Lollipop man knocked down by motorbike

[GREENI3]

https://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/fpfalmouth/9117070.Falmouth_lollipop_man_knocked_down___road_still_closed/

That was an accident just waiting to happen.
If you look at that picture, the road is on a brow of hill.

Seems the bike had been going up the hill and hadn't seen the guy until it was too late.

[Rogerborg]

Oops. It's only missing "...and then running over his basket of kittens". I wouldn't like to be that biker when he goes up before the Beak.
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[Andy_Pagin]

Google streetview make that whole stretch look fairly dangerous, judging by the number of no overtaking signs it must be an accident black spot, seen from the opposite direction that hill is pretty steep.
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[dgo1212]

Just been reading the comments at the bottom of the article, Ya'll don't know sh1t! The accident had nothing to do with the hill, or the road, it's all because the government are making cutbacks

[GREENI3]

[dgo1212]

I was taking the piss.

"it was probably down to the fact the biker was going too fast and/or wasn't paying enough attention."

I'd say you're probably right

[matthew88]

Poor fella, hopefully he will be ok
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[2wheelsteve]

Poor riding
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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

[Comatosed]

I will probably get some bad karma for this but some of you guys are so fast to be judgemental when we don't know the facts.
just by looking at the picture i can straight away see an error on both sides, 1, all us drivers are (should be) cautious of blind spots, whether its a steep hill or a sharp bend and same goes for the lollipop man (bless his soul) 2, its never a good idea to do a crossing at any blind spot be it a hill or a bend.
We had to walk about 400 meters down from our school for our lollipop lady because of the hill which is now a zebra crossing.

edit* after taking another look at the photo, it would probably be in the councels interest to put a set of lights right there if there is a lot of incidents in that spot.

[chris-red]

Is 'The Packet' Cornwall's equivient to the Daily Mail?

[ninja_butler]

I would presume it is a 30 or even 20 limit. So why was the motorcyclist riding so fast he couldn't stop?

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[obiwan]

Falmouth aye? That's where I work, lots of dangerous roads around the area..

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[Wafer_Thin_Ham]

That's my favourite road to practise my stand up wheelies on, I hope they don't police it more.
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