Police appeal after teen cyclist killed in Scotland

I've cycled this road a few times out of work too .... hit me hard this has, especially the picture shown above.....

my thoughts are with the family.......

unfortunatley - there are lots of dangerous roads in Moray / Highlands - roads that are A roads but not dual laned, or marked,  yet slightly wider than a single lane...

lots of fast cars

lots of blind bends

lots of inaction too by the councils

sorry to turn this into a rant but  IMHO up here in Highlands / Moray - cycle lanes are only built to attract tourists to tourist areas (loch ness for example) , and so regular local cyclists and commuters get nothing - my commute into inverness is typical of many that i hear - no infrastructure for getting any satellite towns safely into a town center / city - we suffer from unlight, potted rat-run A roads...

Of course we get the politicians photo opportunity of opening XX millions of cycle way in the City and how this is the start of a "cycle revolution", yet its mostly pink painted lanes filled with parked cars and give way's at every junction making it a nonsense.

Every survey suggests more people would cycle if they felt the roads were safer - so why are we not actually doing this!

I assume he was wearing helmet, lights and high-viz, otherwise the police would have probably managed to squeeze some victim-blaming into their statement.

So without any witness, we're probably going to have a classic "the sun was in my eyes, he came from nowhere, he swerved, I was forced to run him over because I was in a rush, my life is ruined it keeps me awake at night" nonsense that sees the perpertrators walk away

Here is the other picture, which tells its own story.  

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeB0wkaWwAARcXV.jpg

This is sad and really hit home with me, from age 12 onwards, I used to use this road on a regular training loop I had, right up until I moved from the area at 19. It was a dangerous road at the best of times back then, no idea what it's like now, because it was a back road, cars used to fly round the corners with little regard to what was around the bend to them. I hope this isn't the case here.