why is this even up for debate?

[AndyBike]

am guessing - and I don't know, but here it is - that the driver who knocked over that cyclist near GlenCoe who had been at a public house where he and his brother had been with an estate shooting party was most likely well over the drink driving limit,

In sections its quite a tight road, couple that with the total lack of light. My experience up there is people, especially locals drive like they've the devil on their tail as they are very familiar with the road/route.
Several times especially going through Rannoch moor I've had to get off the bike because a vehicle has passed me what must be close to 80 or 90mph.
And you dont hear them either till they fly past, mostly with only feet off to your side. Scares the utter hell out of you.

A friend and myself used to camp in Glen Etive, probably 6 or 7 times a year so were used to traffic up there, and even in the dusk hours we've had locals blast past at really high speed and only with the side lights on.

The roads arent really policed, and locals come out the pub then drive home at speed because they know the road and way home intimately.

 

[Tony1951]

I just watched two programmes about this case of the missing cyclist on Iplayer.

Both the circumstances and the wickedness of the actions carried out by the McKellar brothers on the night of Tony Parson's death and afterwards seem even more horrible when presented in the documentary. They would have been tried for murder had the key witness not suffered a breakdown so that she could not be made to testify and the case took a step backwards when the brother who was driving pleaded guilty to Culpable Homicide on day 3 of the trial. The fact that they knew Parsons was still alive, but did nothing to help and hid his body before returning later to store him in a tarpaulin, and later bury him in a peat bog is almost incomprehensibly evil.

In the dock at the sentencing, both of them were in tears. I credit them that by then, they understood what they had done.

Murder Case - The Vanishing Cyclist: Episode 1

While embarking on a charity cycle ride, 63-year-old former navy officer Tony Parsons vanishes without a trace. This astonishing case unravels in ways no-one could predict.

www.bbc.co.uk

Two episodes - worth watching.

You have to wonder about the life experiences of people who act in so callous a fashion. What is it which makes some people so utterly empty of normal sentiment?

 

[Nealh]

One expects the tears were crocodile tears rather than real ones from remorse.