Incident at Cycling SA Road Champs

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Cycling South Africa regrets to report on the unfortunate incident involving a cyclist and heavy motor vehicle on during the SA National Road Championships on Wednesday 8 February 2017.

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[Meezo]

wow, really unexpected, strongs to the rider, but damn this is a wake up call for cycling awareness(or lack there of)

[shaper]

Speedy recovery!!

['Dale]

Eina

Sterkte ????????????????

[Napalm]

Was there no road closure?

[Tubehunter]

Speedy recovery to the cyclist. With it being South African champs you would think that the organisers would know the riders are going to race head down time trialling. Not too clever to have this on open roads....

[Skubarra]

Terrible accident, really gutted for Paul - he was hurt badly. Just an update, his knee was operated on last night and this morning they are operating on his back.

[OemD]

the road is closed for traffic...however the farms on the inside still has access to the route. So, it must have been a farming heavy vehicle. 

 

All the best to Paul.

[varkie2]

I also drove past a high school kid on monday just opposite soneike mall where he rode into the back of a stationary car that was parked in the yellow lane. Dont know how he did it. Broke his arm and was pretty bloody in the face and mouth.Its chaos on the roads. I have scaled down my riding a bit during this time and doing more chores around the house and gym/swim. I have a 2 month old at home and it freaks me the hell out to think that it could be me.

[rattlesnake]

This is just unacceptable. Race organisers really need to start taking responsibility for route safety..... ESPECIALLY at national champs. I place the blame squarely on CSA's shoulders here.

[EmptyB]

Speedy recovery to the rider.

 

Still ridiculous during SA road champs that this even happened....

[Ttocs]

This is just unacceptable. Race organisers really need to start taking responsibility for route safety..... ESPECIALLY at national champs. I place the blame squarely on CSA's shoulders here.

Second this comment. Nice they put out a notice on this, but come on, this is the Nationals

[gogo@]

Details of how the vehicle landed up on the course?

[Slowbee]

There be alot of questions here that need answering.

['Dale]

Terrible accident, really gutted for Paul - he was hurt badly. Just an update, his knee was operated on last night and this morning they are operating on his back.

Ai ????

[RocknRolla]

I thought this is exactly the reason for CSA sanctioning an event, Rider safety.

This is competently unacceptable.

 

CSA is a complete farce, typical of a SA "governing" body.

 

Speedy recovery to Paul, I hope he lawyers up and takes CSA to book.