I know what Clarion means. These deaths are not always about cyclists who cycle alongside lorries at traffic lights, although admittedly many do this in London, but that is what most of the questions are about. And obviously don't take into account multi-lane junctions etc.
I tend to hang back behind lorries at lights, but I've still been almost left-hooked by one and it was only the fact that I was wondering if he was about to do something stupid that saved me (I started to brake as soon as he pulled alongside, so he could get past asap - I don't like having lorries alongside me). I got to see the wheels of the lorry roll over the bit of road I would have been cycling on a few seconds later, had I not braked hard. If I'd been killed, it would have been nothing to do with the fact that I'm a woman, more the fact that the driver appeared to have his head up his @rse.