http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Hit and run Liberton en Mon, 18 May 2026 19:28:26 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149551 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:52:23 +0000 stiltskin 149551@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em> How can you not see someone who has travelled slowly from the right, straight across your line of vision, and is now directly in front of you as you pull out?</em><br /> I commute that route. People roll up to the line and look further down the road towards Western Corner for a car 100 yards away. ie they are looking behind where the cyclist is. Definitely a junction where I assume that cars won't 'see' me by virtue of not looking in the right place for a bike. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149538 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:58:24 +0000 doug5_10 149538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Passed that incident on Wed morning just as he was getting into the ambulance, under his own steam, so hopefully nothing too serious. His rear wheel was completely pringled, so must have been hit completely side on rather than being pulled out on. How can you not see someone who has travelled slowly from the right, straight across your line of vision, and is now directly in front of you as you pull out? I commute along the A8 once or twice a week (used to be every day) and have to say there are much worse parts of my journey. Having the bus lane all to yourself makes for a pretty non-eventful trip all the way from Wester Coates to Maybury </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149525 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:16:19 +0000 paul.mag 149525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Best wishes to all the cyclists involved, and car drivers wonder why I'm paranoid! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149518 Fri, 18 Apr 2014 09:46:11 +0000 kaputnik 149518@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes the buslane gets used as a "merging in" lane; cars scoot round the corner without a proper stop-look-manoeuvre, then roll slowly down the lane until a gap appears. </p> <p>Another one of the reasons I avoid the A8 wherever possible </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149503 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:48:57 +0000 Stickman 149503@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"I'm sure I've heard of other similar incidents at the same spot - to me it is a junction whose alignment should be altered to reduce the turning radius."</p> <p>Agreed. Good idea. The often "empty" bus lane invites people to push out. </p> <p>Hope all the cyclists concerned are ok. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149501 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 21:17:20 +0000 neddie 149501@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Hank.</p> <p>Yes, that is a bad junction. A colleague of mine got knocked off there only a few months ago by a van driver. The van was exiting Balgreen, turning left, and failed to look, as my colleague was travelling west on Corstorphine Rd.</p> <p>Police did nothing. Van driver later claimed my colleague had 'jumped' off the pavement. A likely story... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149499 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 20:41:34 +0000 HankChief 149499@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In other bad news for cyclists...</p> <p>There was another cyclist knocked off their bike at the Balgreen Road junction with Corstorphine Road yesterday morning. </p> <p>Only got the details second hand this morning but sounds again like a driver exiting Balgreen Road and only looking for cars to their right and not noticing the slow moving cyclist in front of them.</p> <p>I'm sure I've heard of other similar incidents at the same spot - to me it is a junction whose alignment should be altered to reduce the turning radius.</p> <p>Take care out their folks... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149488 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 18:05:41 +0000 crowriver 149488@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Unless of course there were witnesses. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149485 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:04:51 +0000 I were right about that saddle 149485@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Just up the road from ours. Not much hope of catching the driver though if all they have is 'silver or blue'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149484 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:01:45 +0000 neddie 149484@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wishing her a speedy recovery.</p> <p><em>A CYCLIST has been treated in hospital after being struck by a car in a hit and run</em></p> <p>It seems the language is a bit more in favour of the cyclist when it is a hit and run. Better than:</p> <p><em>A cyclist has died after colliding with a small van</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=12615#post-149480 Thu, 17 Apr 2014 16:51:01 +0000 SRD 149480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cyclist-in-hospital-after-hit-and-run-1-3380333" rel="nofollow">http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/cyclist-in-hospital-after-hit-and-run-1-3380333</a> </p>