Your readers may remember our daughter, Rachel Barker, aged 30, was killed near Oxford station bridge on May 11, 2000.

One comment in James Styring's article, Simple rules when trucks are lurking (On Yer Bike, Oxford Mail, April 22) is hard to understand - "Never cycle between a truck or a bus and the kerb". After all, that's where the cycle lane is.

That's where Rachel was, in the right place, wearing a helmet (but not body armour) and doing all the right things because she was a very experienced cyclist.

We don't drive so all our children cycled from an early age. We know there's a blind spot which prevents drivers from seeing what's to their left.

But in our case, presumably, the driver of the tipper truck had been passing cyclists along Botley Road, so should have been well aware of them.

Also, it is usual for cyclists to try to reach the front of the queue so that they can be seen, isn't it?

Maybe, that's what Rachel was trying to do, but sadly was crushed before she could make it.

That wasn't the first accident she had had in that spot.

Two years before her death, she had been knocked over in the same spot but by a car and the female driver apologised, assumed all responsibility and paid for the bicycle repair.

Rachel suffered leg damage and needed a tetanus injection and afterwards, was always very wary of that spot.

Since Rachel's death, Lisa Harker almost lost her life - she did lose her unborn baby.

There was a lot of publicity, we joined forces, have appeared on local television and radio, yet that place is still dangerous.

I have campaigned for a THINK BIKE sign to be erected, but no-one has taken any notice.

Bournemouth has one which I photographed, had copied and distributed to various people I thought might help, but still no-one thinks it's a good idea.

Remember the cycle lane ends at that point - where do cyclists have to disappear to?

I think a sign at eye level, warning drivers to think about cyclists, is the answer, but what a difficult, uphill struggle it is to get support. We have lost the light of our life, but no-one seems to care one iota about preventing another tragedy.

I truly think that a few of these signs, erected where cycle lanes come to an end and cyclists are once again mingling with the traffic, would alert truck drivers and thus prevent accidents.

Doesn't everyone agree?

West Oxford members of Cyclox did agree once, but the campaign just fizzled out and we are left to bear our grief and loss, which gets no easier.

How many deaths on Oxford's roads does it take . . .?

DOREEN BARKER Montagu Road Botley Oxford