Dronfield Bypass - Cyclist killed.

[No User Name 10]

https://web.archive.org/web/20021209110405/http://www.chestertri.org.uk/friar02_results.htm

 

Malcolm Cottam

[Eater Sundae 12]

No User Name. Good find, but I think you should delete your post until it is confirmed. And of course pass on what you have found.

[No User Name 10]

No User Name. Good find, but I think you should delete your post until it is confirmed. And of course pass on what you have found.

 

Why? Its all over the BBC Local Live ticker (I cant claim the credit for finding it, it's on there)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-28655390

[Hinzy9 10]

https://web.archive.org/web/20021209110405/http://www.chestertri.org.uk/friar02_results.htm

 

Malcolm Cottam

 

Perhaps the police hadn't explored it after all.....

[Eater Sundae 12]

Why? Its all over the BBC Local Live ticker (I cant claim the credit for finding it, it's on there)

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-28655390

 

Oh, I see, sorry. It looked like you'd found the race result

[No User Name 10]

Oh, I see, sorry. It looked like you'd found the race result

 

Nah, Im not that clever

 

Although I did look for the other one after finding that on the BBC website (the Barnsley one) and no traces of it. Was 24 years ago, mind.

 

Perhaps the police hadn't explored it after all.....

 

Utterly staggering if they hadnt. Basic stuff, this.

[Eater Sundae 12]

Perhaps the police hadn't explored it after all.....

 

It looks a bit like that, doesn't it. A pretty obvious and easy to follow up clue, you would think.

 

Incredible if they hadn't.

 

Edit. it's nearly a week since he was killed, and only now are the triathlon links brought up.

Edited August 6, 2014 by Eater Sundae

[F. Sidebottom 10]

The thing you have to be careful of here is the assumption that he wore that helmet and race number for that race. He may have bought that helmet from a charity shop with the sticker on. Imagine the initial reaction of the family of tri-athlete 100 of the Friar Tuck 2002 triathlon, if people spread the word on social media that he is deceased, and it turned out not to be him.

Edited August 6, 2014 by F. Sidebottom

[No User Name 10]

The thing you have to be careful of here is the assumption that he wore that helmet and race number for that race. He may have bought that helmet from a charity shop with the sticker on. Imagine the initial reaction of the family of tri-athlete 100 of the Friar Tuck 2002 triathlon (Malcom Cottam), if people spread the word on social media that he is deceased, and it turned out not to be him.

 

Good thought but why would he leave a battered sticker on there that had no connection to him?

 

Anyway its a line of enquiry for them.

 

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http://www.dewsburyroadrunners.co.uk/cgi/profile.php?index=61900&PHPSESSID=ce9b0b9e747e6f34b43fc56aef732eec

 

Says he is 67, but may not have been updated recently? Then again, all those results have him in the M55 category and the top of the page says he is now in the M65 one.

 

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Malcolm Cottam is also mentioned on the 19th page of this

 

http://www.stjameschurch.org/insight/2011_04-05.pdf

 

Even a phone number for him on there.

Edited August 6, 2014 by No User Name

[Hinzy9 10]

Sure the current owner of the helmet may not be the same person that took part in the triathlon in 2002 but it's a bloody good starting point isn't it. Especially as he was wearing a ‘Barnsley Metrodome Triathlon 1990' t shirt as well.

 

To be honest I'm shocked by sheer incompetence of the police in this matter. This isn't just a failure of basic policing practices its a failure of basic common sense.

 

Say you'd found a cycle helmet at the side of the road with a Friar Tuck Triathlon 2002- Race number 100 sticker on it. You were keen to see it returned to its owner, surely the first thing anyone would do is go online and try and find the triathlon results or failing that contact the club who organised the event.

 

You don't need to be Bergerac to work this one out do you!

[No User Name 10]

http://www.openupsheffield.co.uk/artists/Cottam_Malcolm.php

 

Same phone number as on that St James newsletter I posted above.

 

http://www.sheffieldtelegraph.co.uk/news/local/malcolm-wins-award-as-green-hero-1-1654280

 

Anyone live near Norton Park Crescent?

Edited August 6, 2014 by No User Name

[Sazz1006 10]

I was in the tailbacks last Thursday and couldn't get the sight out of my mind, even though apart from the bike and a car on a closed road there was nothing really to indicate what had happened. When I heard the details I couldn't stop thinking about it but was thinking of the reasons he hasn't been identified: someone who lived on his own, someone whose work colleagues wouldn't miss him not being there, a teacher perhaps? Someone whose neighbours would think he was on holiday? Awful situation.