Hayley Squire's plea to cyclists to stop using 'danger' road
By Dover Express Wednesday, October 09, 2013
By Dover Express Wednesday, October 09, 2013
Hayley Squire and Symon Squire: "This road is dangerous enough for cars, let alone bikes"
WHEN Hayley Squire sees cyclists using the A258, an urge comes over her to ask them to stop what they are doing.
Her brother Daniel was just 18 when he was involved in a collision with a van on the Dover-Deal route, just 400 yards from their father’s home in Ringwould on September 7.
Mum-of-one Hayley said: “If I see one now, I just want to stop and say ‘Why are you doing it? You must be mad’. The road is dangerous enough for cars, let alone bikes.”
What made it even more heart-breaking for the family was the teenager’s previous refusal to cycle the road.
Daniel had always been encouraged to use alternative, safer routes and his father said it was the first time he had ever chosen to ride the A258.
Mystery
Father Symon, a logistics manager at London Fancy Box in Dover where Daniel was also working, said: “We used to drive along and he would say, ‘look there’s a cyclist, they shouldn’t be doing that’.
“Why he was cycling that road, that’s the big unanswered question I’ve got.
“He was only 400 yards from my house. We’re both members of Deal Tri Club and we were meant to be riding that morning.
“I was on the ride when I heard about what had happened.”
Safety campaign: Signs to safer alternative routes
Mr Squire now wants to put his energies towards preventing similar accidents in the future.
He said: “I’m planning a committee to make the road safer. We could put signs up at either end saying there are alternative, preferred routes for cyclists with limited traffic on them.”
As well as their road safety campaigning, the family will also get active over the coming months.
They plan to compete in the Deal Five-Miler run on November 3 in Daniel’s memory, raising money for Kent Air Ambulance.
It transported Daniel to The Royal London hospital following the collision, and helped give the family the opportunity to donate his organs.
Mr Squire said: “They kept his organs going at the scene, and it’s meant that Daniel’s been able to help four families.”
A charity netball match is also planned at his former school St Edmund’s, and Symon will take his son’s place in the Iron Man UK race in Bolton next July, using the youngster’s bike.
To donate visit https://www.justgiving.com/Danielsymonsquire
Read more: http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Hayley-Squire-s-plea-cyclists-stop-using-danger/story-19908287-detail/story.html#ixzz2mDbKL0Qg
Her brother Daniel was just 18 when he was involved in a collision with a van on the Dover-Deal route, just 400 yards from their father’s home in Ringwould on September 7.
Mum-of-one Hayley said: “If I see one now, I just want to stop and say ‘Why are you doing it? You must be mad’. The road is dangerous enough for cars, let alone bikes.”
What made it even more heart-breaking for the family was the teenager’s previous refusal to cycle the road.
Daniel had always been encouraged to use alternative, safer routes and his father said it was the first time he had ever chosen to ride the A258.
Mystery
Father Symon, a logistics manager at London Fancy Box in Dover where Daniel was also working, said: “We used to drive along and he would say, ‘look there’s a cyclist, they shouldn’t be doing that’.
“Why he was cycling that road, that’s the big unanswered question I’ve got.
“He was only 400 yards from my house. We’re both members of Deal Tri Club and we were meant to be riding that morning.
“I was on the ride when I heard about what had happened.”
Safety campaign: Signs to safer alternative routes
Mr Squire now wants to put his energies towards preventing similar accidents in the future.
He said: “I’m planning a committee to make the road safer. We could put signs up at either end saying there are alternative, preferred routes for cyclists with limited traffic on them.”
As well as their road safety campaigning, the family will also get active over the coming months.
They plan to compete in the Deal Five-Miler run on November 3 in Daniel’s memory, raising money for Kent Air Ambulance.
It transported Daniel to The Royal London hospital following the collision, and helped give the family the opportunity to donate his organs.
Mr Squire said: “They kept his organs going at the scene, and it’s meant that Daniel’s been able to help four families.”
A charity netball match is also planned at his former school St Edmund’s, and Symon will take his son’s place in the Iron Man UK race in Bolton next July, using the youngster’s bike.
To donate visit https://www.justgiving.com/Danielsymonsquire
Read more: http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Hayley-Squire-s-plea-cyclists-stop-using-danger/story-19908287-detail/story.html#ixzz2mDbKL0Qg