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From today's Sunday Tasmania
A 14-year old Launceston girl was killed yesterday following a collisio on the North-West involving a bicycle, truck and a Mitsubishi ute Police said the girl was riding her bike in a junior cycle race a Moriarty about 2pm and collided with the truck after turning int another road The girl died instantl ----------------------------------------------- No doubt we will get more details in next few days. I understand th girl had been picked in the TIS Talent Identification program and wa really enjoying her participation in the sport What a tragedy! A reminder to us all, be careful and be safe - |
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From The Mercury:
http://www.themercury.news.com.au/co...5E3462,00.html Shock death of rising cyclist By JOHN BRIGGS 09feb0 TASMANIA'S cycle racing community was yesterday struggling to come t terms with the death of rising star Samantha Hellyer The 15-year-old state junior champion was killed in a freak accident a Moriarty, near Latrobe, while competing in the junior division of th Devon 80, one of the state's major road races Sam, from the Launceston suburb of Trevallyn, was killed instantly in a accident involving a truck and a utility on Saturday Racing was cancelled immediately after the accident as the shock new reached fellow riders, family, officials and friends (more details in article - |
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What a terrible story spida. I've had a few close ones of late on the
tar and have decided to spend more time in the forest on the MTB. You still have 4WD's and motorbikes to contend with but that's only on the fire tracks and you can generally hear them coming. However the single track is all ours! -- |
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Spider1977 wrote:
No doubt we will get more details in next few days. I understand the girl had been picked in the TIS Talent Identification program and was really enjoying her participation in the sport. What a tragedy! A reminder to us all, be careful and be safe. This is extremely distressing, a talented girl with a potential cyclin career ahead of her. I was reading the news article on Sunday, the remembered seeing the TIS signage on skinsuits worn by younger cyclist at the Austral Wheel Race. : A tragic loss - |
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Mandatory death sentence for any driver found guilty of killing
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Was this actually a recent incident
Seem to remember an identical thing happening in a club race in Tassi when the road was not closed off properly and rider went round a corne to hit car head o - |
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flyingdutch wrote:
Was this actually a recent incident? Seem to remember an identical thing happening in a club race in Tassie when the road was not closed off properly and rider went round a corner to hit car head on This does sound like a really freaky accident and the cyclist was jus in the wrong place at the wrong time. See Spider1977's link below http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php...feb04/feb08new - |
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Spider1977 wrote in message .. .
From today's Sunday Tasmanian A 14-year old Launceston girl was killed yesterday following a collision on the North-West involving a bicycle, truck and a Mitsubishi ute. Police said the girl was riding her bike in a junior cycle race at Moriarty about 2pm and collided with the truck after turning into another road. The girl died instantly "Witnesses said Sam swung out wide on a corner as she cycled out of a side road. She collided with a farm truck, which rammed a utility as its driver apparently tried to avoid the young cyclist." What the ...? If the route required riders to pull out of a side road, and the route wasn't closed to traffic, why was there no marshal there directing traffic? Or are racers expected to stop and give way to traffic in these events? Allister |
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