http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Potential hit and run (rider has died) en Sun, 17 May 2026 23:31:14 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-311024 Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:35:14 +0000 Wilmington's Cow 311024@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>'Culpable homicide' in Scotland (slightly different offence, but manslaughter is south of the border).</p> <p>Can certainly be committed 'involuntarily'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-311015 Fri, 19 Jul 2019 13:06:27 +0000 acsimpson 311015@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It should be no different to manslaughter using any other unlicensed equipment. However I have long since stopped expecting reasonably sentencing for motor vehicle crime. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-311008 Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:44:30 +0000 EdinburghCycleCam 311008@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If he's disqualified and has no insurance, surely that has to mean a reasonable prison sentence? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310990 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:26:42 +0000 LivM 310990@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"He was also charged with driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and attempting to pervert the course of justice"</p> <p>Not your ordinary "otherwise law-abiding driver" this time.</p> <p>BBC News - Man appears in court over cyclist 'hit-and-run' in Fife<br /> <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49030725" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-49030725</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310941 Thu, 18 Jul 2019 13:23:41 +0000 Frenchy 310941@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"A 74-year-old man has been charged in connection with the death of a cyclist after an alleged hit and run incident in Fife."</p> <p><a href="https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/man-74-charged-after-hit-and-run-incident-which-killed-fife-cyclist-1-4967138" rel="nofollow">https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/man-74-charged-after-hit-and-run-incident-which-killed-fife-cyclist-1-4967138</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310481 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 10:15:55 +0000 jonty 310481@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Think Curriehill Road is mostly NSL is it not? A71 to the north is 50 and horrrrible. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310480 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 09:58:51 +0000 Ed1 310480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I hate riding on national speed limit roads. Haunted by visions of this kind of thing."</p> <p>I think it depends on the road warriston farm road is national speed limit but feels safer than curriehill road which is a 50 MPH </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310475 Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:44:12 +0000 paulmilne 310475@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not cycled but driven that stretch of road many times as we have friends in Pittenweem. Tragedy strikes, again. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310462 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:41:39 +0000 gembo 310462@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>How terrible </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310460 Wed, 10 Jul 2019 17:30:06 +0000 stiltskin 310460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sadly, the cyclist has died. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310390 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:27:07 +0000 gembo 310390@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes @IWRATS, plus these roads are very narrow or national speed limits, they are more like country lanes </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310388 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:17:28 +0000 I were right about that saddle 310388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I <em>hate</em> riding on national speed limit roads. Haunted by visions of this kind of thing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310386 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 18:09:31 +0000 gembo 310386@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>STV has the cyclist fighting for his life. Not good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310379 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:29:59 +0000 Tulyar 310379@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Significant that Police are asking about silver Vauxhall with damaged bodywork, presumably they have evidence to indicate such a vehicle suffered damage at/near this location &amp; left paint at/near site of incident. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310377 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:47:21 +0000 gembo 310377@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow we were on that road a couple of hours earlier en route to spot in Anster where the stout gaberlunzie woman carried James V over the Dreel Burn.</p> <p>We went back via the right turn after the strawberry farm that makes a theological and geometric point about not opening on a Sunday.</p> <p>I hope the cyclist is ok, we saw a number of cyclists on the narrow east Neuk roads in the sun earlier. Was gloomier later but still no way a driver would not know they had struck a cyclist </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=19715#post-310361 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:45:41 +0000 Baldcyclist 310361@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-48922959" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-48922959</a> </p>