Wiggins down

[johnr]

GWS!!

+1

 

[Pedrosanchezo]

8 police cars?
GWS wiggo.

 

[Hip Priest]

Jesus. Hope it isn't too bad. Looking forward to being told how he should have used 'prior planning' or that people get flattened by white vans in Thailand all the time and just shrug it off.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Guardian's just covered it - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/nov/07/bradley-wiggins-hospital-crash

 

[tigger]

Get well soon indeed. Broken ribs take about 6 weeks to heal I think and are very painful. Lets hope its nothing too serious and doesn't effect his training too mich. Trying to see a positive side, this will put cyclist safety right at the fore again given his profile. Brad was due on the Chris Evans breakfast show in the morning and the papers will be all over this anyway.

 

[Hacienda71]

TV news just said it was just bruising so might not be as bad as at first reported.

 

[albion]

At rush hour I really notice the red mist on almost every junction.
Risk goes sky high even for me, an astute plodder.

 

[Trail Child]

I hope it's really minor & he'll be okay....

 

[ianrauk]

Another job for Russell Jones & Walker.

 

[DCLane]

Made the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/20246940

Seems to be a woman van driver pulling out of a petrol station?

The least it'll do is raise awareness of bike safety.

 

[Alun]

Get well soon, Bradley !

 

[johnr]

Makes me feel a whole lot better about berating the driver who ran me off the road this morning when she pulled out of a side road right into me.

 

[thom]

The least it'll do is raise awareness of bike safety.

Indeedy. Of all the people this could happen to, it's rather shocking.
He seems to just want something of a normal life and this will only add to the hoopla.
Poor bloke - hope he gets well soon.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Broken ribs take about 6 weeks to heal I think and are very painful.

Very painful once broke 3 ribs after coming off my motorbike when somebody had dropped a load of sand on a junction. It was so bad I couldn't hold my breath long enough for the guy to get a good x-ray, wasn't until a week later they could confirm it.

Alan...

 

[Davehateshills]

Did a 45 mile ride today and had 3 cars pull out on me. All 3 saw me and must have thought they could get out because i was a 'slow' cyclist. (I am slow, but not that slow) I hope this makes a few drivers more aware of the risk that their actions pose to us all.

Oh, get well and back in training soon! You have a race in Italy to win next year!