Female cyclist dies in Manchester..

[Rob3rt]

I agree with TMN re. all of these RIP fest threads. I find it rather odd that people feel the need to post them, but so be it. Maybe a single run-on thread would be a good idea, maybe some would find it insensitive!

However, I find TMN's crusade generally equally as irritating and needless as I find the need to post these rather morbid threads odd.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

I don't recall ever saying that before. And I don't see where my saying it this time has stopped anyone from doing what you call "paying respects", i.e. typing the letters R, I, and P, for all the good that does anyone.

RIP RIP RIP

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

TMN your funny.

 

[jimmas]

Really sad
RIP

 

[Milzy]

This is sad but almost every day I log in, a thread about a cyclist killed by a vehicle can be found. This will keep happening unless they make our roads more like they have in Holland. The standard of driving in the UK is quickly catching up with Russia.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

"Thread derailing"? What is this thread actually about? The sanctimonious hand-wringing RIPs, the picking-over, the groundless empty speculation about the behaviour and subsequent death of a real person are the insensitive bit.

I think I was the first to reply on this thread with an ''RIP '' message. On its own a post like that serves no great purpose, I know. It goes some way, I suppose, to quelling that gut wrenching feeling that I get whenever the next one comes along. I ride enough in the inner city to know that it may one day happen to me, and that more likely than not, it will be through no fault of my own, so I'm not going to speculate about the behaviour of the victim.

However, in a more general sense, I know that in the background to so many of these deaths there are the road systems designed by highway engineers with reserved parking places at the council, there is the ''I'm late, must dash to the lights'' stop-start way of driving that has become more noticeable as traffic speeds decrease, London tipper truck drivers, tweeting twats, and the whole carboodle. It all seems to boil down to car = entitlement.

As to these ''cyclist killed'' threads, it's a bit like ghost bikes: warn of the risks, search for a little empathy or even consideration, and leave a space to commemorate the victims. Or do as Greenwich Park did when a driver decided he had to go to the toilet so swung across the road to get to the public conveniences, and people put up a ghost bike to commemorate the cyclist he killed as he did it. The park people took the bike away. Apparently reality sits badly alongside tourism. I find the missing ghost bike more chilling than, say, Stella's or Adrianna's on the lower road. (Even more chilling that I remember those 2 names but not the guy's on the park hill.)

And as for hand-wringing, I've been on 2 protest rides in the last month (50% men, 50% woman, 100% construction industry lorries, 100% dead), I have no power over the motor industry lobby, and going on too many of these rides will seriously mess my head up. It's bad enough dealing with the traffic already.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I think I was the first to reply on this thread with an ''RIP '' message. On its own a post like that serves no great purpose, I know. It goes some way, I suppose, to quelling that gut wrenching feeling that I get whenever the next one comes along. I ride enough in the inner city to know that it may one day happen to me, and that more likely than not, it will be through no fault of my own, so I'm not going to speculate about the behaviour of the victim.

Well put. May I add I clicked on this thread only because Potsy put "female" in the title. I'm not one for false sentimentalism or morbid curiosity about others deaths, my RIP came from the empathy feeling of "it could have been me, going about my daily business on my bike".
Agreed, useless, as TMN says. Then again you could say the same about tending graves, it's really more for the living than for the dead.

 

[Shaun]

I have moved a number of posts out of this thread that (in the main) discuss the side issue of the thread title. Apologies for any that address both this thread and the side disucssion, but I have chosen based on the key content in people's responses:

http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/wa...rom-female-cyclist-dies-in-manchester.136871/

Please use the new thread to expand on the side discussion and leave this one for anyone wishing to specifically discuss this incident.

Thanks,
Shaun

 

[Curb]

I ride close to there nearly every morning, and drive the route the car was going along sometimes, so it's close to home..

(I'd heard someone mention about a crash the other day - but didn't come across the reports till I saw the post)

Here is a bit more about the cyclist that I came across
http://manchestergazette.co.uk/trib...d-following-a-collision-on-the-mancunian-way/

Thoughts are with her loved ones and we are reminded of our own mortality.

 

[glenn forger]

http://www.theguardian.com/environm...field-cyclist-killed-manchester-mancunian-way

Jaye Bloomfield, 44, died instantly after being hit on her bike by a black Seat Leon on a pedestrian crossing in Hulme. The collision happened on the westbound sliproad leading to the Mancunian Way flyover from Princess Road at around 3pm on Saturday.
Locals said drivers frequently failed to slow down in time to stop at the traffic lights, which were installed fairly recently as an alternative to a much-hated underpass.
It is unclear what happened in this case, but the driver of the car, a 40-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and has been bailed pending further inquiries.