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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Ross Lydall

Family's lives 'completely torn apart' by cyclist's hit-and-run death

The devastating harm caused by dangerous drivers has been laid bare as the family of a young London mother told how their lives had been “completely torn apart” by her death in a hit-and-run crash.

Gao Gao, a 36-year-old mother of two and “brilliant” professional fundraiser raising millions for research into dementia, suffered extensive multiple traumatic injuries when she was hit by a driver speeding at almost 50mph in a 20mph residential street in Hackney as she cycled home.

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