A sheriff has outlined four “reasonable precautions” which might have avoided a Dumfries woman’s fatal bicycle fall while delivering phone directories.

Sheila Hyslop, 50, died four days after the incident on Albert Road in March last year.

A fatal accident inquiry concluded a number of actions might have helped to avoid her death.

They were not overloading her bike with directories, reducing her speed, having roadworthy brakes and wearing a helmet.

The inquiry had heard that on the day of her fall Ms Hyslop, of Loch Road, Dumfries, had earlier collected telephone directories from a local distribution centre.

It was told she had been carrying about 80 when the accident happened.

The inquiry also heard that she was seen going down a hill quite quickly towards a speed bump and then came down.

She was taken to the Western General Hospital with head injuries but died as a result of a traumatic brain injury.