One Pro Cycling rider Karol Domagalski recovered after being knocked from his bike by the driver of the Madison-Genesis team car on yesterday’s opening stage of the OVO Energy Tour of Britain to take the day’s combativity prize and get into the sprints jersey.
The Polish rider was part of an eight-man breakaway group on the stage from Edinburgh to Kelso, as was Madison-Genesis’s Conor Swift, the cousin of UAE Team Emirates rider Ben Swift.
The incident happened with around a third of the 190.1 kilometre stage raced as Swift took a bottle from the driver, who appeared to be distracted and failed to notice Domagalski dropping back slightly.
“Rear-end collision” #OVOToBpic.twitter.com/11gAdYC4G
— CyclingHub (@CyclingHubTV) September 3, 2017
Fortunately, the group were heading up a short incline at the time, meaning the pace was slow and the driver was able to brake and avoid running over the prone rider.
The stage was won by Orica-Scott’s Caleb Ewen.
14 thoughts on “Video: Team car driver rear-ends cyclist at Tour of Britain”
Pretty standard stuff for UK
Pretty standard stuff for UK drivers
Sorry Mate – didn’t see you
Sorry Mate – didn’t see you
leqin wrote:
Clearly caused by the cyclist – no hi-vis, and riding in the middle of the lane as if he owned it
CygnusX1 wrote:
and if the cyclist had had insurance and his bike registered with a number plate, the driver wouldn’t have hit him. And given the number of cyclists running red lights in London, this is really no surprise.
SNS1938 wrote:
I saw these guys, they were running red lights all day and no one did anything to stop them. This driver is a hero, his ‘love tap’ was a reminder that cyclists should know their place.
CygnusX1 wrote:
Well, the commentator did say it happened because the rider “drifted back into the front of the car”.
No one came to the guy’s aid?
No one came to the guy’s aid?
amazon22 wrote:
Well he’s only a bike rider – think of the poor car please :.)
Three cheers for reporting
Three cheers for reporting that ‘the driver’, rather than his self-willed car, knocked the rider from his bike. If this rag can’t get that right, what chance that the others will?
How many drafts did it take? ;o)
Still think the driver of any
Still think the driver of any vehicle interacting with the peleton should be doing nothing else other than driving it! Not handing out bottles and discussing tactics as he’s also the DS….
I’m surprised the police didn
I’m surprised the police didn’t shut down the entire event because of furious riding. These guys were doing more than 18mph at times.
The response by the
The response by the commentators tell you everything you need to know about the mindset of the majority. they can’t even bring themselves to come straight out and say that it was piss poor driving, no they absolved the driver of blame and came out with a load of pony/waffle saying he was dropping back, was he fuck! Public road so the driver has committed an offence.
The sooner drivers that operate vehicles are pulled up for this shit in racing circles by authorities (at all levels) the sooner race organisers will have start to take responsibility and enforce rules that state that a driver drives and anything else is down to someone else. That doesn’t mean be on the race radio, handing out jaffa cakes etc.
No, it’s not an “unfortunate incident”, it’s an AVOIDABLE incident, “i’ve seen this happen before”, yes you have you cretin and still you can’t manage to criticise or condemn the action, we’ve seen it all too often of late with horrendous outcomes and still no fucker does anything about it!
BehindTheBikesheds wrote:
The sun was clearly in his
The sun was clearly in his eyes.