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Cyclist seriously injured after wire stretched across bike path

Ian Davies was left with broken ribs and collarbones as a result of trap on Chester Millennium Greenway

Thu, Feb 23, 2023 12:38
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Wire that caused Sean Nolan to crash

“I could have been paralysed” – Top Irish cyclo-cross racer sustains broken bones due to trap on mountain bike trail

Seán Nolan broke four ribs and two vertebrae and sustained a partially collapsed lung in crash on Friday

Mon, Jul 25, 2022 18:23
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Neck Injury via toe_cutter_71 on Instagram

Cyclist who rode into barbed wire trap needed 17 stitches in neck (+ graphic images)

South Wales Police are investigating incident on mountain bike trail in Rhondda Valley

Wed, Dec 22, 2021 11:08
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mtb trail trap – via facebook.PNG

Horrific “medieval” trap using sharpened stakes placed on mountain biking trail near Newcastle

Northumbria Police confirm trap – similar to archer’s stakes used to defend longbowmen from French cavalry at Agincourt – has been removed

Tue, Apr 27, 2021 14:16
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metal wire – via Flick Creative Commons

Cyclist seriously injured as wire strung across Edinburgh cycle path

“Tying wire across a path is a completely reckless thing to do,” says Police Scotland

Fri, Mar 19, 2021 11:36
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Barbed wire – licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 by fir0002 on Wikimedia Commons

Warning after Grimsby cyclist rides into barbed wire trap

Kat Slater's husband managed to shout warning before she hit wire stretched across path

Tue, Dec 31, 2019 11:15
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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)

Cyclist riding trail in Wales finds plank of wood with 100+ nails embedded in it

“It looks like something out of a horror film,” says rider who found booby trap

Wed, Jul 10, 2019 13:50
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Stelianos Psaroudakis gofundme.png

Canadian cyclist charged with fraud after crowdfunding fake booby trap injuries

Stelianos Psaroudakis, 37, said he was garrotted while mountain biking

Sun, Jul 23, 2017 08:15
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Police tape (CC licensed by freefotouk on Flickr)

Wirral cyclist hurt by wire stretched across promenade – police treating incident as assault

"This was a completely reckless and dangerous thing to do," says police inspector

Tue, Mar 14, 2017 17:53
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Entrance to Stretford Meadows (via StreetView).jpg

Manchester cyclist almost garrotted by booby trap

Police appeal for information

Fri, Jul 15, 2016 14:52
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