http://www.foxs****ts.com.au/story/0,8659,23664131-5016213,00.html
Aussie cyclists in hit-and-run
From staff re****ters
May 08, 2008
AUSTRALIAN cyclists Kate Nichols and Ben Kersten were among about 50
riders
involved in a hit-and-run crash in the Sydney suburb of Mascot.
The group of professional cyclists were riding south on Southern Cross
Drive,
just south of Dacey Avenue, witnesses told Fairfax media.
A driver, agitated with being held up, accelerated in front of the pack
and then
slammed on his brakes, witnesses said.
Nichols was one of five national team members injured in the 2005 road
crash in
Germany in which team member Amy Gillett was killed.
Nichols said the cyclists were going at a good clip, two abreast as they
are
required to, when a car pushed them towards the edge of the road.
"The car came past us squi****ng us into our lane," Nichols said in a
statement
issued through Cycling Australia.
"And then the guy went in front of us and slammed on his brakes. He was
just a
total moron.
"A heap (of us) came off, but everyone just had superficial wounds and we
were
all treated there."
It is understood an off-duty policeman was in a car following the group
and the
cyclists took the number plate of the car before it sped off.
There were no serious injuries but most cyclists suffered cuts, bruises,
sprains
and possible fractures.
"A lot of people had superficial cuts and grazes, and there'll be a bit of
checking for broken bones and the like, but at this stage it looks like we
are
very, very lucky that no one was seriously injured," Cycling Australia
spokeswoman Gennie Sheer said.
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