Simon Carr nails street sign in Tirreno-Adriatico crash - Video
EF-Nippo rider gets up a🧸nd finishes stage after 𒆙dramatic crash
After a strong debut in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tirreno-Adriatico that included a top 10 in the queen stage to Prati di Tivo, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Simon Carr's race nearly ended when he ran into an ꦛunprotected 🅘bollard in the middle of the road of stage 6 on the closing circuit around Fermo.
Carr was following an 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:EF Education-Nippo teammate as the race was lined out cha﷽sing the six-man breakaway of the day when the teammate swerved to avoid the road furniture - two bollards, a raised concrete island and sign indicating a pedestrian crosswalk - and Carr cl🦄ipped one of the posts with his rear wheel and slammed sideways into the sign, flipping rapidly 360-degrees before landing on his left hip.
Remarkably, after a time on the ground𒐪, Carr remounted his bike and finished the stage in a group with teammate Alex Howes at 12:01 behind stage win𓂃ner Mads Würtz Schmidt (Israel Start-Up Nation).
"Finished today's Tirreno-Adriatico stage all OK," Carr wrote on Instagram. "Thanks to everyone who'♉s asked after me having seen the crash on TV. If you like watching people ride into signposts at 45kph you can swipe left to see it.
"I'm a bit bruised on my right side and won't be going for a good TT tomorrow as was my inten🌠tion. But having seen the crash, I'm pl꧃eased to be back on my bike relatively OK."
The lack of any protective padding around the obstacle or signalman to warn riders to avoid it highlights an ongoing issue with safety on open road courses, in particular in Europe🔥an towns where such traffic calming measures are prevalent.
An unmarked bollard caused a horrific crash in stage 1 of the 2015 Vuelta a Pais Vasco, leaving Peter Stetina and Sergio Pardilla seriously injured. More recently,ꦏ New Zealand champion George Bennett (Jumbo-Visma) crashed into an unprotected bollard on a n🏅arrow street during stage 6 of Paris-Nice and seemed to be dazed before remounting to finish the race.
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The UCI rolled out new safety measures for 2021, with the appointment of an Event Safety Manager required for all races with immediate effect. The role is accountable to UCI Safe🌼ty Manager Richard Chassot, who is "dedicated to the safety and🌞 the supervision of safety at events on the UCI International Road Calendar" according to the UCI.
Last season, the UCI was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:forced to respond to several serious racing incidents, including the crash of Fabio Jakobsen in Tour de Pologne, that of Steven Kruijswijk on a pothole-strewn road in the Criterium du Dauphiné, the fall of Remco Evenepoel and collision of Max Schachmann with a vehicle in Il Lombardia and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:potholes and bollards on the course in Tour de Wallonie.
The UCI noted that "certain fundamental safety measures" rolled out in 2020 were not respected by race organisers and vowedꦡ to step up course 𝓡inspections.
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