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A cyclist narrowly escaped injury after riding into barbed wire strung across a pathway.

Kat Slater was cycling towards Bradley Lakes with her husband Tony on Sunday.

The couple were part way down an access road when Kat rode into a piece of barbed wire strung up between two hedges across a pathway.

She caught her pedals around it but managed to avoid a serious injury.

They said it was “18 inches off the ground” and its placement was “clearly intentional”.

(Image: Kat Slater Faraway)

Kat said: “I ran into barbed wire stretched knee height across the track leading to Bradley Lakes.

“I actually rode into it and the barbed wire wrapped around my pedals.”

Tony believes it could have caused serious injury to anyone passing through the route, especially children, dogs and horses.

He said: “I can’t say who they were trying to target or why. It may well have just been a good laugh for them.”

Tony caught sight of the barbed wire just in time to save Kat from injury, but not in time to prevent her from colliding with it.

“I caught sight of it and shouted to stop. She wasn’t going very fast – it could have been a lot worse if she was”, said Tony.

(Image: Kat Slater Faraway)

“I just saw this flash in front of my face. I didn’t realise what it was at first – I just shouted her to stop.

“The sun was shining down that way so she wouldn’t have seen it. I just so happened to see this flicker in time.”

The couple regularly cycle down this access road and say they have never come across “anything remotely similar”.

Tony added: “We regularly go down there. There’s a lot who use it – horse riders, dog walkers and people going to the lakes.

“I’ve heard about this happening in the countryside elsewhere but I have never heard of it here. People do a lot of silly things.”

Kat and Tony are urging people to remain vigilant when walking or cycling in Grimsby and Cleethorpes, especially around Bradley Lakes.

“We have warned people in our community in groups online so people now know about it,” said Tony. “It just shouldn’t have happened. It shouldn’t have been there.”

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