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Mark Cavendish crashes out of 2015 Tour of Britain (video still from Jon Poole on YouTube)Video: Mark Cavendish's Tour of Britain crash
Video emerged over the weekend of the moment Etixx-Quick Step’s Mark Cavendish crashed out of the Aviva Tour of Britain after colliding with a parked car.
It was shot by a spectator close to the top of the climb of Gun Hill during Stage 5 of the race from Stoke-on-Trent to Nottingham, where Cavendish’s team mate Matteo Trentin was first across the line.
Madison-Genesis rider Tom Stewart, riding in Cavendish’s slipstream, is unable to avoid colliding with him, though he is soon back on his bike
Spectators then shield Cavendish and warn other riders and team staff of the crash, ahead of the race doctor’s arrival.
Although Cavendish was riding on the far right of the road, and therefore close to the line of cars, it may have been a gust of wind that actually pushed him into the car he hit.
Initially there were fears that Cavendish had seriously injured his shoulder, as happened when he crashed in Harrogate on the opening day of the Tour de France in 2014.
But on Friday evening, his Etixx-Quick Step team said he had suffered nothing worse than a contusion to the shoulder, and he has been named in Great Britain’s team for next week’s UCI Road World Championships in Richmond, Virginia.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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Always amazes me that people who go to watch bike races think it's a good idea to park on the course.
It looked like he was following a team mate who suddenly moved left to get around the car. Maybe the team mate wasn't paying attention and Cav was busy watching his team mate's wheel (and not looking ahead)? It's easy to do when you're suffering in a race.
Hard to blame the parking/car driver/organiser on that one, IMO. The car was parked off the road itself (or appears to be) and the rest of the road is free for the riders...who all ride past using just 2 feet of the road at its very edge, in a single file and many are stem watching (the pace is obviously very high).
I wonder whether Cav said any sweary words...
Is it true Cav gave the car a bollocking before they took him to hospital - and then blamed the driver?
Chapeau to the spectators taking care of him after he fell.
He was wearing a helmet so ok. All those cars driving by seeing cyclist down not moving up ahead, possibly badly hurt. As they get near relief as not our Team colours not our man, pass on by.
he did appear to be stem watching
His head is down and then he looks up at the last second, tries to swerve away from the car and scones himself.
Just lifted his head too late. I wonder why they were all following the edge of the road quite so closely...
Nasty, you don't come by those rainbow bands easily. Well done to everyone else who stayed calm. But, was the car okay? (Said no-one.)