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Barbed Wire Wipeout: TV Car Rams Tour de France Riders Leaving Riders Bloody
- Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:21pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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Dutch cyclist Johnny Hoogerland wipes out into a barbed wire fence in this bizarre and painful Tour de France crash:
Hoogerland crashed after Spanish rider Juan Antonio Flecha was hit by a car belonging to TV station France 2. The group of cyclists were on a narrow country road only 22 miles from the finish of a stage. After the collision both riders were able to re-mount their bikes and continue the race although bloody and half-naked, leaving shreds of cycling pant behind them in the French countryside.
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Comments (78)
Jake in Denver
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:43pmSee, this is why no one likes the French.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:13pmNice driving in the car .Look at it in slow motion ,you can see the driver has her cell phone up to her ear and is putting on lipstick….nah just kidding. Could have just as easily have been that guy I saw on the interstate reading his newspaper ,you know the one I made pi$$ his pants when I rolled up next to him and let loose with my portable air horn.
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:11pmThe world is falling apart and the French are still riding bicycles. Go figure. But at least they will save the planet from global warming, ha, ha. The last great Frenchman was Napoleon. Carla Bruni gets my vote for next “runner-up.”
Report Post »RightPolitically
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:13pmYeah, yeah, I know. She‘s not a ’man’ nor French but what the heck. Carla is the best thing they got and I’m sure she keeps Nicky happy!
Report Post »Dauntless
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 11:04amThe French do one thing right….they are not afraid of to have more nuclear power.
Drive from Italy into France and the air in France is much is cleaner.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:34pmWhy are the french trying to run over the Spanish?Thought they were both on the same side?
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:16pmIt is a race to insolvency
Report Post »Tropla
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:26pmThe title of this contribution could also be: “Sports are beautiful but do them cautiously”.
Report Post »p51d007
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:24pmLOL around 7 seconds, cracked and clobbered. Didn’t even need a translator for that one.
Report Post »Florida_Freedom_Fighter
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:03pmThat was awesome thanks for the laugh…
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:02pmWhat the heck was the TV Station 2 driver doing? It looks like he hit the cyclist on purpose!
Report Post »Tropla
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:23pmThe car could pass in a straight pass but on purpose the car hits Flecha to help the Frenchman Voelcker.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:08amThe car had to swerve in to miss the tree that was sticking into the road. The driver should have seen it earlier so as not to cut in so suddenly.
Report Post »Stu D. Baker-Hawk
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:02pmI share my mountain bike with as few cars on the road as possible. Mountain bike vs. Automobile = Automobile wins (EVERY TIME).
Report Post »michaelmoron
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:54pmI am a Libertarian. Don’t tell me what to do, If I am Infringing on no one.
I DO wear a helmet when I skateboard vertical terrain though :p
Report Post »beckbotsrlame
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:39pmThe only person you are infringing upon appears to be yourself, you being a moron and all. Shalom
jb.kibs
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:54pm“Channel 2 takes out biker instead of stopping.”
Report Post »Steev
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:47pmAhhch, don’t be a mamby pamby – he didn’t need a helmet – theres about a 10,000 % more chance of one of those guy‘s having a heart attack and i don’t see them wearing heartmets.
Report Post »Elucidate
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:46pmWow all these hurtful comments…what gives? Maybe…just Maybe it was timed by the France car to swerve to avoid the tree and swipe the rider but I don’t think so. What this says is single lane roads and mixed use of cars and bikes abreast of one another should be banned from TDF. Either in front or in back, not by the side. What if another cyclist crashed and he needed to swerve to avoid, the car would have prevented that reaction. it‘s europe and they don’t have the same value on life I suppose. Maybe the EU should spend a little more on infrastructure and less on retired entitlements living at the age of 40 years old.
Report Post »Rayblue
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:42pmTake a fall on a road bike, there’s the asphalt and concrete
Report Post »to cushion your impact.
Barbed wire is at least springy. and pointy.
I designed and supervised hike and bike trails for Houston and surrounding cities back in 2002.
1 in Baytown, 2 in Houston, 1 in Pasadena.
Ride the Baytown hike and bike trail sometime. I made it interesting just for you.
BONETRAUMA
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:33pmride that bike jonny. ride jonny ride! two nuts up.
Report Post »dontbotherme
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:33pmTV Station France 2 is in big trouble. I hope all of the cyclists are ok.
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:51pmare they serious? really.. wtf kind of driving was that? he blatently hit those guys…
Report Post »Sound The Trumpet In Zion
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 8:29amI think that if I was there, I would have to start checking out to see if the driver of that car has a bet on another rider to win and that he was trying to take out the other riders to help his guy win.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:33pmHelmets don’t help against barbed wire
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:34pmyes they do
Report Post »Mauser KAR98K
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:44pmBut Kevlar does.
Report Post »usually_right
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:32pmI love seeing bicyclists crash!! The most annoying athletes ever.
Report Post »lemmsoil
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:14pmYou are an idiot for saying that! Let us guess your favorite sport, maybe horse shoes while consuming a case of beer and a side of beef. Why would you say you like seeing others hurt, period?
Report Post »Ndbbm
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:14pmThere is not much chance of you getting hit by a car sitting on your couch, STFU get off you lazay arss. The race today was 128 miles you wouldn’t be able to drive that far wint out a rest. be careful you don’t hit me i carry when i ride just for people like you Richard…
Report Post »radiodinner
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:20pmLeave it to Blaze readers to politicize a bike crash. As a strongly conservative cyclist who uses his cycling to further the cause of freedom, I take issue with you who seem to lump all cyclists together. Most annoying athletes ever? What gives!?
