On May 8, 12:15=EF=BF=BDpm, David Springthrope
<david.springthr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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
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s
> involved in a hit-and-run crash in the Sydney suburb of Mascot.
>
> The group of professional cyclists were riding south on Southern Cross
Dri=
ve,
> just south of Dacey Avenue, witnesses told Fairfax media.
>
> A driver, agitated with being held up, accelerated in front of the pack
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d then
> slammed on his brakes, witnesses said.
>
> Nichols was one of five national team members injured in the 2005 road
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sh in
> Germany in which team member Amy Gillett was killed.
>
> Nichols said the cyclists were going at a good clip, two abreast as they
a=
re
> 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
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ment
> issued through Cycling Australia.
>
> "And then the guy went in front of us and slammed on his brakes. He was
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st a
> total moron.
>
> "A heap (of us) came off, but everyone just had superficial wounds and
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were
> all treated there."
>
> It is understood an off-duty policeman
the donkee pigee was shot that's what i heard on the tube.
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