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Collideoscope

From Tom Fleming :-

I am getting in touch to let you know about a FREE new web-app, called Collideoscope, designed to enable cyclists to report incidents and near-misses they experience when cycling in the UK to the relevant local Council. It has been developed by ITP and mySociety to raise awareness of this road safety issue, and attempt to improve the quality of data that can be used to prioritise and design safer cycling infrastructure.

The Association of Chief Police Officers has previously indicated they believe only 1-in-12 cycle injury collisions are recorded, based on a comparison of A&E reporting and official STATS19 data. We also think there is value in collecting data on near-misses that could result in serious injuries to cyclists or other road users. This could help to highlight the locations where it is only good fortune that has prevented a large number of more serious incidents from taking place. You can find out more about why we have created the site, and our mission here.

Whilst we sincerely hope that you never have cause to use Collideoscope, we thought it made sense to get in touch and ask you to check out the site and (if you like it!) let other cyclists in your area know it exists. If you want to stay in touch with us via social media then you can find us on Facebook and twitter.

Finally, we have a number of thoughts on how we might continue to improve the site, but would love to hear any suggestions or ideas you have. Provided we can raise more sponsorship then we will be continuing to develop the site over the coming months, along with sharing anonymised injury-related data collected in London with Barts NHS Health Trust’s Bespoke Study.

Thanks for taking the time to check-out Collideoscope, and please get in touch if you need any more information.

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You’re probably all used to getting spam communications from our membership secretary, Dave Kirton, but lately I’ve taken part of that burden from him and have sent out a couple of club-wide emails.
The trouble with things like that is that you have no idea if people actually get to see them. They could end up in a junk folder or a spam folder and no one would be any the wiser.
Can I ask everyone to check their spam and junk and see if they’ve had any emails from me (I sent one today, Tuesday 21st) and they ought to be from secretary@clevelandwheelers.com. If it’s in spam or junk, do whatever you need to to make it not go there in future. Unless that’s where you actually want them to go… But I promise, my emails aren’t half as dull as Dave’s 😉

Steve

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Frank Bradley

Just to confirm that Frank Bradley’s funeral will be held at 11:00 am on Monday, 20 October at the new crematorium at the bottom of Yearby Bank in Redcar.

Please see the notice from today’s Evening Gazette.

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Frank Bradley – funeral

Frank Bradley’s funeral will be held on Monday, 20 October at the new crematorium at the bottom of Yearby Bank in Redcar.

The time is still to be confirmed.

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Let’s Get Retro

As with many of these things the idea started with a few conversations which led to something, which led to something else which ended up with me coming up with an excuse to ride my bike, as though I need one! The acquisition of an old 1970’s Coventry Eagle rescued from my uncle’s garage was the starting point I suppose. I needed to justify having it and so organised what I thought would be a ride that would attract about half a dozen or so Wheeler’s riders.