{"id":133215,"date":"2016-01-26T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/?p=133215"},"modified":"2016-05-03T08:15:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T08:15:28","slug":"driver-facing-court-after-giant-alpecin-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2016\/01\/26\/driver-facing-court-after-giant-alpecin-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Facing Court After Giant-Alpecin crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>73-year-old British woman crashed into a group of riders from the German WorldTour team. Some of them must have been airlifted to the hospital due to the seriousness of their injuries and the photos of the accident show it must have been really scary moment.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know that crashes happen in cycling, we all do, but the nature of this one doesn\u2019t belong in sport. I saw that image of the bikes on the ground, there are no words for that. I had no words when I saw that. A lot of the other riders saw the crash and they are all shocked. They came back to the hotel and you can imagine how shocked they all were,\u201d Iwan Spekenbrink told the cyclingnews.com.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Un herido grave tras ser arrollados 6 ciclistas del equipo Giant por un coche en Benigembla <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0EP8ItxUy7\">https:\/\/t.co\/0EP8ItxUy7<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GjYjyru8KU\">pic.twitter.com\/GjYjyru8KU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; INFORMACION.es (@informacion_es) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/informacion_es\/status\/690933641451540481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>American rider Chad Haga, who was one of the seriously injured guys airlifted to the hospital, showed admirable sense of humour, when he turned to Twitter to say: \u201c&#8221;Weight loss technique for the ill-advised: smash your face on a car, you won&#8217;t eat for days.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I just stood up for the first time in 3 days, which means I&#39;m either an average American or recovering well from being hit by a car.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chad Haga (@ChadHaga) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChadHaga\/status\/691950510258151424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>John Degenkolb, Warren Barguil, Fredrik Ludvigsson, Ramon Sinkeldam and Max Walscheid were also part of the accident which is already being investigated by the police. The 73-year-old driver was charged with reckless driving and was released from the custody in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/01\/12418845_1670913546458700_7527379325364744405_o-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-133219\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2016\/01\/12418845_1670913546458700_7527379325364744405_o-2-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"John Degenkolb, Warren Barguil, Fredrik Ludvigsson, Ramon Sinkeldam and Max Walscheid were also part of the accident which is already being investigated by the police.\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps it was a moment of forgetfulness and she was driving on the side of the road she\u2019s used to. But here we drive on the other side of the road and this kind of carelessness almost resulted in lives being lost,\u201d told a source close to the investigation Spanish daily AS.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet known what sentence might be the British woman facing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>73-year-old British woman crashed into a group of riders from the German WorldTour team. 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