Hi all, Im Mark one of the riders down on Smitswinkel. I am an F rider we caught up to E group at Kommetjie. Was a nice group guys were pushing hard. We started down Smitswinkel and were prob doing about 65 odd, it seemed there was just too little road and too much action. There was already an accident at the spot and when motorbikers came from front i got pushed off the left side into gutter. I fell quite cleanly only skidding and coming to halt in gutter, when i looked up the motor bike had fallen and was revving flat out, biker was stuck underneath and everyone just ran away, it sounded like it was going to explode. I managed to help the motorbike dude away from bike he was quite hurt and couldnt get away from it. Chris the guy that hit the motorbike is really badly hurt, saw his girlfriend at hospital yesterday again she said he still critical and going for more surgery, it seems his head is ok though. He has bad internal bleeding from liver damage . . They seemed to have saved his arm though!! We are really praying and thinking of you Chris, hang in there. . It was a terrible experience, no signal to phone for help, or to contact family. Im a bit unhappy with event organisers we must have been there for about and hour and a half and saw no event people, we had to beg lifts from other guys to get us back to start. We pay a PPA membership fee and have all sorts of emergency contact numbers etc but there was no one to help. Anyway thank you to the cyclists who helped, 2 ladies who where paramedics stopped to help Chris we had no idea what to do, also Gerhard who stopped to help the first cyclist down, he got hit by the motorbike while helping... Thanx to guys who gave us a lift home will see you guys on road soon!!
