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@Charlie_L
We don't know if the bike rider was on the road or on the pavement cycle track. Cars have in the past crashed onto the footway on this bit of road. I ride this route often but have never noticed the little crossing lane for riders who have been caught out on the Mountbatten Way/Millbrook 6 lane highway. The crossing is unmarked and goes over the slip road just after the 40mph sign where cars accelerate to the dual carriageway. After the crash police closed both the cycle track and the slip road for over 4 hours.
You need to be a magician to find the safe routes in Southampton. There is no wayfinding signs for westbound rider near here. People coming from Paynes road are directed onto the bus lane which feeds into the slip road.
I think the crash might have happened just west of (behind) the google map image. Driving here is often hairy with the slip road joining fast traffic. The cycle track here is about 2 metres wide, it is shared with pedestrians and is two way, immediately beside a 40mph dual carriageway. There is no coherent route on the other side of the highway. It is the scariest bit of the route between Totton and Southampton station.