Sad news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-29099398
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Cyclist killed in lorry collision in Sutherland
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Posted 9 years ago #
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Here's the road. https://goo.gl/maps/0q3Li
Lots of blind bends by the looks of it. Terrible shame.
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National Cycle Route 1
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And another cyclist killed yesterday in Aberdeen http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-29105950
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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...
Such a shame. Another 59 year old killed on a A road down south this weekend as well.
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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 .
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Horrible.
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Very sad. I cycled through Bettyhill at 2:30am in late July. We saw one vehicle, twice.
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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 Andrew McMenigall and Toby Wallace who were also killed by a lorry driver, albeit on a very different stretch of road.
I cycled round there this spring, though I don't know if I covered the exact bit of road under discussion.
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Certainly south of Bettyhill towards Lairg the comercial vehicles race around those single track roads!
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Main route is via Tongue as Strathnaver route is very narrow and twisting, especially at Lairg end Lairg-Tongue and then coastal route.
Has anyone details of whose truck it was, what was being transported?
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"
Not so much traffic along North Coast until you reach Reay, and close in on Thurso.
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Yet another death, near Loch Earn at the weekend I am sorry to say.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-29202534
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I assume she was on one of the events mentioned in this thread:
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