The driver of the car that hit Wiggins, a local woman, was said to be unhurt.
At times I still find British humor hard to identify with certainty.
2012-11-08 13:19:42
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Bradley Wiggins hit by car while training in UK
"LONDON (AFP) — Tour de France champion and Olympic gold medallist Bradley Wiggins was in hospital on Wednesday after being hit by a car while riding his bike near his family home in Lancashire, north-west England, police said.
However, a police spokesman said the British cycling star’s injuries were “not thought to be life-threatening”.
Wiggins, 32, was thrown off his bike when hit by a car believed to have pulled out of a gas station before colliding with him. Wiggins is known to often go for training rides on rural roads in the area.
The accident happened at approximately 6:00 pm in Wrightson, Lancashire, near Wiggins’ family home in Eccleston, and took place just months after he called for drivers and cyclists to “co-exist” following a fatal accident near London’s Olympic Park.
The driver of the car that hit Wiggins, a local woman, was said to be unhurt. [...]
Garage attendant Yasmin Smith, who went to Wiggins’ aid, told the Lancashire Evening Post: “By the time I got there he had moved to a safer place but was still on the ground and he was in a lot of pain. He said he thought he had broken his ribs and while a lot of police cars arrived it was about 15 minutes before the ambulance got there, by which time he was blue.”
http://velonews.competitor.com/2012/11/news/wiggins-hit-by-car-while-training-in-uk_264312
2012-11-08 03:17:09
I think they are somehow required to comment on the welfare of the driver. Sot of like how they always have to say whether the cyclist was wearing a helmet or not.
2012-11-08 13:36:49
"We've all got to co-exist on the roads. Cyclists are never going to go away as much as drivers moan,and as much as cyclists maybe moan about certain drivers they are never going to go away, so there's got to be a bit of give and take."-Wiggo quote after being knocked off of his bicycle.
2012-11-08 13:58:02
... i thought that was his line after the cyclist was killed by the Olympic shuttle bus in London?
2012-11-08 18:12:19