Three years later, Jesse Sergent and Sébastien Chavanel were hit by Shimano neutral service vehicles in two separate incidents at the 2014 Tour of Flanders. Who can forget Jonny Hoogerland being turfed into barbed wire after being hit by a car during the 2011 Tour de France? Thursday’s crash was by no means an isolated incident and, over the years, there have been many incidents involving riders and race vehicles.
?Bike Exchange team car accidentally hits Deceuninck–Quick-Step rider, Pieter Serry. Hopefully, he will learn from this incident and realize it could have been far worse, but more needs to be actively done to prevent incidents like this from occurring. Races might be contested on closed roads but there is a lot going on and one can never afford to be inattentive, at any point. Whatever the consequences of it were, it was an inexcusable incident, and it was only right that BikeExchange sports director Gene Bates was expelled from the race. On a day where the weather had battered the riders, the BikeExchange car had been collecting rain jackets that had been discarded in the commissaries’ car by its riders.Īlso read: Giro d’Italia: UCI jury boots BikeExchange director for hitting Pieter Serry with car
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Mercifully, Serry was ok – if a little miffed – and could continue his race.īut the incident shed light on how even the best-intended of recently imposed laws can misfire.
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The sight of Pieter Serry being taken down by a sports director in a team car in the final kilometers stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia was a shocking one. It should never have been allowed to happen.