London but she’s quite a headstrong person.”
On Facebook Felipe Luis wrote: “So beautiful, so gentle, so kind, always smiling and bringing happiness to everyone around you, so full of life.
“The world has lost one of the most beautiful soul ever."
Lucia was the seventh person to die cycling in London this year, the sixth in a road collision and the second involving a HGV.
The driver of the lorry involved in the collision stopped at the scene of the crash and was not arrested.
The incident is being investigated by police.
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