| Re: Cyclists - death toll on our roads Posted by Marlburian at 11:09, 1st December 2023 |      |
There's a memorial to a cyclist on the A3052 Exeter-Lyme Regis road. He suffered a heart attack. Back in the mid-1960s, I organised 10-mile cycling "out-and-home" time trials that started at the top of Trow Hill above Sidmouth and went past the memorial, with a U-turn after five miles. The events were organised under Road Time Trials Council rules, with the police being notified, but I'm sure that U-turns were banned decades ago!
In the late 1990s I spent a lot of time peering at microfilm copies of Wiltshire newspapers of the 1900s. There were quite a few cases of cyclists being fined for riding on the footpath or without lights - and of people being sent to prison for stealing bicycles.
| Re: Cyclists - death toll on our roads Posted by CyclingSid at 07:07, 1st December 2023 | |
Figures up to 2022:
https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.publishing.service.gov.uk%2Fmedia%2F65143a8bb1bad4000d4fd900%2Fras0601.ods&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK
Figures have improved slightly. Needless to say most of the KSI involve cars.
| Cyclists - death toll on our roads Posted by grahame at 09:41, 30th November 2023 | |
