PEOPLE whose road safety fears have been renewed after the death of a scooter rider in Chester are being urged to attend a meeting tomorrow. 

Father-of-two Karol Kunicki, 34, from Hoole, died after a crash on the railway bridge on Hoole Way.

It is understood Mr Kunicki, who was Polish, was travelling back to his home in Hoole on Sunday evening after getting a tattoo of his son’s name on his neck.

Mr Kunicki got engaged in 2013 to 19-year-old Ania Monika Cicha, also Polish and the couple had celebrated the birth of a son a month ago. 

He also leaves a young daughter from a previous relationship.

A meeting has now been called at The Faulkner pub in Faulkner Street, Hoole, at 11am tomorrow where Mr Kunicki had worked previously.

There, concerns about road safety on the bridge will be reinforced and renewed calls for a pedestrian only bridge are almost certain to be made.

It is also likely there will be a collection for Mr Kunicki’s family.

Mr Kunicki had worked at a number of hotels and restaurants in the Chester area.

For the last nine months he had worked on the breakfast shift at the Brookside Hotel on Brook Lane, Newton and also worked as a kitchen porter at the Siam Thai and Teppan-yaki restaurant on City Road, Chester and helped occasionally at the sister Thai restaurant the Ruan Orchid on Lower Bridge Street, Chester.

He had worked previously at The Premier Inn in Chester, The Faulkner in Hoole and the Ring o’ Bells in Christleton.

His boss at the Brookside Hotel, Richard Mansel-Edwards, said Mr Kunicki was a “proper gentleman”.

Mr Mansel-Edwards, general manager a and partner in the hotel, said: “He was an amazing guy. 

“He was hard-working, a real family man, sweet and a proper gentleman. 

“He had a big heart and he loved people.

“He was a phenomenal man – gentle, thoughtful, conscientious, strong, a really nice man.”

A Cheshire Police spokesman said: “At 6.30pm on Sunday, February 22, a road traffic collision occurred on Hoole Way, Chester, whereby a Peugeot scooter left the carriageway and was in collision with the railway bridge. 

“A 34-year-old local male, who was riding, sustained serious injuries and died as a result of the collision.”

Anyone with information can call Cheshire Police on 101 quoting incident 610 of February 22.