Ok it's just that it said the passenger had died in the original report. Terrible tragedy anyway, seems to happen more and more lately around here.
We were in Betws Y Coed on Sunday lunchtime and saw that the A470 was closed when we were leaving, so took the B5106 back down to Conwy.
I think that Betws has been spoilt by the vast numbers of motorbikes that turn up there at the weekend now, it's a constant stream of revving bikes going through the town and around the Station area, there must have been a hundred or more there last Sunday. It's not what people come to the National Park for really, is it?
Couldn't agree more. I drove down to Rhayader the weekend before last and the number of motorbikes driven at stupid speeds that we came across along the route was depressing. A walk in the hills above the A5, somewhere like Moel Siabod is ruined by the constant noise of speeding bikes and 30mph zones like at the bottom of the Llanberis Pass are totally ignored as bikes pour through doing 60mph..
I happen to think Richard Brunstrom was right in his intentions when he showed the press pictures of a decapitated biker. He was trying to get the press to start backing his anti speeding campaign instead of mocking his efforts as the Mad Mullah of the Traffic Taliban.
It's not just a selfish minority either, it's a selfish majority of bikers that are a menace on North Wales roads from what I can see.
That said, I think speed traps like the one that is set up in the dip as after you go past Robertsons in Llanrhos is just a money maker and has little to do with road safety.