An investigation is underway into a collision which saw two cyclists taken to hospital, one of the riders in a critical condition, after emergency services were called to a crash involving the two people on bikes and an Audi being driven on the M9 in Scotland.
While the circumstances around the incident remain unclear, police in Stirling say it occurred shortly after 5pm on Sunday evening with paramedics and police arriving on the scene near junction 7 for the M876 Falkirk.
One cyclist involved, aged 26, remains in a critical condition at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, while the second male cyclist, 29, was taken to Forth Valley Hospital for an assessment. The driver of the Audi involved was not injured.
In footage from the scene, published by STV, two closed lanes can be seen with police vehicles and officers in attendance. One bicycle is seen resting against the central reservation while a second can be seen in between the barriers. The vehicle believed to be involved is then stopped further up the motorway in the inside lane with its hazard lights on.
Two cyclists were taken to hospital following a crash with an Audi on a major motorway near Falkirk. https://t.co/oRrBNq6NOO pic.twitter.com/mYdvuKc5xa
— STV News (@STVNews) June 3, 2024
The major motorway remained closed until after midnight on Monday morning, police appealing for anyone with information to get in touch via 101 and quote the incident 2738 of 2 June 2024.
“Our enquiries into the circumstances surrounding this incident remain ongoing and we are appealing to anyone with information to please come forward. We are particularly keen to speak with any motorists who were in the area around 5pm on Sunday and may have dashcam footage, which could prove useful to the investigation,” Inspector Andrew Thomson from Stirling Road Policing Unit said.
While the circumstances surrounding the incident remain unclear, cyclists are not allowed to ride on motorways, numerous recent cases having been reported involving riders, sometimes following questionable sat-nav directions intended for motorists, being pulled off motorways by police concerned for their safety.
In August, a cyclist was stopped by police on the M27 in Hampshire and charged with using an excluded vehicle on a motorway.
17 thoughts on “Cyclist in critical condition after collision on major motorway, second cyclist also taken to hospital”
If this is really related to
If this is really related to satnavs that’s just mad… Motorists blindly following directions with no regard to reality, let alone other peoples safety and health, ok, that’s to some degree the inherent egotism and stupidity of being a motorist (the sheer existence of motorways is part of the same arrogance of space /otherwise).
But cyclists doing this shit, and thus sort of justifying even the most extreme forms of victim blaming…
Come on people, we’re better than that!
Drivists keep failing to
Drivists keep failing to follow the the laws & Highway Code & they’ve notionally had to pass a test!
Some other European country’s motorway signs are green & not blue. Also, entering motorways by slip road, there are no excluded vehicles signage, so not that hard to use one in error, especially if one’s destination is only shown via the motorway.
I’ve wondered for a while now
I’ve wondered for a while now as to why the blue signs highlighting prohibited traffic no longer exist on slip roads. Even to have a cyclist/pedestrian prohibited sign would be a massive help.
marmotte27 wrote:
Really nothing more than rampant road.cc speculation and a weak excuse to cross-link another story at this point.
Quote:
Did anyone imagine otherwise?
brooksby wrote:
Not entirely sure what a difference the brand of vehicle would make to the outcome in this kind of situation.
The driver had an Audi,
The driver had an Audi, therefore they were a Very Important Person?
brooksby wrote:
You’re going to have to explain it I’m afraid, I appreciate we don’t know all of what the circumstances are in this story, however I’m not sure how the brand of car made a difference to the fact that the two cyclists involved in a collision on a motorway were injured and the driver of said car was not.
One thing I do know is that a couple of people have been injured, one seriously, and regardless of whether or not they should or should not have been on the motorway, all you can do is make a sweeping generalisation regarding the driver, who, while not physically injured, is probably in a bad place themselves after this.
OK.
OK.
Two cyclists were hospitalised following a collision between them and a motor vehicle on a motorway.
The point I was trying to make was that, regardless of what happened, I was wondering why on earth the police had felt it necessary to confirm that the motorist (whatever vehicle they were driving) was unharmed.
OF COURSE they were unharmed. That’s the point of all of the safety equipment fitted in a modern car – to keep the occupants unharmed for so long as they haven’t driven into a vehicle bigger than their own.
mark1a wrote:
It suggests that Audis are so flimsily built that there was a serious possibility that the driver could have sustained injuries in a collision with a bicycle and rider.
It does not suggest that
It does not suggest that particularly. Other things could also have happened.
Given motorway speeds I
Given motorway speeds I wouldn’t have been so certain, regardless of the vehicle type. Idiot assume they are invulnerable in their metal box but at that speed there’s no guarantee.
Not sure where abouts this
Not sure where abouts this was, but the M9/A9 goes from dual carriageway to A-road and back again a few times. This might be a factor in why the cyclists ended up on the road.
the little onion wrote:
No it doesn’t, the M9 runs from west of Edinburgh to Dunblane and is a motorway the whole length
Looks to be around here:
Looks to be around here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wfgqqiuD9hPENTHW6.
I dont think thats the case
I dont think thats the case here, the M876 diverges off the M9 to the Kincardine/ Clackmannanshire Bridges. The M9 has been motorway all the way from Dunblane (circa 13miles) (I’ve darted across the Dunblane roundabout a few times where it is an A road technically, but it is clear that its a motorway south of it and crazy N-S speed traffic). The M876 has been motorway since just after the bridges (circa 1.5 miles) and its pretty clear as a person on a bike that you need to avoid the motorway and turn of into Bellsdyke/ Skinflats. The bikes seem to be on the northbound carriageway which has been motorway all the way from Ediburgh circa (20miles) and the only A road junction is at Falkirk/Grangemouth circa 2.5 miles away, Ive cycled under the motorway there and its quite clear that up one slip road ramp is the motorway. None-the-less I’m hearing via tw@tter that more cyclist were escorted of the motorway near there to day so something is up now, where as for the last 30-40years I don’t think it has.
Mountain bikes and near the
Mountain bikes and near the central reservation but it looks more as if they are on opposite carriageways not with one of them in the space between the barriers.
It’s all wrong. If they were on the motorway they could have been hit in the relative refuge of the hard shoulder or possibly crossing the slip road but to be near the central reservation is the wrongest of wrong places to be.
I hope the critically injured rider gets out of hospital alive and in good shape.
I wonder if we’ll ever find out the full circumstances around this.