"gavin" <
[email protected]> writes:
> My wife arrived at the scene on her bike just a few mins after the accident. The approach to the
> scene from Napier Uni is down a particularly steep hill. Immediately at the foot of the hill there
> is a small turning on the left into a minor road. She came down the hill from Napier to find the
> cyclist in a foetal position adjacent to the left kerb just before the junction. The car was
> already stopped in the minor road and had left the major road. The cyclist was being tended by two
> people who informed my wife that the ambulance had been called. The bike was in a state - very
> damaged at the front and was into the minor road beyond the cyclist.
>
> It is highly likely that he hit the back end of the car. But, whether the car was crossing the
> cyclist, overtook and then braked, or merely turned into the minor road is from wife's perspective
> merely speculation.
>
> The police are conducting considerable enquiries at Napier to find witnesses. Hopefully, they will
> find a good independent witness.
Which roads were these? Judging by the hill, you're implying either he was going down Colinton Road
(not very steep), Moooorningsaide Road (horrible - too much traffic for the width of the road but
not all that steep) or Viewforth where I went to school (narrow and really quite steep). But neither
Mooooorningsaide Road nor Viewforth really have a 'turn off on the left at the bottom of the hill',
so presumably turning off Colinton Road into South Gillsland Road?
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