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Crash on Chapmans peak (10/06/12)


Zac.A

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Anybody know if the guy is ok and what exactly happened?

rode past and saw him on the roof of a car with some people helping him, was absolutely stunned and shocked.

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On a roof of a car?? Sheesh!!

 

Ja, from what I could gather the driver was going into one of those view points, and didn't look or something, and hit the cyclist coming down, the car was on the wrong side of the road with his bike on the windscreen and him on the roof.

 

When I rode past he was conscious, I think, but it didn't look very good.

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I must have just missed it by minutes. I saw you coming down Zac....I was thru the canopy section already.

Could have been worse.....

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Ja, from what I could gather the driver was going into one of those view points, and didn't look or something, and hit the cyclist coming down, the car was on the wrong side of the road with his bike on the windscreen and him on the roof. When I rode past he was conscious, I think, but it didn't look very good.

SHEEESH!!!!!

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I must have just missed it by minutes. I saw you coming down Zac....I was thru the canopy section already.

Could have been worse.....

 

That was on the way out, this happened coming down the Hout Bay side, crash must've been around 12ish I think, was 1 or 2 km away from the construction site...

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It seems to have been Gert Wilkins farther of Travys Wilkins - this is what is on his facebook page!

 

 

This is what happens when motorist are negligent and forget that they are not the only ones using the roads. Today my father got taken out on chappies - thankfully he is fine and has just been discharged from hospital, but this is a lucky case and unfortunately there have been others that have not been as lucky! I Pray for softness and patience in motorists attitudes towards cyclists and vice versa! Be safe out there — with Gert Wilkins.

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It seems to have been Gert Wilkins farther of Travys Wilkins - this is what is on his facebook page!

 

 

 

This is what happens when motorist are negligent and forget that they are not the only ones using the roads. Today my father got taken out on chappies - thankfully he is fine and has just been discharged from hospital, but this is a lucky case and unfortunately there have been others that have not been as lucky! I Pray for softness and patience in motorists attitudes towards cyclists and vice versa! Be safe out there — with Gert Wilkins.

 

Also a picture, not sure if it should be posted though.

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Good grief , you weren't kidding about the "on the roof of a car" part.

 

Get well soon Mr. Wilkins

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cool words by the son no, moaning and going on about it

hope the oom recovers quickly

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