A cyclist who suffered a fatal head injury after hitting a large crack in a rural Lancashire road would not have died if a council had fixed it, a coroner concluded.
Harry Colledge, 84, died in hospital after he was flung from his bike on Island Lane in Winmarleigh on January 2. Coroner Kate Bisset said Lancashire County Council failed to previously identify or repair the crack. Recording a narrative verdict, she said if the road had been repaired the previous October it was “more likely than not that he would not have died”. The council has said it was aware of the coroner's findings and would be “considering” them “thoroughly and carefully”.
Mark O’Donnell, the county council’s highways manager, told the inquest that though the images were shared at a meeting of the council’s “pothole team”, none of the four workers sent to assess the road were shown the photographs. They failed to spot the cracks during the September 2022 inspection.
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