Road Safety Project. Fatal Motorbike Crash Milngavie

As part of a campaign to get road improvements made on the Milngavie
to Drymen (Stockiemuir)road in East Dumbartonshire I am looking for
details of a fatal motorbike accident. From memory it occurred between
Milngavie in the Carbeth Inn 2 or 3 years ago but is not for some
reason included in a list of accidents supplied to us.
Iain

 

What sort of road improvements?

 

Improving sight lines on 2 or 3 blind bends.
Iain

 

That might reduce the *number* of accidents - but surely the accidents that
do happen will presumably be at a higher speed and, thus, are more likely to
be fatal?

 

Not necessarily. For example the safest roads are motorways despite
the higher speed limit as they have good lines of site. All traffic
(in each carriageway) going the same direction etc.
Also after a certain speed is reached the consequences of an
accident depend more on what you hit after you lose control rather
than absolute speed.
Think of bikers crashing at high speeds on racing circuits where they
slide along and come to a halt. As opposed to hitting a wall as soon
as you crash.
So any improvements that reduce the number of accidents must be a
benefit.
Iain

 

There aren't many sharp blind bends on motorways.

 

dwb says...

They're all sharp at 150mph.

 

How would Dan know that? ;-)

 

Sorby says...

Good point well made.

 

Remind me again which bike it is you currently have that does over a 100,
let alone a 150?

 

It's a ZZR600, actually.

Haven't ridden it nearly a year, mind.

 

Unless you accidentally come off on a RH slip road thinking you are
still in the fast lane. :{

 

the cont known as gomez says...

In the UK?

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember petrolcan

That really rings a bell. There used to be one like that in Glasgow,
afair. If not there, I've certainly come across it somewhere in the UK.

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Dave

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the cont known as Grimly Curmudgeon says...

You were pissed and on the wrong side of the carraigeway.

 

Your memory serves you well.

 

At least 2 in Glasgow IIRC.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember petrolcan

That explains the horns and lights.

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Dave

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