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Updated: 16-year-old girl killed in Cambridge named as Beth McDermott
Cambridgeshire police have named the young cyclist killed in a collision with two cars on Wednesday night as Elizabeth Helen Byrne-McDermott.
Cambridge News reports that her college principal, Christine Sherwin, described her as “a very creative young person with brilliant ideas”.
Beth McDermott was attended by ambulance crews and taken to Addenbrooke’s hospital after the crash between Milton Road and Birch Close, Cambridge just before 7pm.
She died of her injuries during the night.
Ms Sherwin said that Beth's classmates and college staff were struggling to come to terms with what had happened.
She said: “She was a very creative young person with brilliant ideas and was able to demonstrate an independent approach to her studies very early on in the courses.
“She was committed to her studies and always willing to put in the extra effort to achieve her very best.
“She was a popular student who got on really well with everyone in lessons.
“Staff and students at the college were very upset and are still coming to terms with this devastating news and our sympathies go out to her parents and all those who knew her.”
Witnesses reported a bobble hat circled with chalk in the middle of the road outside the Milton Arms pub. On the adjacent grass verge was bike with a front wicker basket, bent back on itself.
The cars involved are reported to be a yellow Peugeot 307 and a grey Audi A3 TDI. Nobody from the cars was injured. The Peugeot had a smashed windscreen.
Police have asked that anyone who saw the crash should call 101.
John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.
He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.
Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.
John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.
He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.
*gabbles* did I say anything about swords I've no problems with swords I've always liked swordsmen...
You are absolutely correct, it's monstrous. And modern (independent) Australia has continued in the spirit of that fine tradition.
It's telling that he can only gain feature-point status by stoking division and not wholesale support for his agenda, as his meagre petition...
I think more emphasis needs to be placed upon not overtaking across a junction....
And of course not giving way to a road user already on the roundabout. ...
Portland? It's just the same as the UK but with beards and bikes *. But the rain is more Irish, true....
Don't say Beetlejuice!
Agreed. I was informed this week by an Uber Eats scooterist that his mounting the pavement and riding towards me was "not [his] problem, bro."
If he'd said Cambridge he might have been onto something, though the train is a far better option, but theres not alot of shopping in Ely to write...
This falls down though in that the most vociferous complaints about cyclists come from the drivers who behave worst around them. This doesn't seem...