Alternatives to the Surrey Canal Walk

Hanuman, could it not also have been avoided if you had both been riding more slowly? Unfortunately, the path is as it is...as my driving instructor said to me years ago, every time I began to moan about something or someone else on the road, as an excuse for something I had done wrong "You must drive appropriately for the conditions as they are, not as you would like them to be"
If you were going fast enough for a "spectacular" crash, and don't really want to moderate your speed, then try the road alternative.

Whilst that is entirely reasonable point of view, I think its fine to call out bad infrastructure if you see it no? Otherwise, how would anything ever change? This is a part of the path that could be really easily fixed. At the moment, it has mirrors to enable you to see round a corner which are next to useless in the dark. (my crash was after 11pm)

Its quite easy to have a spectacular crash at any speed, especially in the dark, on a path with blind corners where the ground drops away steeply. Going more slowly might have helped but there were a lot of other factors involved, most of which would have been fixed by a simple redesign...