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Post by pasawaylouie on Jul 19, 2005 21:27:00 GMT 8
Crashed bicycles lay on the roadside on 18 July 2005 at the site of an accident in which one of Australia's top women cyclists was killed and her five national teammates were seriously injured when a car plowed into them as they trained for the Thueringen Rundfahrt cycling race on a road between Zeulenroda and Auma in eastern Germany. Cycling Australia identified the dead rider as Amy Gillett, 29, a former World Cup team member who had previously represented her country at the Olympics in rowing. A handout photo dated 2005 shows Australian cyclist Amy Gillett. Gillett, one of Australia's top women cyclists, was killed. handout photo dated 2005 of Australian cyclist Amy Gillett shows her in action during the 2005 Australian Road Cycling Championship where she won bronze in the road time trial. Rescue workers and firemen provide first aid on 18 July 2005 at the site of an accident in which one of Australia's top women cyclists was killed and her five national teammates were seriously injured when a car plowed into them as they trained for the Thueringen Rundfahrt cycling race on a road between Zeulenroda and Auma in eastern Germany.
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Post by Ben Dover on Jul 20, 2005 9:06:12 GMT 8
just look at those bike debris..the car must be unbelievably fast to incurr such damage...horrible!
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Post by rocky on Jul 20, 2005 9:11:02 GMT 8
Look. Sa bilis...bike parts scattered like spaghetti. Asar!
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Post by allegra on Jul 20, 2005 9:30:44 GMT 8
It's Germany 200kph normal na takbo dun This is so sad
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Post by anthrax76 on Jul 20, 2005 10:11:23 GMT 8
Germany is known for autobahn (automobile superhighway) there is no overspeeding there. my uncle once told me that some americans would actually ship their cars to germany just to get a feel of flooring the pedal.
what a tragedy
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Post by Ben Dover on Jul 20, 2005 10:35:22 GMT 8
yup, but guys i dont think that road where the accident happened is part of the autobahn...looks like just a narrow two way country road to me...read from cyclingnews.com that the driver was an 18 yr old female that just passed the driving test 4 weeks before the incident...she hit the cyclists coming from opposite direction (head on).
looking at the debris kahit na head-on yan talagang matulin parin ang dating.
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Post by allegra on Jul 20, 2005 10:52:26 GMT 8
yup, but guys i dont think that road where the accident happened is part of the autobahn...looks like just a narrow two way country road to me...read from cyclingnews.com that the driver was an 18 yr old female that just passed the driving test 4 weeks before the incident...she hit the cyclists coming from opposite direction (head on). looking at the debris kahit na head-on yan talagang matulin parin ang dating. Nope, that happened in East germany, wala naman autobahn dun Here in Los Banos, the European scientists drive 100kph yata on the 6m wide roads.
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Post by feline13 on Jul 20, 2005 11:06:51 GMT 8
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Post by clutchshooter on Jul 20, 2005 11:07:48 GMT 8
Yeah, Autobahn! Test driving super faassssttt cars!
Such a big loss to the biking community... Horrendous!
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Post by allegra on Jul 20, 2005 11:26:13 GMT 8
bawal yata mag bike sa autobahn I dont know if they still have autobahns A friend told me he's ridden the autobahn at 350kph ( he was a passenger ) Baka he was delirious na sa takot
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Post by stormloader on Jul 20, 2005 12:03:36 GMT 8
Apparently t'was an 18 year old student driver who ran over the women cyclists. And SHE (yup, also a girl) was seriously injured as well...
just sad... The Australian Institute of Sport cycling program is now suspended indefinitely and "Cycling Australia is counting the cost of potentially the biggest tragedy to have hit the sport in this country."
Cycling Australia president Mike Victor said it would take a some time for the sport to recover.
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