Mary Bowers

Mary Bowers is a journalist for The Times newspaper in the United Kingdom. She was seriously injured and left with severe brain damage after being crushed by a lorry on 4 November 2011, and her case became the focal point for The Times Cities Fit For Cycling campaign.

Career Born in 1984, Bowers attended Queens' College, Cambridge, where she was editor of the Varsity student newspaper. After she attained a degree in history, she studied journalism as an O'Hara-Forster scholar at Columbia University, New York. Some of her more noted articles are about the London riots and the Julian Assange extradition hearings, as well as covering major music festivals such as Bestival, Latitude, and the Glastonbury Festival.

Bowers also had a keen interest in folk music, and performed with a guitar as part of Mary Bowers & The Wrong Collective, as well as playing as a solo musician at smaller folk music events in London. Emergency services arrived at the scene within three minutes of the incident, and Bowers was still conscious at the time.

Beiu was found guilty by a jury of careless driving, and was fined £2,700 and banned from driving for eight months.