A cylist died today following a collision on Wilmslow Road.
Police and other emergency services were called to a serious road traffic collision on Wilmslow Road, near to the Porsche dealership, at 10.26am this morning, Saturday 24th November.
The collision involved a cyclist and a Porsche Boxter, driven by a 50 year old local woman.
The cyclist, a local woman aged 77 years, was taken to Wythenshawe Hospital where she sadly later died of her injuries.
No arrests were made and the deceased's next of kin have been informed.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the collision to contact Eastern Traffic Unit on 101 quoting incident 348 of 24.11.12.
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1) Wilmslow Road, Handforth.
2) Wilmslow Road, Alderley Edge.
3) Wilmslow Road, Mottram St Andrew.
According to Government stats, 79% of cyclists who were killed on UK roads in 2011 were travelling straight on when a vehicle manouvered into them.
If you're driving a car approaching a junction where you wish to turn left, if there's a cyclist ahead of you, wait behind it. It'll only cost you a couple of seconds, and it won't cost the cyclists life.
Thoughts are with her family.
You do that by not riding in the gutter. Ride a fair way out, not so far that you block cars overtaking you, but far enough that they have to manouver around you and therefore they see you and register that you exist. It's often women riders who get killed by trucks turning left (there have many such tragedies in London) probably because they might not be as assertive (NOT aggressive!) as male riders in taking their rightful roadspace, keeping too far left in the gutter.
As a male cyclist I have also observed that while male drivers might occasionally be agressive towards cyclists, female drivers can be 'careless' towards them, passing them very closely indeed.