After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
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The language is still not right here from Greater Manchester Police.
"the woman collided with the driver of a black Mercedes C220"
She didn't collide with the driver. She collided with the car which was being driven. Despite the chat on here about not speculating, I'd prefer to see "a black car which was being driven along ...road collided with a female riding a bicycle..."
Also, the driven vehicle collided with her, which is the way it is worded from the GMP tweet where the rewording attempt from Road.cc seems to indicate she collided with the driven vehicle.
Comments were locked on the Audi story so I strongly urge that we do not speculate on anything on that here. However I do also urge people follow the link listed early in the original MEN story that leads to a live blog of sorts, and particularly look at the pictures at 1901 and the one at the bottom.
As mentioned, no speculation to be posted here but at least we can now add get well wishes to the cyclists involved in that and I hope the seriously injured cyclist recovers to a good quality of life.
Trying to figure out why the brand of motor vehicle is important to the story? The vehicle manufacturer always seem to be mentioned in these stories, why is that? Seems about as relevant as the colour of the driver's skin, no?
Surely the focus should be the driver, or the weather conditions and such?
Brand and make are there as Police are asking for further evidence from people who saw the model and make being driver. A vehicle description of 4 wheels and 4 doors might not be as distinctive.
Then why do they not mention the colour and model?
They did - "a black Mercedes C220"
just had a look on google maps, it certainly is a major road. My sincere condolences to her family and friends. I hope for more effective protective road furniture and better planning, for the safety of all vulnerable road users. Far too many people are being killed and injured on the roads
It's a major road only in so far it's a four digit A road. But it looks to be a 30mph limit in a built up area with advanced cycle boxes at the traffic lights, so definately somewhere you should expect cyclists.
https://goo.gl/maps/NDnB1e3HB469fvuP7
Happened on a short section where there's an example of poor cycling infrastructure. A short dropped kerb to get onto a shared path, something that could easily be missed if cycling in traffic and not suitable if cycling at road bike speeds. It also looks like a route choice for visiting Ikea.
Agreed. Also just had a look on Google and the current layout seems to tick pretty much every "why don't cyclists use cycle lanes" box. The current cycling provision seems to consist exclusively of shared-use paths, often taking a convoluted route, with numerous crossings at side roads and slip roads (and indeed crossing completely from one side of the road to the other on more than one occassion), and frequently obstructed with road signs, lights, temporary signs etc.
Motorists on the other hand get two lanes in each direction following a nice, straight, obvious route with minimal junctions.