http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Cyclist killed in lorry collision in Sutherland en Mon, 18 May 2026 17:23:47 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-165220 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:41:49 +0000 cb 165220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I assume she was on one of the events mentioned in this thread:</p> <p><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13395">http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13395</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-165217 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:06:42 +0000 Min 165217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yet another death, near Loch Earn at the weekend I am sorry to say.</p> <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-29202534" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-29202534</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164612 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 23:02:06 +0000 Tulyar 164612@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Main route is via Tongue as Strathnaver route is very narrow and twisting, especially at Lairg end Lairg-Tongue and then coastal route.</p> <p>Has anyone details of whose truck it was, what was being transported?</p> <p>West Coast (ie Kinlochbervie Southwards) you do get fish traffic - and that can be hairy - perishables often transshipped at Motherwell or all the way to European markets and time sensitive, but road South of Durness is generally 2-lane for much of distance including incredibly expensive ferry replacement at Kylesku - heavily promoted when it opened by signs on A9 at Inverness "Kylesku Bridge Now Open - 90 miles" </p> <p>Not so much traffic along North Coast until you reach Reay, and close in on Thurso. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164560 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 11:45:33 +0000 DaveC 164560@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Certainly south of Bettyhill towards Lairg the comercial vehicles race around those single track roads! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164557 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:51:17 +0000 fimm 164557@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The minute I saw the original article I thought it was likely to be a LEJoG/JoGLE cyclist. There's obvious parallels with the deaths of <a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10625">Andrew McMenigall and Toby Wallace</a> who were also killed by a lorry driver, albeit on a very different stretch of road.</p> <p>I cycled round there this spring, though I don't know if I covered the exact bit of road under discussion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164550 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 10:18:56 +0000 DaveC 164550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Very sad. I cycled through Bettyhill at 2:30am in late July. We saw one vehicle, twice. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164548 Tue, 09 Sep 2014 09:52:17 +0000 Min 164548@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-29118934">She has been named today</a>.</p> <p>Horrible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164465 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:31:24 +0000 kaputnik 164465@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've cycled through Bettyhill. Sleepy hollow and an "A road" really only in name and the sense it's the main (only) road along the north coast. It's hard to get your head round how that this of terrible thing happens in a place like that . </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164463 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 10:23:21 +0000 ARobComp 164463@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've ridden that stretch a couple times. Can't remember it being any worse than much of the rest of the north but certainly remember some close passes coming towards thurso... </p> <p>Such a shame. Another 59 year old killed on a A road down south this weekend as well. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164457 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:29:13 +0000 sallyhinch 164457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And another cyclist killed yesterday in Aberdeen <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-29105950" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-29105950</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164455 Mon, 08 Sep 2014 09:28:14 +0000 Dave 164455@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>National Cycle Route 1 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164421 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:45:29 +0000 crowriver 164421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Here's the road. <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/0q3Li" rel="nofollow">https://goo.gl/maps/0q3Li</a></p> <p>Lots of blind bends by the looks of it. Terrible shame. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=13403#post-164420 Sun, 07 Sep 2014 14:33:55 +0000 slowcoach 164420@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sad news <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-29099398" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-29099398</a> </p>