Littlest Greenroofer and I were heading to the top of Craiglockhart Hill through Craighouse campus this afternoon so that he could balance-bike down through the wood. There was a lot of black ice about. Towards the top of the hill inside Craighouse we came across an ambulance recovering a woman* who appeared to have come off her bike on the icy road inside Craighouse. She was conscious, but was being stretchered off and was on gas of some kind.
Littlest Greenroofer was delighted: it was his first "real ambulance rescue" (as he described it), and I had to literally drag him away from peering inside the ambulance. I felt for the woman: she wouldn't have had much chance to avoid coming off on slick ice on a steep downhill with hairpin bends and an adverse camber. Her male companion seemed uninjured, but was very lucky.
I hope she recovers completely and is back on her bike soon.
*I'm struggling for an appropriate adjective here. She was almost certainly of pensionable age, but I don't reckon it's fair to describe anyone who's got a bike to the top of Craiglockhart Hill as 'elderly' or 'old'.
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