A dodgy intersection in Melbourne’s west could also be liable for a 22-year-old elite bike owner’s dying.
Tributes have poured in for Angus Collins, who was hit by a truck on the intersection of Footscray and Dock Hyperlinks roads, West Melbourne, simply earlier than 12.30pm on Thursday.
The male driver of the truck stopped and assisted the police with their inquiries; nonetheless, Mr. Collins died on the scene.
The dying of Mr Collins, a member of the Brunswick Biking Membership, was the third dying on Melbourne roads on Thursday and prompted a desperate plea from police for highway customers to train extra warning.
Over the weekend BikeWest, a neighborhood group advocating for cyclists within the metropolis’s west, mentioned it was “doubtless” Mr Collins and the truck driver had simultaneous inexperienced lights, as each traveled west on Footscray Rd – Mr Collins on a parallel bike path however hidden from a left-turning truck by a big cement pillar.
“The pylon for the elevated freeway creates a big blind spot for drivers,” BikeWest mentioned over the weekend.
It referred to the 2017 dying of mom of two Arzu Karakoc, who was hit and killed at an intersection in neighboring Yarraville when each Ms Karakoc and the motive force had inexperienced lights, a coroner later found.
“Substandard infrastructure is killing us, we deserve higher,” BikeWest mentioned.
The Brunswick Biking Membership mentioned it was “rocked by this extremely unhappy information”.
“We misplaced one other biking soul method too quickly and we’re humbly reaching out to our neighborhood for assist, regardless of how small, which will likely be given to Angus’ household,” the membership mentioned.
A GoFundMe, arrange for Mr Collins’ funeral help, has raised greater than $22,000.
Victorian Greens MP Ellen Sandell, who represents the state seat of Melbourne, has known as for an pressing repair of the intersection and a parliamentary inquiry into making roads safer for cyclists and walkers.
“The (Footscray Rd and Dock Hyperlinks Rd) intersection was made much more harmful by West Gate toll highway building – but warnings to the state authorities fell on deaf ears and nothing was completed,” she mentioned.
NCA NewsWire has contacted VicRoads for remark.
