2023-08-23 Rider down Southampton, Millbrook

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23741978.cyclists-injured-crash-millbrook-road-west/
This looks serious the road and cycle track have been closed for almost four hours. I went past site on the train. It is just where Paynes road slip joins the main road. I hope the rider pulls through.

Thanks, Charlie. I take it you mean this spot?

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.9122373,-1.434802,3a,72.6y,137.37h,82.97t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sbH0FYel2AooGv5f_jMzh1w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?entry=ttu

The headline on that news stub says 'cyclists'.

I live just down the road in Fareham and was riding through Southampton this morning (4am) I hate riding there. It’s better now I’ve got a wahoo to navigate me through it, but I’ve ended up on this bit of road by mistake a couple of time, really scary

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.

Not much of an update in the echo…
https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/23744844.millbrook-road-west-cyclist-fighting-life-crash/