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:13am@ USUALLY_RIGHT
Report Post »This is the most annoying comment ever .
I love road cycling & maybe it’s time for you to learn how to ride a bicycle .
4SmallGov
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 3:33amWhat’s with all the cars during bike big race like the Tour de France?…. Yes the most annoying athletes ever look at your outfits. We all see you, and you look like peacocks stay off the roads. Go ahead and dress up like that but ride on bike trails with your own kind.
Report Post »FreedomByForce
Posted on July 12, 2011 at 3:16pmWhat a wussy comment. It’s normal human behavior to find that video clip hilarious! Anyone who says they didn’t enjoy that on some level, I call a liar.
Boxing, football, auto racing, wrestling, ice hockey, baseball, street fights… all gather an eager crowd, especially when the ultra-violence breaks out, which it often does. Public hangings historically drew most of the townspeople, not just to see someone hurt, but to watch someone die. It’s human nature and there is nothing wrong with it.
Report Post »usually_right
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:30pmI love seeing bicyclists crash!!
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:29pmSpeaking of a bloody crash, just wait, if rick perry makes it into the white house you‘ll see he’s no Conservative. Viva Christie and DeMint
Report Post »Cameron
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:38pmHow is your mother’s basement suiting you these days?
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:46pmLittle chilly, just had a 50/50 ice cream and air conditioning is set to low. But, what the heck it ain’t my money.
Report Post »IAMNOTKNOWING
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:06pmA 50/50 bar!
LOL
I love those things. Especially the rasberry. :)
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:28pmlooks like (station France 2) became the story
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:28pmThanks for the tip, Big Brother.
Ugh.
Report Post »onegodinkansas
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:02pmYip. Take your nanny-state propaganda article & flush it. I’ll wear a helmet if I feel like it & it’s none of your stinking business.
Report Post »right-wing-waco
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:28pmOh that had to hurt. I hope they recover and that the car driver gets charged.
Report Post »BONETRAUMA
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:37pmwtf biker and skater boys are the vags of sports. kickball is a close 2nd
Report Post »SingerGuy
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:11pmThe driver had to swerve to avoid hitting a tree. There were tons of people behind the car, so slamming on the brakes wasn’t an option. Basically the bikes were too far over and left the driver no place to go. Watch it again before you rush to judgment.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:23am@ SINGERGUY
it‘s a bike race the priority is for the cyclists that car driver didn’t get his priorities right .
Report Post »Before the start of each race the organizers hold a meeting with all the running cars & motorcycles during the race & gives them strict guidelines about the safety of the riders & the safety of the public .
For sure that driver will be banned from driving in the Tour again .
dr pepper
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:27amSinger, you obviously have no clue as to what is required by car drivers during a cycling road race. I have been following and watching the Tour de France since the mid 80′s. The car does not have the right-of-way, in fact, they must slowdown/stop/avoid any contact with the cyclists. The driver should have not accelerated, but rather taken his foot off the accelerator pedal and this whole event would have been avoided. This is a rarity in road racing which only goes to show how incompetent the driver of the car must really be. I will grant you that there is a lot of jockeying of vehicles during a big race such as the TDF, with camera crews, motorcycles, team cars, doctors, officials, etc, but none take precedence over the bicyclists ever.
Report Post »GrumpyCat
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:43amI have watched the video on slow motion and the car had no excuse whatsoever for swerving.
First this is a bicycle event. The roads were closed to all others. The bicycles have right of way. If the road was too narrow then the car should have stopped until the bicycles passed. No excuse that there were others behind the car as those others had no problems stopping to keep from running over the downed bicyclists. Why didn’t other cars behind the car also wipe out more bicycles while swerving to “avoid” the tree?
Second, the car missed the tree by more than the car swerved into the bicycles.
Report Post »muhamadhater
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 1:46amwow thats messed up…wondering if the driver of the car had any money on this face of the race!? definetly had no reason 2 swerve over like he did!! Thats jusr wrong!!!
Report Post »Death 2 Islam!!
God bless America and Isreal!!
GETLIFE
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 3:53amApparently, the motorcycle drivers got a yelling at on Sunday morning because of interfering with the race the day before. I was watching France 2 (the only French network which carries the race live) when this happened. The sportscasters had normal spontaneous reactions…then there was total silence. Then I had to change channels to get any news on the accident. Business as usual for state run MSM France!
Report Post »GadsdenPatriot
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:27pmTitle should read: Why Bike Lanes Are Amazingly Stupid Idea.
Report Post »Christopher Santarelli
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:56pmHa
Report Post »joan k
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 9:26pmOuch!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 10:22pmFunny…not
To all the funny people who still say this is not a sport, try jumping out of your car going 30 miles an hour in you underwear… Lets see how many football players line up for that one?
As a collate football player and freestyle wrestler who later when on to race bikes they’re not in the same hemisphere!
Report Post »CatB
Posted on July 10, 2011 at 11:30pmThat’s gonna leave a mark….. ouch is right. I have wiped out on a bike before in a “bike-a-thon” but no barbwire fence thank goodness.
Report Post »Divineliberty
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:03amAs someone who races bicycles professionally…I can attest, that hurt!
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on July 11, 2011 at 12:03amCar driver should be fired .
Report Post »I felt so bad for them they were in the leading group & some stupid driver ruined their whole Tour .