Bad week for Riders down

[Wicker]

The BBC Scotland on-line news has made depressing reading this last week.

Headlines today talk of 4 bike deaths over the last few days (A83 Loch Fyne Oyster Bar, A939, Tomintoul, A7 Galashiels, A93 Perth / Blairgowrie) plus the two bikers who collided on the A77 near Girvan on Thursday, plus the police rider in Livingston. I remember similar headlines back in May when there seemed to be cluster of fatal accidents included someone I knew.

There were certainly a lot of bikes out yesterday around Tyndrum and Oban, some club runs, and the roads as busy with bikes as I have seen. Also plenty of nose to tail bank holiday traffic, caravans, ooh look at the scenery drivers, mixed with bikes who were still trying to make extremely fast progress so I suppose some accidents were likely.

Is it just me becoming paranoid or is this a bad year for accidents?

 

[G.C.]

Certainly a lot more bikes on the road than I have ever seen.
More traffic in general.
An increase in bike accidents will inevitably lead to more initiatives targeting bikes and that’s got to be bad news for us all.

 

[Bumble Bee]

Came across another one today on A93, about mile north of the Bailey bridge.
Rider lying in middle of road with Polis directing traffic. He was lying very still and not moving. On a straight bit of road, so can only think he must have clipped the verge after taking one of the bends at either end of the straight bit. Looked like Fazer/Diversion/Hornet type lying in the weeds at the roadside.
Guess the Blairgowrie ambulance must have been "otherwise engaged" as met one heading south from Bridge of Cally. Assume it came from Pitlochry.
Nothing on the news, so far, TV or 'net, so I guess the guy's still alive (I hope), otherwise the media would be making with the "another biker bites the dust" type story.

Hope you're OK mate and get well soon.

BB

 

[SpyInTheCamp]

I understand that the incident on the A7 was at a very dangerous junction at Bowland (the B710 to Clovenfords).

It is one that I avoid as much as possible (at least going from the B road onto the A road which is how I suspect the accident happened).

Not surprising that it has claimed a life. Hopefully the council will look at addressing it at long last.

Kai

 

[Davel]

Just got back from a 5 day tour up there along with 5 mates.

We were held up for two hours on our way to Lochgilphead because of the accident on the A83. They were hosing down the road as we passed it.

Very sobering to see and we were told of several more deaths up there the same week.

Fantastic roads, scenery and friendly folk - so thanks for having us

 

[zdaveuk]

The accident on the A7 occured when the car pulled out of the junction on to main road biker clipped the side of the car he stood no chance at all .

 

[Boon]

Just got back from a 5 day tour up there along with 5 mates.

We were held up for two hours on our way to Lochgilphead because of the accident on the A83. They were hosing down the road as we passed it.

Very sobering to see and we were told of several more deaths up there the same week.

Fantastic roads, scenery and friendly folk - so thanks for having us

Which day?,there was two bike fatals on that road on consecutive days in the last week.

 

[Davel]

Tues 28th on the road to Lochilpead.

We got off the ferry about 5'ish and it was suggested that we stopped to eat whilst the road was still blocked ahead.

We stopped at a caravan site with a bar and restaurant.

It was by the Loch Fyne Oyster Bar, I think, and the firebrigade were hosing down an area just off the main road.

The rider was killed but his pillion was, I'm told, okay.

 

[skyenet]

more this bad news this week

Biker dies in head-on road crash
A 40-year-old man has died in a motorbike crash in Argyll.
Robert Day, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire, lost control of his Ducatti motorbike on the A83 eastbound near Inverary. He died at the scene.

A 46-year-old man on a Honda motorbike was seriously injured and airlifted to hospital in Glasgow.

Police said both bikes went out of control on a left hand bend and crashed head-on into two oncoming cars at about 1620 BST on Monday.

 

[Monsieur]

9 (NINE!) riders killed in Lincolnshire in August alone.
2 this past week as well