• The white bike l saw in the road was behind the lorry. No idea whether it belonged to the rider in question but I didn't see anyone around it so I guess it was?

  • Well, you usually can't infer much from what you saw after a crash. There are a number of possible reasons why it was there. Unfortunately, we also don't seem to get a lot of reporting on crashes after the first article any more, and that's usually very bare and based on the police press release. Before its coronavirus-related staff purge, the Standard usually sent a reporter to the scene who wrote a proper piece, and there were also often follow-up articles, but now they rarely do that any more, and neither do the local papers, mostly.

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