Livingston jogger dies after being hit by cyclist

Whilst my earlier comment was just hyperthetical, i agree with a lot of people here in that it was an accident with no blame attached.

The Police may well have done a very thorough investigation, it just doesn't say anything about it so why jump to conclusions.

Go to any shopping mall and watch people interacting. You will see hundreds of no fault collisions an hour. People bump into each other, apologise and move on. Every once in a while a collision results in someone losing their balance and ending up on the floor.

No one is at fault; no one is to blame, it just happens!

This could just be one of those situations. Only the location is different and the 'collision-ees' mode of locomotion.

This is simply a regrettable incident where the only thing you can do is extend your deepest sympathies to all concerned.

think it is time to revisit the discussion last year (?) I think instigated by road.cc about comments on death reports - I find very little of the above appropriate

Dont insult the poor guy by calling him a "jogger" ffs

It's time to change the headline, surely?

I was knocked off by a pedestrian who walked out into the road without looking, I nearly ended up under car wheels but ended up with a bill of over £100 for repairs, what did the zombie ped do? Apologised and walked off to work, I was off the bike for weeks and at huge expense, Forgetaboutit.

The runner died, which is sad. But did the cyclist actually kill him? Or was this simply a pre-existing condition and the collision was simply the trigger. Would two runners bumping into each other have had the same result? If the runner had bumped into a pedestrian would it still have happened?

The posters above are correct. All the paths in Livingston are shared use (which makes it one of the most cycle friendly towns in Scotland; you can get almost anywhere in the town without riding on a road).
This is a very, very sad incident. Stick to the facts that the police have provided, instead of speculating, and spare a thought for the family of the deceased.

I was cycling along the Military Canal near Hythe last Sunday on a shared un-asphalted path, lots of parents with cycling children, owners walking their dogs etc... when 2 cyclists (not the Lycra type) suddenly emerged from a bend at full speed. Everybody scrambled for cover whilst I braked hard to avoid collision. The cyclists muttered sorry and sped off. Everyone of us is responsible for his own road behaviour. I can only hope the cyclist involved in the fatal accident can look at himself in the mirror every morning and convince himself it was a mere "accident". RIP a totally innocent road user in the best sense of the term.

Poor guy R.I.P.

Should not be cycling on footpath unless you are under 12?

Very rare incident of crash.

Unfortunate that the article does not say why there was no charge. I am left wondering what happened.

To put it in perspective I suggest a newspaper publishes all the road fatalities that occur each day for a month. Whether they be pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, skateboarders or motorcar drivers they should publish the circumstances. If the families are sensitive about this then perhaps they can just say 'A person in X part of the country died in Y circumstances'.

but taking into account distances covered, mile for mile a motor vehicle is still 2.5 times more likely than a bike to be involved in a fatal collision with a pedestrian.

This is fairly meaningless. A high proportion of miles covered by motor vehicles are on motorways or trunk roads where there are no pedestrians. If you were able to compare the "at risk" miles covered by a car and those by bikes you would get a far higher figure than 2.5.

In any event for the pedestrian you are 34 times as likely to be killed by a car than a bike on the pavement. It doesn't really matter how far the vehicle has traveled to the person hit.

I would think more people are struck by lightning and certainly more are killed by dogs. fatalities caused by cyclists are statistically irrelevant.

Would y'all be so cool with this if the deceased were a relative ? Your wife or child ?

Let's not make this a helmet debate. Don't really want an infrastructure debate on this page either.

It is a tragic accident and I know that his friends will be devasted and many of them as road cyclists may read these pages so let's keep the other stuff for other threads and remember how lucky we are.

I didn't know him, but I do know some of his friends. They are some of the good guys in this world.

This shows how fragile we really are. It's possible he could have had an undetected anueuryism which ruptured as a result of the accident. It has been estimated that between 2 and 5% of people in the have an aneurysm sitting dormant.

So, how does that helmet look now?

this was Friday last week on segregated and elevated CS3 in East London. the Veolia / Tower Hamlets refuse truck driver caused a female cyclist to crash, thankfully she was not injured.

the driver then became abusive towards cyclists, telling them to "f(ck off!" before getting back in the vehicle and driving further along CS3 causing oncoming cyclists to swerve and brake hard.

Complaint has been made to LB Tower Hamlets with absolutely no response...

Change the story and its a cyclist hit by a car on a "shared use road" and they later die, the lynch mob would be out for the driver. Just saying.......

Can the BBC and Daily Heil please report on all pedestrians killed by cars crossing the road and cars speed for example ? CTC are right, cars far more dangerous.

"Should have been wearing a helmet...."

As best I can work out, the Loan path is a shared-use path, not a 'footpath'.

The collision occurred, from the local FB page sounds like at a corner, he was able to walk away but died later from what sounds like bleeding on the brain. There but for the grace of God go I, faffing up clipping in/out one day.

“no suggestion of any criminality”

A genuine tragic accident for a guy living life to the full, by the look of him. Our condolences to the family and community.

This is going to play 'well' with the Daily Fail mob...

Hmmm, you shouldn't really be running peds over on a shared path.