Council urged to review Cinder Track’s safety as school route after ‘high-speed collision between cyclists’
Concerns have been raised about the safety of the Cinder Track’s use as a school route between Whitby and Stainsacre, following a reported ‘high-speed collision between cyclists’.
Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for Scarborough and Whitby, Alison Hume, said the accident occurred on a 2.26-mile stretch of the route on which “North Yorkshire Council expects children from Stainsacre to walk to the newly-named Whitby School”.
She added that she was “deeply concerned that young children walking to school will be mixed up with high-speed cyclists” when the Whitby secondary schools merger takes effect in September, after Eskdale School closes – and said that the council had not adequately taken the safety of children into account when declaring it “suitable for children to walk”.