Irish road international Jake Gray and his team mate were still managing to put a brave face on after their crash descending out training. But the injuries sustained suggest a very nasty incident.
More details, and photos of the injuries sustained, have emerged after new Irish pro rider Jake Gray suffered a bad crash out training in Spain.
Gray was on a training camp with his new Ribble Pro Cycling team, riding in the hills near Calpe, when he and team mate Scott Auld came a cropper.
They crashed with an oncoming driver in a van. Jake Gray broke his scaphoid, or wrist bone, in the crash.
Auld, a 22-year-old British rider, broke his left arm, badly bruised his right arm and suffered wounds above his eyes that required some stitching.
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Auld has been speaking to the media in his home area of Stockton in Britain about what happened and his injuries.
It has also emerged he was thrown into a ravine when he crashed doing between 50-55km per hour. By Auld's account, the crash was a serious one but could have been much worse.
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“We braked, readjusted and for a split-second I thought ‘we’ve missed him’," Auld told the Northern Echo of remembering seeing the van come towards him as the group was riding two abreast.
"I was second wheel and my friend’s arm caught the wing mirror. It completely smashed apart. As I was turning he has clipped my back wheel and I have flown over my friend.
“The last thing I remember was flying towards this sign post and thinking ‘this is really going to hurt’.
"I clipped the sign post and, we are in Spain and so the hills are quite large, and I have gone off the side and landed on rocks and stuff.”
He said one of the group had dropped a chain going up the climb and so was riding down the other side on his own off the back. When he came upon the crash scene he initially couldn't find Auld.
“He looked over the ravine and he saw me laid face down in a pool of blood. He woke me up and we eventually got an ambulance out and I was taken to Benidorm hospital," he explained.
"At the time, because I was full of adrenaline, I didn’t think it was too bad. But then about nine people came and stood around me and I thought ‘Oooh, I must be pretty banged up’.”
Auld, clearly in bits, and James Sherwood who broke his collarbone in the crash.
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