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Just seen this on his Twitter 🙁
https://mobile.twitter.com/Chris_Boardman/status/754708455622049792/photo/1
🙁 🙁
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very sad for the Boardman family, [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03z8l9c ]nice interview with him here[/url], comes across as a decent human being so a credit to his mother.
Sad news 🙁
I wondered why David Millar was at the desk for the TdF post ride analysis yesterday.
Sudden bereavement is a real shock to friends and family.
No way! So sad. 🙁
So sad , have cycled that road a few times,and its a 30 mph road.
Very sad news. She sounds a pretty interesting person.
Sounds like she lived a great life and was loved and appreciated by those around her.
Can't ask for much more I guess, but a real loss to the family.
Sad news indeed. A really lovely family.
Always feels terribly ironic when someone who vocally campaigns for something (in this case cycle safety) is impacted by it after the fact. I hope his very sensible input into the issue is not lessened in the eyes of others now it might be seen to be emotionally driven.
Sad news indeed, it was only back in February(?) Chris was not happy about how close a lorry passed his mum in pretty grim weather conditions. 🙁
Sad news. A couple of friends have had contact in the past with Chris Boardman, and he's a decent guy.
Mrs Boardman in the hi viz yellow jacket
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/cyclist-chris-boardmans-mum-carol-11626880
as reported yesterday.
http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/connahs-quay-crash-leaves-cyclist-11624385
Sad news. RIP
Really sad news, thoughts go out to all the family
Really sad news and must be especially difficult for CB given his cycling safety advocacy.
RIP
Some lovely words from Chris Boardman about his mother put up at the end of the tdf highlights today fittingly (imo) focused on the very positive things and influence she seems to have had in her life. 🙁
Was really shocked to see that at the end of the TDF highlights. Obviously an inspiration and such a sad loss.
http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/carol-boardman-killed-while-cycling-by-a-motorist/019830
some bastard killed her a hit and run, failure to stop.
That should at least guarantee a very lengthy spell in jail, not that a jail sentence can in any way possibly offer any recompense to Chris and his extended family, sad news.
focused on the very positive things and influence she seems to have had in her life.
Ms. Oldman suggested she could well be considered the catalyst that propelled British Cycling to where it is now. Though on the other hand, Chris just lost his mum, which is desperately sad.
So sad 😥
Unfortunately some of the media (the BBC included) have the headline that she was killed in a bike crash. Rather than "Killed by car". Softening the headline does nothing useful, Chris Boardman and his family don't have their grief lessened by whitewashing what happened.
Thoughts with the family and friends
"Killed by car".
I think you mean "killed by a driver".
Anyway, it's a brutally unfair and untimely way to lose a mother of her stature.
Bloody hell.
Absolutely awful news and thoughts are with Keith, Chris, Lisa and the rest of the family.
I am forever disgusted and depressed by the behaviour of human beings to one another, whether it's the terrible events currently going on around the world, or turning your back when you've left someone in terrible distress…..driving away from an accident is nothing less than sickening….poor Carol RIP
An awful tragedy
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/17/chris-boardman-mother-killed-in-cycling-accident
Guadian gets this wrong as well.
Killed in 'accident' in headline
"Chris has announced.....accident" - his statement said collision
Lets try again.
Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman's mother killed by hit and run driver while cycling.
the beeb and grauniad are not reporting it as a "hit and run" either. 😕
they say "Police seeking witnesses". Bikebiz unambiguously reports "Driver did not stop at the scene"
wouldn't police phrase it as "seeking the driver of a white Mitsubishi L200 pick up" though ?
I've tweeted Carlton Reid about the "hit and run" claim. If he gets back to me I'll let you know!
[url= http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/chris-boardman-mother-carol-cyclist-killed-riding-bike-north-wales-a7141846.html ]The Independent has gone with "killed while riding bike"[/url] which I think is a good choice of words while we have so little info.
No mention of hit and run or "seeking the driver of" the white pickup.
I wonder how the police know [believe] it was a white L200. I doubt many eyewitnesses would have been able to be so specific about the model. They may have analysed the paint?
So sad that a man who has campaigned so much for safer cycling looses his mother to a hit and run driver... RIP and condolences to the family.
wouldn't police phrase it as "seeking the driver of a white Mitsubishi L200 pick up" though ?
BikeBiz - Police are seeking the driver of a white Mitsubishi L200 pick-up truck, which did not stop at the scene
I wonder how the police know [believe] it was a white L200. I doubt many eyewitnesses would have been able to be so specific about the model.
It was here - https://goo.gl/maps/EcPQDU9viBF2
Unlikely no other vehicles in sight on a Saturday afternoon and she may not have been cycling alone. I'm pretty good at car models but taking a full or even partial registration in the heat of the moment when a vehicles disappearing into the distance is a real challenge.
This is the latest on the North Wales Police website - http://www.north-wales.police.uk/news-and-appeals/rtc-connah%E2%80%99s-quay-%E2%80%93sad-death-of-carol-boardman-and-tribute-from-her-family.aspx No mention of looking for driver just asking for witnesses.
Doesn't sound like a hit and run - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-36828839
not quite.
The article still says that she died as a result of a collision with a pick up truck, and that the driver has been spoken to.
They are asking for witnesses, one assumes because there's no/too litte evidence that it was the white truck to make an arrest at the moment.
There is some third hand information in this article which may challenge some assumptions about events.
Full references via this page.
http://beyondthekerb.org.uk/incident/2919
A tragic loss regardless of the details of what happened, of course.
Show a little class people!
Please let's not do the standard STW thing this time and pick over the media report, internet sleuthing an incident we couldn't possibly know anything about...
It's neither helpful or particularly sensitive.
Sympathies to the Boardman family and friends.