And sadly, so it starts ..... Please be safe, children!

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And sadly, so it starts ..... Please be safe, children!

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Quite strange, how it could be so serious on a road with a 40mph limit ..... :roll: :cry:
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what can you do though?

It's pretty unforgiving up there, if you leave the road there are a lot of large granite rocks to bounce off of. Hopefully they have a quick recovery and the police don't go too nuts in the aftermath of it all.
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Claire & I got stopped yesterday by this one near Winkleigh Football ground.

https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-ne ... ar-4163591
https://news.ukcophumour.co.uk/serious- ... igh-devon/

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TLS-Moose wrote: May 25th, '20, 23:13 https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-ne ... n=sharebar

Quite strange, how it could be so serious on a road with a 40mph limit ..... :roll: :cry:
A head-on collision with both vehicles observing the speed limit would give a closing speed of 80mph - that'd sting a bit.... fingers crossed that both riders involved make a good recovery.
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Not sounding good news.
Any crash is not great.
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