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@Oliver Schick
According to the time triallists' forum, this is the general area where it happened, at the southbound exit slip road from the A1 to the B1048 Cross Hall Road:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=B1048,+Eaton+Ford,+St+Neots,+Cambridgeshire+PE19,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=10.28957,28.300781&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=Fd7-HAMducn7_w&split=0&ll=52.236789,-0.284271&spn=0.002602,0.006909&z=17
Also from that forum, link to a local news story:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=413806
As they say on there, the usual preoccupation with people's convenience and apologies from the police (presumably on behalf of the cyclist) for the road closure. The most disgusting example that I've seen of this sort of focus on traffic was the BBC report around Wan-Chen McGuinness' death in Holborn last September.
The risk on courses like this is not so much caused by vehicles travelling alongside riders but at the inevitable spearpoint junctions formed by such slip roads.
Time triallists will of course continue to ride along fast dual carriageways, and in particular along the A1, much as time trialling has, for obvious reasons, been driven away from these roads.
A very sad incident.