Cyclist suffers puncture wound from homemade nail trap
A mountain biker in Scotland has raised the alarm about homemade nail traps deliberately hidden on a popular trail, after he was left with a puncture wound from a trap which also slashed both his tyres.
> "Why would someone do this?": Police investigate as boy's neck cut after cycling into wire hung across path next to school Mr Kent agreed it looked"like the same culprit" and that it is concerning that they do not know"how many other devices are up there". There has been a concerning increase in such incidents in recent years, numerous cases across England, Scotland and Wales being reported since the Covid pandemic., suffering a concussion, a broken collarbone and three fractured ribs, after being brought down by a wire trap stretched across a bike path.We’ve noticed you’re using an ad blocker. If you like road.cc, but you don’t like ads, please consider subscribing to the site to support us directly. As a subscriber you can read road.
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