ABOVE: A horrifying bike crash leads to s second crash moments later
TORONTO – A terrifying chain reaction accident was caught on tape at a Utah cycling event this past weekend involving three cyclists, a support vehicle, and a motorcycle.
It happened Saturday afternoon during stage 6 of the Tour of Utah in Big Cottonwood Canyon, on a particularly sharp hairpin turn coming down from Guardsman Pass.
Cyclist Aaron Cengiz said he was competing in the Ultimate Challenge, an event which allows amateur and hobby riders to compete on the same course on the same day as the professional racers.
After he crashed coming into the same turn, he said he decided to pull out his phone and start recording as the professional racers began to come by.
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That’s when the unthinkable occurred: Matt Brammeier, a rider with the MTN-QHUBEKA racing team slammed into the side of a support vehicle with the Airgas Safeway Cycling team.
“You could tell he was out of control. I don’t know if he expected a straight-away or didn’t know the course, but he T-boned a support vehicle,” Cengiz told KSL News in Utah.
Emergency and team officials rushed the course to tend to the fallen Brammeier, who lay motionless on the asphalt after the sickening crash. Among the officials was a race official on a motorcycle, who made a beeline for the downed racer.
But moments later, his motorcycle is clipped by two other racers, sending them tumbling across the road.
Amazingly, none of the people involved in the incident were killed. Brammeier, the most seriously injured of the racers, was rushed to a nearby hospital.
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“Thankfully, Matt has suffered no head, neck or spinal injuries and is currently stable in hospital. His musculoskeletal injuries are significant however,” team doctor Jarrad van Zuydam said in a press release.
“He suffered rib fractures on both sides as well as a small pneumothorax. He also has fractures of the sacral and pelvic bones. Matt is unlikely to require surgery but will need some time to recover from his injuries.”
The resilient rider even tweeted a photo of himself recovering in the hospital, with the words “All good in the hood guys. Thanks for the messages.”
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