Australian cyclist Katie Brown lays in a hospital room at the University Clinic in Jena, eastern Germany, on Monday, July 25, 2005. The Australian cycle team were injured in an accident near Zeulenroda in eastern Germany on Monday, July 18, 2005, in which their teammate Amy Gillett was killed when a car crashed into the group of the Australian women's team who were training for the Thuringia Cycling Tour.(AP Photo/Jens Meyer)
Tragedy in Germany
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2 comments:
Hi Trée, do you any more exact information which way this terrible accident arised? I know from your blog, that the driver was a women 18 year old with the new driver's license. Thx!
Jaroslav,
Here is what is reported:
Quizzing of AIS crash driver on hold
By Rob Hyde in Halle, Germany
July 23, 2005
THE driver of the runaway car that hit and killed an Australian Institute of Sport cyclist and seriously injured two others has been released from hospital in Germany.
The 18-year-old, whose first name is Steffi, had been suffering from shock and a minor head injury.
Police are not expected to interview her for at least three weeks while they gather evidence about the fatal crash.
The inexperienced driver was at the wheel of a Volvo when AIS cyclist Amy Gillett was killed near the town of Zeulenroda in eastern Germany.
Five AIS road cycling team members remain in hospital in nearby Jena, two in a critical condition.
Police want to speak to the Australian cyclists before interviewing Steffi about her role in the collision.
Steffi was quoted by newspaper Berliner Zeitung as saying she did not remember the incident, but hospital officials have accused the paper of fabricating the quotes.
And this from another article:
Tragic accident happened in seconds: injured cyclist
July 23, 2005 - 9:19PM
Graham: the car was out of control.
Photo: cyclingnews.com.au
Australian cyclist Lorian Graham thought at first the motorist was trying to have a go at the women's team taking part in the training session in the German countryside.
But within seconds, the car driven by an 18-year-old novice driver had ploughed into the six riders from the Australian Institute of Sport last Monday, instantly killing Amy Gillett and injuring the others, two critically.
"The person was going very fast, the car was out of control," Graham said on Saturday, the first time she has spoken to the media about the devastating accident.
"Personally, I thought for a split second the driver might have been trying to be funny because we do have problems with motorists at times.
"The car didn't correct itself and before I knew it the back end of the car had turned around and that was what I hit."
Graham was fourth in line at the time of the accident behind Gillett, Louise Yaxley and Kate Brown, with Katie Nicholls beside her and Alexis Rhodes behind when they were hit.
The team had been taking part in a training session near the town of Zeulenroda, 80km south of Leipzig.
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