Bora-hansgrohe has said two of its riders who were taken to hospital after a crash with a driver in a car have sustained fractured bones, with multiple fractures sustained.
The incident occurred yesterday as the team wrapped up a pre-season training camp in Italy, with seven riders crashing during the collision with a driver in a car.
“During training, several of our riders were involved in
an accident with a car, which crossed the road and rode into our training
group,” the team said of yesterday’s crash.
“Wilco Kelderman, Rüdiger Selig and Andreas Schillinger
were taken to hospital, all conscious. Wilco sustained a concussion and a
fractured vertebrae.
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“Andreas sustained broken vertebrae in the cervical and
thoracic spine. For both riders, we're aiming for conservative treatment. Rudi
has also sustained a concussion, but no fractures.”
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Four other riders, including last year’s Paris-Nice
winner Maximilian Schachmann, were involved but they did not need to be taken
to hospital.
The three others who were also involved but, like
Schachmann, did not need to go to hospital and were able to go back to the team
hotel were Marcus Burghardt, Anton Palzer and Michael Schwarzmann.
One of the team’s riders, Ide Schelling, left a message
on Strava yesterday saying that while he was not present when the crash took
place, as he had turned off earlier, he had heard what happened and has now
expanded on that in the Dutch media.
"That motorist was at a stop sign but he just didn't
look at all and drove the whole group over like that," he said.
"No one really saw it, except for the boys. It was
soon clear that it was a serious accident and not just a small crash.
“It is also not nothing if you drive thirty or forty
kilometers per hour on a flat road and a car hits you at a reasonable
speed."
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