Cyclist Killed in Birmingham

[BrumJim]

A lot of traffic on my route home last night. Now I know why:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-15364146
This is VERY close to my commute. The road route near here takes me across this road, and the canal option almost takes me underneath it.

 

[numbnuts]

RIP

 

[JiMBR]

Very sad...R.I.P.

 

[diapason]

RIP - when will the government take some action to make lorries safer?

 

[lozcs]

Just down the road from where I am now...

RIP

 

[Kiwiavenger]

RIP

 

[numbnuts]

RIP - when will the government take some action to make lorries safer?

Today I was over taken my two tipper trucks and both of them used their horn to warn me, that has to be a start

 

[AideyM]

RIP,

 

[Downward]

Yes Wife just text me as it's a friend of a friends fiancee. I don't know the area - What is the island like ??

The way the lorries zoom up and down here in Kings Norton is frightning

 

[Cubist]

I had a lorry wait behind me up a short gradient yesterday. He overtook well as we approached some lights and left loads of room for me to pass into the ASL (the road splits, so I had a twenty foot wide escape route and could safely pass on the nearside). I looked back and up at the driver once I reached the ASL in order to make "eye contact". I got a big grin and a thumbs up.

Wonder what sort of bike he rides!

RIP

 

[BrumJim]

Yes Wife just text me as it's a friend of a friends fiancee. I don't know the area - What is the island like ??

The way the lorries zoom up and down here in Kings Norton is frightning

Its the Pump island, Dartmouth Circus - not the one on the BBC. That's the one with the big green early steam pump on it.

Been over it a few times. Always take a big breath and an agressive line on it, even in the car. You really have to command your road space and look out for cars on all sides.

 

[Wobblers]

That's not good at all. RIP.

Its the Pump island, Dartmouth Circus - not the one on the BBC. That's the one with the big green early steam pump on it.

Been over it a few times. Always take a big breath and an agressive line on it, even in the car. You really have to command your road space and look out for cars on all sides.

I don't think I've gone over that particular roundabout, but all the roundabouts on the inner ring road seem to have been designed to be as unpleasant as possible.