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Hit and run Liberton
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Wishing her a speedy recovery.
A CYCLIST has been treated in hospital after being struck by a car in a hit and run
It seems the language is a bit more in favour of the cyclist when it is a hit and run. Better than:
A cyclist has died after colliding with a small van
Posted 10 years ago # -
Just up the road from ours. Not much hope of catching the driver though if all they have is 'silver or blue'.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Unless of course there were witnesses.
Posted 10 years ago # -
In other bad news for cyclists...
There was another cyclist knocked off their bike at the Balgreen Road junction with Corstorphine Road yesterday morning.
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.
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.
Take care out their folks...
Posted 10 years ago # -
@Hank.
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.
Police did nothing. Van driver later claimed my colleague had 'jumped' off the pavement. A likely story...
Posted 10 years ago # -
"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."
Agreed. Good idea. The often "empty" bus lane invites people to push out.
Hope all the cyclists concerned are ok.
Posted 10 years ago # -
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.
Another one of the reasons I avoid the A8 wherever possible
Posted 10 years ago # -
Best wishes to all the cyclists involved, and car drivers wonder why I'm paranoid!
Posted 10 years ago # -
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
Posted 10 years ago # -
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 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.Posted 10 years ago #
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