Link to scary photos of the Matamoros Race accident, 2009.

toshmund
toshmund Posts: 390
edited January 2010 in The bottom bracket
Sorry, don't know if this has been posted previously but thought it deserved a posting. Looks a pretty full-on crash! There is a photo of the driver being arrested. Reassuringly...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27294441@N ... 402129319/

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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Happened in Mexico in June 2008 apparently.............one killed by driver high as a kite. Horrific photo. :cry:

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  • VinceEager
    VinceEager Posts: 247
    Toshmund wrote:
    Sorry, don't know if this has been posted previously but thought it deserved a posting. Looks a pretty full-on crash! There is a photo of the driver being arrested. Reassuringly...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/27294441@N ... 402129319/

    :shock:
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  • toshmund
    toshmund Posts: 390
    Doh! Sorry, I don't know where I got 2009 from!? Thanks for the link.
  • bobtbuilder
    bobtbuilder Posts: 1,537
    This has been posted here before. DO we really need to see photos of the damage that cars can do to cyclists? Aren't we all fairly aware of this? :roll:
  • toshmund
    toshmund Posts: 390
    It is a fairpoint, but I think the clue is also in the title. No one forced you to look at the photo, and why censor what everyone else can view? That would make you a bit of a Mary Whitehouse type really
  • MadammeMarie
    MadammeMarie Posts: 621
    Toshmund wrote:
    Sorry, don't know if this has been posted previously but thought it deserved a posting. Looks a pretty full-on crash! There is a photo of the driver being arrested. Reassuringly...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/27294441@N ... 402129319/

    And this photo is used by any-cyclists groups in Facebook! :x
  • toshmund
    toshmund Posts: 390
    MadammeMarie wrote:
    Toshmund wrote:
    Sorry, don't know if this has been posted previously but thought it deserved a posting. Looks a pretty full-on crash! There is a photo of the driver being arrested. Reassuringly...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/27294441@N ... 402129319/

    And this photo is used by any-cyclists groups in Facebook! :x

    I am on Facebook, but I tend to avoid the groups. People seem to make it all too political nowadays. Since this is a cycling forum, thought it might be appropriate.

    Cycling is a sport, bit of a past-time. The way some people bleat on here, you would think it was a rites of passage and actually doing it, deserved some great badge of honour. Nice to keep things in perspective...
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Toshmund wrote:
    MadammeMarie wrote:
    Toshmund wrote:
    Sorry, don't know if this has been posted previously but thought it deserved a posting. Looks a pretty full-on crash! There is a photo of the driver being arrested. Reassuringly...

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/27294441@N ... 402129319/

    And this photo is used by any-cyclists groups in Facebook! :x

    I am on Facebook, but I tend to avoid the groups. People seem to make it all too political nowadays. Since this is a cycling forum, thought it might be appropriate.

    Cycling is a sport, bit of a past-time. The way some people bleat on here, you would think it was a rites of passage and actually doing it, deserved some great badge of honour. Nice to keep things in perspective...

    If you think people bleat on here, then why be on here ?. Its a forum, everyone has a voice and an opinion.
    The photo you posted has been on here before, just think its quite morbid, but some folks have a fascination with grim stuff, graphic images and the like. I think the point the others were making is that we've seen it and once was enough.

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