Police Scotland has repeated an appeal for information about a collision in which a cyclist was seriously injured in the Scottish Borders.
The 75-year-old man was involved in a collision with a Volvo car on the A72 Peebles to Glentress Road near Eshiels Mill at around 6pm on Monday October 27.
The cyclist was taken to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and subsequently transferred to Glasgow where he remains in a critical condition.
Police are keen to hear from any road users who witnessed the collision or saw either vehicle but have not yet come forward.
Sergeant Neil Inglis said: "Two weeks on from this incident, we are still trying to establish exactly what happened to result in the collision taking place.
"I would ask that any motorists or cyclists who were on the A72 on Monday evening and saw either of the vehicles involved prior to the collision to contact police immediately.
"In addition, anyone with any further information relevant to our investigation is also asked to get in touch."
Anyone with information is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101.




















4 thoughts on “Scottish police renews appeal for witnesses of crash that hospitalised 75-year-old cyclist”
Hope he recovers.
On a
Hope he recovers.
On a related note, has anyone seen this from the Evening Standard?
Careless drivers ‘need tough new law’, say family of girl brain damaged in car accident
There’s a petition:
tinyurl.com/carelessdriving
I did, and signed the
I did, and signed the petition. It took 1 min.
Have just revisited this –
Have just revisited this – apologies everyone for the busted link. I’ve lost the opportunity to edit my first post, so here is the link again:
http://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-mp-introduce-a-new-offence-of-causing-serious-injury-by-careless-driving-to-the-law
180 extra signatures since posting yesterday!
My heart breaks to think that
My heart breaks to think that this poor family wants a weaker prosecuting option because it is easier to prosecute successfully under a softer law than a harder one. We already have a offence of ‘causing serious injury by dangerous driving’.
But while you are currently unlikely to get a conviction on the offence of ‘causing serious injury by dangerous driving’, they feel correctly that it would be easier to convict drivers who have caused serious injury by creating a lesser offence of ‘causing serious injury by careless driving’. And they are right too. When the new offence of ‘causing death by careless driving’ was introduced as a less serious option to ‘causing death by dangerous driving’, then the higher order offence convictions for road deaths significantly dropped as prosecutors went for the easier ‘careless driving’ option and these rose correspondingly. RoadPeace did an analysis of this.
Only when judges and juries start taking bad driving seriously will prosecutors start having the confidence to charge higher order offences – and we will not need this constant weakening of chargeable driving offences.