Cycling home from a family dinner, the cyclist and mother of two snapped this selfie and crashed moments later. She would be dead within six days.
The family of a woman who died from injuries sustained in crash off her bike after taking a selfie has urged other cyclists to learn from her death.
Carmen Greenway (41) had cycled to a pub close to her home with a number of relatives to have a celebratory dinner for her mother’s birthday.
However, on the journey home she was taking selfies, with those she was with just behind her.
Moments after capturing her last selfie she hit a bumpy patch of road and fell from her bike.
Sadly she sustained a fractured skull and died after suffering cardiac arrest six days later.
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She was less than 100 metres from her home at the time and her mother was one of those cycling just behind when the fatal fall occurred on August 18th at Isleworth, west London.
The victim’s husband Rufus Greenway said his wife was a competent cyclist who had regularly snapped selfies without incident while cycling.
He believed had she been wearing a helmet she would be alive today rather than leaving behind her loving family including two sons aged 13 and 4 years.
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Carmen Greenway was a very experienced cyclist and her family his hoping others will take precautions, chiefly wearing a helmet.
Mr Greenway added his deceased wife was from New Zealand where cycling helmets must be worn and he believed the same law should apply in the UK.
"It's an unfortunate accident. If she was wearing a helmet she would still be alive."
And he said while his wife had not been taking a selfie at the exact time of her fall, she had been doing it a moment earlier and regularly did so.
The family released the last selfie Ms Greenway took in a bid to raise safety awareness among cyclists.
"She was not taking it at the moment of the accident," Mr Greenway said of the final selfie, in which his wife was smiling broadly.
"She was 100 metres from our house, one hand on the bars, quite relaxed, and probably had had a drink.
"She cycled that way every weekend and perhaps it's familiarity breeding contempt.
"She was just having a lovely time, happy to be with her mother for her mum's birthday. One second you're happy and then next second it's a train wreck."
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