Not another one, RIP

[4F]

Picture a two lane motorway and you picture this road.

And that is the problem, they are motorways in all but name. The A12 this way is another particually nasty one which still has central crossing points . Recent case of some old dear pulling right across the road from the inside lane and wiping out a biker because she got confused.

 

[Eat MY Dust]

I think I actually knew this guy, not personally but I know who he is and his family.

I don't understand why he wouldn't have gone through Hill of Beath and through Crossgates. It wouldn't have really added all that much time onto his journey. This road is a motorway in all but name.

 

[Eat MY Dust]

Sorry maybe I'm mis-reading this. Did he cycle all the way from Kirkaldy on the A92?

 

[skwerl]

Sorry maybe I'm mis-reading this. Did he cycle all the way from Kirkaldy on the A92?

seems like he cycled kirkcaldy to Dunfermline along the A92. Strange as there are plenty of alternative routes but I guess the A92 is most direct

 

[Mr Pig]

I think some of you are being a bit unfair on the police here.

The laws regarding dual carriageways were put in place long before the volume of traffic rose to it's current level. Like them or not, the speeding cars and trucks are now present and the police have to deal with it. The reality of it, not your idealistic wishful thinking.

Should cyclists be allowed to cycle on the motorway? Because that's effectively what many of these dual carriageways are. And if the only road that went between where you were and where you wanted to be was a motorway would that justify cycling on it?

And again I see that everyone is making huge assumption. We don't know what the police said or did, who was at fault, how well lit he was on a pitch black night...

Yes, it's sad. Maybe the police are biased but the truth is that it might also have been the guy's own fault. The fact that it is sad is the only thing we actually know for sure.