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Coventry Road, Sharnford Road junction (via Google)Man arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of drugs after death of cyclist
A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving and driving while under the influence of drugs after a cyclist in his 60s was killed in Leicestershire.
The incident took place around 10am on Sunday on the Coventry Road in Sapcote, close to the Sharnford Road junction. An Audi Q5 vehicle ended up on its side in a ditch following the collision, according to Leicestershire Live.
The cyclist was taken to hospital in Coventry after the crash, but died from his injuries later that afternoon.
The man arrested has since been released under investigation.
Detective Sergeant Paul Hawkins, from Leicestershire Police's Serious Collision Investigation Unit, has appealed to motorists who may have dashcam footage of the incident or anyone who was in the area at the time and witnessed either the cyclist or driver beforehand to come forward.
This is the second time in less than two years that a cyclist has been killed after being involved in a collision in this area.
In May 2020 a 17-year-old boy died after he was hit by the driver of a Mini Cooper while riding his bike on the Leicester Road near the junction with the Coventry Road, roughly half a mile from where Sunday’s incident took place.
Anyone with information about Sunday’s incident can pass on information by calling 101 or by visiting Leicestershire Police’s website.
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After obtaining a PhD, lecturing, and hosting a history podcast at Queen’s University Belfast, Ryan joined road.cc in December 2021 and since then has kept the site’s readers and listeners informed and enthralled (well at least occasionally) on news, the live blog, and the road.cc Podcast. After boarding a wrong bus at the world championships and ruining a good pair of jeans at the cyclocross, he now serves as road.cc’s senior news writer. Before his foray into cycling journalism, he wallowed in the equally pitiless world of academia, where he wrote a book about Victorian politics and droned on about cycling and bikes to classes of bored students (while taking every chance he could get to talk about cycling in print or on the radio). He can be found riding his bike very slowly around the narrow, scenic country lanes of Co. Down.
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