Yesterday there was a terrible incident in Brazil, in Rio Grande do Sul.
There was a bike event, with lots of cyclists riding in a street. A car, maybe a VW golf, drove right through the crowd, mowing down over 20 cyclists.
This was on the news.
Here is a link to the video.
It is very shocking, so don't click if you have children around. It was on the equivalent of Sky News.
As far as I can work out (I don't have great Portuguese) the driver was not caught. He drove off without stopping.
It's an insane world at times.
That's is horrible.
Yeah - I am hoping to do some much happier bike reports from Brazil once I have a bike. My bike is still in Scotland so have just been out and about doing reconnaissance.
There are some mad things on the news over here every week. I didn't hear them say there were any deaths, which is quite a amazing.
Oh blimey sorry for the double post. I was away all weekend and didn't think anyone would have seen it.
Just stunned it hasn't been picked up by any mainstream media. Kept checking on 'trends' on Twitter - nada.
Google news searched a few times and again, nothing apart from cycling forums.
No international news recognition!
Not a viral / hoax is it... bad taste I know, but hell why are bbc, cnn, sky or papers not picking up ?!
It's on the BBC News home page.
"[i]The driver, 47-year-old Ricardo Neis, alleges that he and his 15-year-old son felt threatened when protesters began to hit and kick his car.[/i]"
I must be looking on a different BBC news page, as I've just checked right through to the Latin America page, and there's still nothing. Sky have picked it up though, although that's about it.
[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ ]In the Watch/Listen section[/url] (Top R/H corner on my browser)