“This tragic accident took place over five years ago and we recognise that there were actions that we could have taken at the time. Her daughter Samantha said in a Facebook post that she held her mother in her final moments.Īfter the hearing, Derbyshire County Council's director of highways Julian Gould said: “We can only imagine how difficult the past few days have been for the family and friends of Mrs Dumbleton, and our thoughts remain with them. She sustained a broken neck, severe bruising to her spinal cord and went into cardiac arrest following the accident.Īfter five days of fighting for her life in a coma, the life support system was switched off. Mrs Dumbleton, according to DerbyshireLive, was thrown 60 feet in the air when she hit a manhole cover which was in a six-foot hole on Sunday, July 8. > Couple in hospital after they both crash in huge pothole The court had heard from a senior council highways manager, who conceded signs should have been put up. However, several other cyclists had fallen on the road since then and had reported it the council. The county council had inspected the road in February 2018, as part of a routine three-month check, and found no major faults. He apologised to Mrs Dumbleton's family for the five-year gap between her death and the inquest, and concluded: “It is probable she came off her bike when she encountered a badly degraded road surface.” He added that Mr and Mrs Dumbleton were "proficient and experienced" cyclists on well-maintained bikes and were not riding inappropriately fast at the time. However, the warning signs would have alerted Mrs Dumbleton, who might then have been able to slow down or take evasive action. The coroner said the poor state of the road would only have been evident when they were 20m (65ft) from it, leaving them only two seconds to react. > "What if a cyclist hits this?": Councillor raises alarm over enormous pothole big enough to stand waist-deep in According to GPS data, they were going downhill at 23mph when they reached the pothole-stricken stretch of road. Mrs Dumbleton, originally from Lincoln, and her husband Ian were keen club cyclists who had been to Derbyshire for a ride that day. “The county council should have taken some interim measures to mitigate the hazard the degrading road surface posed to road users, particularly cyclists. He said: “Quite a deep area had been hollowed out in that section, which clearly posed quite a significant hazard to cyclists. > 75-year-old cyclist suffers broken pelvis and collarbone in yet another pothole-induced accidentĭerbyshire coroner Peter Nieto said that there had been six visits by highways workers to the sites before Dumbleton was injured there. The council had decided it would carry out the repairs in August. The hearing at Chesterfield Coroner's Court was told the highways authority of the Derbyshire County Council had been made aware of the damage to the road in May 2018, when another cyclist fell on the same stretch of road. However they had not been completed before Mrs Dumbleton's accident, reports the BBC. A cyclist who lost her life in her daughter’s arms after hitting a pothole in Derbyshire, which the council had been made aware of after other cyclists had also fallen on the same road in the weeks prior, could have been saved had proper warning signage been put up, a coroner’s inquest has heard.ĥ2-year-old Carolyn Dumbleton was cycling down Willersley Lane, Cromford with her husband, when she was thrown off her bike after hitting a huge pothole and sustained fatal injuries in July 2018.Īn inquest has now heard that other riders reported falls at the same spot in the weeks before and repairs were scheduled.
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