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Cyclist dies after collision near Keynsham; police appeal for witnesses

Information needed about crash on June 11

A cyclist in his 20s has died after a collision with a car near Keynsham, Somerset last week. Police are appealing for witnesses.

The man was airlifted to Bristol’s Southmead Hospital following a collision with a Ford Fusion on Middlepiece Lane at Burnett on Wednesday June 11, according to Avon and Somerset Police.

He died of his injuries on Sunday June 15.

Police are investigating the collision and would like to hear from anyone who can help them.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Collision Investigation Unit on 101.

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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