This set of photos shows the awful aftermath of a crash where a car hit a group of club riders out training in Donegal yesterday morning, Saturday.
When a group of cyclists set out for a pre season training rider yesterday morning, Saturday, they could never have known what was about to befall them.
This set of photos - obtain from the riders and published with their permission - reveals a scene of carnage after a car crashed into the group of five.
Two of the riders were taken to hospital and while they were kept in for observation overnight, Errigal CC has confirmed they were not badly injured.
Details of the incident are under investigation by the Garda but eyewitnesses said the car involved hit the riders from behind.
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Those who bore the full brunt of the impact hit the vehicle's windscreen, breaking it, and were thrown forward and up into the air.
The collision occurred at around 9am outside the Millbridge Bar in Kilmacrennan, Co Donegal.
The riders were an hour into their ride at the time and were making their way to Letterkenny to meet another group, including younger cyclists, who planned to join them.
Sean McFadden, who was in the group, said the riders were lucky nobody was killed.
“I was ahead of the lads and I heard a screech of brakes,” he told the Donegal Daily local news site.
“I turned around and all I could see was the lads being thrown up into the air and going over the car.
“They were just shunted into the air like rag-dolls and propelled down the road for what must have been seventy five yards or so.
“How none of those lads were seriously injured or even killed is a miracle. To be honest I’m still not right after it.
“It’s the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my years of cycling.”
He said the group of riders they were on their way to meet included his own young daughter Shauna, who represented Ireland at the Youth Olympics last year and will ride for the Nicolas Roche Performance Team this year.
“I don’t want to even begin to think about what could have happened if they had been involved when the crash happened”.
From all at stickybottle, we’d like to pass on our best wishes to the riders and their families, friends and club mates.
Hopefully everyone will recover quickly and we’ll see them back on the road soon.
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We’ll bring you news of the hospitalised riders just as soon as we get it.
But the diagnosis at the time of writing was that they had suffered cuts and bruises with no serious injury or broken bones.
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