Wanty–Groupe Gobert, UCI Europe Tour
Antoine Demoitié
1990-10-16 ~ 2016-03-27
The group that crashed were travelling at around 70kph and then hit by an official motorbike immediately after crashing, according to Jurdie. While Ahlstrand and Cattaneo got up after the crash, Demoitié’s condition was immediately more serious.
While Jurdie recalled that another Wanty-Groupe Gobert rider was involved in the crash, the Belgian team have confirmed that this was not the case.
“I saw the guys fall, as if they’d lost their balance, they were just in front of us and went down on the left of the road. I immediately heard race radio shout: ‘Crash! Crash!’ But in the space of a second I saw a motorbike hit the riders. The motorbike pilot didn’t have time to brake. It was a race official motorbike. They’re there to control the race.
“Everything slowed down and I suspected that it wasn’t an ordinary accident. With Marc Accard my mechanic, we looked at what had happened in fear. We’d seen the Cofidis rider Jonas Ahlstrand get up after the crash, plus a Lampre rider I didn’t know plus two Wanty riders: Antoine Demoitié and another. I immediately noticed that the Belgian rider was in a fetal position, it was terrible.
“When you see a crash you always hope that the guys are okay but this time you could see it was serious. I would have loved not to witness it.”
簡單來說就是，在車速70kph的車陣當中有人忽然間失去平衡導致一組車手摔車，然後大會的摩托車直接追撞上倒下的Antoine Demoitié ．當場就是以重傷的事故，最後送醫不治死亡．
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