Two deaths within a week, both just a couple of miles from our house.

[roubaixtuesday]

For the first a woman has admitted causing serious injury by dangerous driving (before the later death of the victim). Unlicenced and uninsured, failed to stop. I have reliable information that she hit the cyclist from behind, had an 8yo in the car with her, and drove on with a broken windscreen.

https://www.wilmslow.co.uk/news/art...t-sadly-dies-following-collision-in-handforth

The victim was a 62yo woman. RIP.

The second victim was hit by a horsebox, again from behind. I know nothing more than the press report which predates the later death of the victim, a man in his 60s.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.c...ws/cyclist-fighting-life-after-crash-29902688

RIP.

 

[Arjimlad]

Awful!

 

[PedallingNowhereSlowly]

I used to be a regular on a bike in those parts.

Yes. Awful.

And the MEN article - "the cyclist and the horsebox then collided" - sounds so incidental.

 

[Jameshow]

Sadly ironic that a horse riding driving should drive so recklessly near a venerable road user.... 😢

 

[Drago]

I predict some lame excuse, sun in the eyes (but still carried on driving blind), didn't see them (wasn't paying attention) and at best they'll get a derisory punishment and at worst not guilty. Or itll somehow be the victims fault. That's if it gets as far as a courtroom.

 

[RRCC]

Sadly ironic that a horse riding driving should drive so recklessly near a venerable road user.... 😢

but not uncommon in my experience, horseboxes have one of the worst ratios of close passes – possibly due to the drivers not normally driving with trailers.

 

[toffee]

but not uncommon in my experience, horseboxes have one of the worst ratios of close passes – possibly due to the drivers not normally driving with trailers.

I would say any trailer on a Sunday morning in my experience.

 

[Baldy]

I live in rural clackmannanshire so tend to see horseboxes all the time. Twice I've had really close passes from the bloody things. First time knocked me off and disappeared around a bend before I could get his number. Second wasn't quite so bad as I had a grass verge to escape to. The trouble is the boxes are wider than the car. Then they close pass you leaving no space between you and the car, so when it comes to the box, you've no chance. Of course those glass things on the doors are just there for decoration, they never actually look at them.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Open letter from local cycling group

https://www.wilmslow.co.uk/news/article/24407/readers-letter-action-needed-for-safer-cycling

 

[DCLane]

Having ridden the Eureka audax several times it's only in Wilmslow where I seem to have issues with drivers: their standard of driving is genuinely appalling.

 

[Jameshow]

Having ridden the Eureka audax several times it's only in Wilmslow where I seem to have issues with drivers: their standard of driving is genuinely appalling.

Sense of entitlement perhaps.

Re horseboxes on most if not all the wheels are outside the footprint of the box which driver forget, as well as the horse box taking an inside track round a bend to the towing car....

 

[annedonnelly]

Sense of entitlement perhaps.

Re horseboxes on most if not all the wheels are outside the footprint of the box which driver forget, as well as the horse box taking an inside track round a bend to the towing car....

Walking on a pavement in Hexham on Sunday afternoon I was nearly clipped by a horsebox as the wheel mounted the pavement. She then proceeded to park on the pavement a few yards ahead so that her daughter could go into McDonalds. This is despite there being a large, almost empty public car park about 20 yards ahead of her - in fact she'd have to drive into the car park to turn around and leave.

 

[figbat]

Having spent 40 years around horses, to me a “horsebox” is a lorry built or adapted to carry horses. I read the above with some confusion until I realised that some are referring to what I would call a “horse trailer”.

 

[fossyant]

Wilmslow centre isn't so good for cyclists, too many drivers in their panzers. All fine when you get out from the centre - I avoid it entirely when going out into Cheshire. Same with Alderley Edge - you can get round the outside of the town, the main road is known for 'car spotters' now, so the toss pots it their very expensive cars drive like nobbers.

 

[DaveReading]

Having spent 40 years around horses, to me a “horsebox” is a lorry built or adapted to carry horses. I read the above with some confusion until I realised that some are referring to what I would call a “horse trailer”.

An image search for "horsebox" on Google comes up with mostly the self-propelled variety, but some of the trailer type, with the latter mostly referred to as "horsebox trailer".