Johnny Hoogerland, a contestant in Tour de Force, was riding his bike after a rough night of sleep when he landed into a barbed-wire fence.
Hoogerland said he planned to keep riding the race on Tuesday after the rest day on the Tour, Monday, despite his 33 stitches and over 16 minutes of lost time in the crash.
The bizarre collision on Sunday also brought down Juan Antonio Flecha.
Prosecutors in Aurillac said on Monday that they were investigating what they called a “traffic accident with bodily injuries”. The incident involved a …

A Georgia Tech assistant professor died Saturday while riding a bike and crashed into a car.
33-year-old Kurt Lang Frankel of Atlanta was riding his bike on Saturday when a Mercedes struck into him.
Frankel was an assistant professor at Georgia Tech for Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.
The Daily News reported the driver of the Mercedes as Alexandra Elise Alford, 19, when she knocked Frankel from his bicycle.
Frankel was wearing a helmet and was pronounced dead 45 minutes later at Sacred Heart Hospital.
Georgia Tech’s website says Frankel earned his bachelor’s degree in geological …

Bicyclists riding around Santa Cruz County this summer have had a hard time. A lot of accidents have happened this summer, including this Sunday a 55-year-old Watsonville woman was hit by a motor home, the 3rd bicycle accident this summer in Santa Cruz.
The woman was apparently riding at around 8:30 a.m. when a motor home clipped her with its side mirror, says the California Highway Patrol. The bicycle tumbled to the ground and injured her leg. The motor home driver drove off.
This is the third accident this summer in Santa …

A Waterloo woman dies Tuesday morning in a bicycle crash, says the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office.
Vera Lucia Ribeiro-Sulentic, age 49, was the wife of Jim Sulentic from Sulentic-Fischels Commercial Group real estate firm.
Ribeiro-Sulentic was apparently the officer manager and held positions for the company since they had opened three years ago, says the vice president Chris Fischels.
The office in Waterloo was closed Tuesday the day after the accident.
Fischels says workouts were a part of his wife’s every-day routine.
“She was a very active, very athletic person,” he said. “She was always …

Police are still investigating the death of a man who died on Friday night on Mackenna Avenue from riding his bicycle into an uncovered manhole.
Kevin Johnson, age 44, was found by police around 10 p.m. still breathing, but no longer responsive.
His bicycle and his lower body were in the hole, say police. Three orange cones were even around the hole to prevent accidents.
The Niagara Falls Criminal Investigation Bureau is trying to figure out why the large metal plate which supposed to be covering the hole, was off of it instead.
Capt. …

Molly Metzger is a cyclists who says the number of those hit and killed by motorists on the main roads is enough to travel less on them.
“I don’t even like walking on the sidewalks,” said Metzger. “You never know. It’s very sad to hear about what happened on (U.S.) Highway 98. It’s brutal.”
Saturday morning 33 year old Kurt Frankel of Atlanta died on his bike from being hit by a car around 8:30 a.m.
He was taken to Sacred Heart Hospital and unfortunately pronounced dead less than an hour from …

Dennis Widener was left hospitalized last week with major injuries from a hit-and-run accident in late June.
He was riding his bike when a brown sedan, possibly a Toyota Avalon, hit him and drove away.
Spokane police are investigating the accident but have little evidence to go off of for this felony.
His wife, Helen, is hoping to find out any information about who struck him so close to their house.
“Where did the humanity stop?” Helen Widener said while visiting her husband at the Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. “People have …

New York has had two deaths this week, the first being Ray Deter who was an owner of a popular bar. He was hospitalized after a silver Jaguar hit his bicycle on Wednesday. His wife announced on Friday that he didn’t survive his injuries on his Facebook page.
A separate accident on Saturday left a former Manhattan Supreme Court referee killed when her bike crashed into a postal truck.
Dershowitz, age 68, was on her bike riding next to her husband before she got caught between a car and postal truck through …

British sprinter Mark Cavendish won the Tour de France after 16 stages including maneuvering around a pile of bike crashes.
Thor Hushovd of Norway sport’s his yellow jersey from beating Evans by one second. Frank Schleck from Luxembourg is third, only four seconds away from Scot David Millar at eight seconds.
Evans rode graciously to make sure to not give in to any rivals.
He was also protected by his lieutenant Marcus Burghart, who avoided him any trouble by steering him away from the string of accidents.
“More and more small roads, …

During the fifth stage of the Tour de France, no less than five serious bike crashes happened between the narrow and windy roads.
Course director Jean-Francois Pescheux, the race organizer of Amaury Sports Organisation, says the crashed were caused from being nervous.
“It’s the nervousness which reigns in the peloton,” Pescheux said. “For the green jersey the leaders are separated from each other by only a few points and for the yellow jersey it’s a matter of seconds. If the riders would be at three minutes in the general classification they would …