biker jk wrote:There seems to be some confusion.
The Police statement says,
Preliminary information indicates the woman was riding down a steep gradient on Marine Parade around 6.10am when she collided with a utility that was travelling in the opposite direction before turning right into Petrie Street.
The Gold Coast Bulletin article say,
The woman was riding down Petrie St at Coolangatta near Snapper Rocks at 6.15am when a ute, turning right from Marine Pde, collided with the bike.
Yes, there definitely seems to be some confusion as to exactly what happened. One of the following two scenarios.
1. She was travelling down Petrie and had a head on with the ute coming up the hill from Marine and turning right into Petrie. Narrow road, ute may have been partially on the wrong side of the road, cyclist may have been travelling wide to take the corner at speed.
OR
2. She was traveling down Tweed Terrace (which is basically a continuous road with with Marine Pde but just a different name above that intersection) and the ute failed to give way and turned right directly across her path.
Both the news_com_au story and the police media release suggest the latter scenario, but the gold coast bulletin suggests the first one. In the second the scenario it's much clearer that the driver is at fault, but not so clear if it's the first one.
You would think that the Police Media release would be most likely to be the correct one, so that makes the second scenario with the driver "right hooking" her as human said.
HOWEVER, looking at the images of where the damage is on the car and where the bike ended up, I've got to say that it seems much more likely to be the first case as the GC bulletin reports. I say this because the damage appears to be on the far right front side (driver's side) of the ute where as I would have expected the other side if the driver rturned right across her path as she was coming straight down the hill. Also, if she did manage to contact the right side of the ute in this scenario it would have been more of a glancing impact and she and the bike would have ended up much further down the hill than shown in the photos.
If on the other hand she was coming down Petrie and it was a head on with the driver turning right into Petrie, then the area of damage to the car and the final position of the bike makes a lot more sense (to me).