Police have now confirmed the identity of the cyclist who died following a road traffic collision near Dechmont on Wednesday 27 February.
He was Gwyndaf Bailey from Livingston.
The 37-year-old was cycling east when he was involved in a collision with a Mercedes C220 car that was travelling west at the access road to Bangour Hospital on the A89.
Emergency services attended the scene but sadly Mr Bailey was pronounced dead on the way to hospital by medics. The 45-year-old male driver of the car was uninjured.
Sergeant Jill Kirkpatrick from Livingston’s Road Policing Unit said: “Our deepest sympathies continue to be with Mr Bailey’s family and friends as they come to terms with their loss and we have specialist officers supporting them at this time.
“Our inquiries into what happened remain ongoing and I’d like to thank those witnesses who have assisted us so far with our investigation.
“I’d urge anyone with information who has not yet spoken to officers to contact Police Scotland on 101, quoting incident number 2915 of 27th February.”
John graduated from Telford College in 2010 with an HNC in Practical Journalism and since then he worked for the North Edinburgh News, The Southern Reporter, the Irish News Review and The Edinburgh Reporter. In addition he has been published in the Edinburgh Evening News and the Hibernian FC Programme.
