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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)Cyclist, 14, killed in A595 collision
Officers are investigating a fatal road traffic incident after a 14-year-old cyclist was killed in a collision with a car being driven on the A595 in Cumbria.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the incident, which happened on Friday 8 April, at Prospect Hill, Waberthwaite, and involved a silver Kia Sorento.
Cumbria Police received a report of the collision at 8.06pm and confirmed the rider of the mountain bike, a 14-year-old boy from the local area, died at the scene.
The road was closed for an extended period of time and officers are now appealing for anyone who was in the area and may have witnessed the incident to contact them.
A spokesperson for Cumbria Police said:
Officers investigating a fatal road traffic collision on the A595 are appealing for witnesses.
At 8.06pm yesterday (8 April) police received a report of a collision on the A595 at Prospect Hill, Waberthwaite. The collision involved a silver Kia Sorento and a mountain bike.
The rider of the mountain bike, a 14-year-old boy from the local area, died at the scene.
Officers are appealing for anyone who was in the area at the time and may have witnessed this incident to contact them.
Anyone with information can report it on Cumbria Police's website, quoting incident number 172 of 8 April 2022, or by phoning 101 or emailing the Serious Collision Investigation Unit via SCIU [at] cumbria.police.uk.
Dan is the road.cc news editor and has spent the past four years writing stories and features, as well as (hopefully) keeping you entertained on the live blog. Having previously written about nearly every other sport under the sun for the Express, and the weird and wonderful world of non-league football for the Non-League Paper, Dan joined road.cc in 2020. Come the weekend you'll find him labouring up a hill, probably with a mouth full of jelly babies, or making a bonk-induced trip to a south of England petrol station... in search of more jelly babies.
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Poor kid. My thoughts go out to his family. Hopefully the usually uninterested @CumbriaPolice will start to respond when cyclists submit reports of dangerous driving.
Whilst the police should do more on reports of dangerous driving, there is no indication currently that this was anything to do with dangerous driving.
Although failing to stop at the scene and render assistance does imply that the driver is attempting to evade justice.
Does it state that elsewhere. Not seeing it here.
No, it doesn't directly state that and I may be jumping to conclusions based on no mention of the driver and the appeal for any witnesses.
I've had a quick search round and most articles quote "No further details about the driver of the car have been released to the media" which is curious.
My thoughts go out to the family and friends of the young lad.