Bike accident, Letizia Paternostercostretta to jump the World Cup

Still two blue cyclists hit by a car while they were cycling. This time to fall ruinously on the asphalt, I am the twenty year old Letizia Paternoster, European champion under23 and extraordinary pistard and the Roman Vittoria Bussi, holder of the hour record. The young woman from Trentino who suffered a fracture of the left scaphoid and a broken tooth will not be able to start in Australia for the track World Cup. For the athlete from Cles, invested in Arco, in the province of Trento, there is a prognosis of thirty days. The same prognosis also for Bussi, who fell in Turin due to a car that cut her off.
Letizia Paternoster was lucky. The dynamics of the accident could have caused far greater damage. The young woman running for the Trek-Segafredo, coming out of a roundabout, was overwhelmed and dragged on the ground for several meters. To contain the traumas, it was the readiness of the girl, who put her hands on to cushion the impact.
Reassuring news, they come from the Italian coach Dino Salvoldi, head of the women's sector at Federciclismo. "Letizia was going to the gym with her bike together with a friend. She was in a rotunda when a car hit her and dragged her 20 meters on her hood. The prognosis is thirty days and for at least 7-8 you will not be able to do workouts. This means skipping the World Cup test in Australia ”.
Too many cyclists die or are seriously injured on Italian roads and, despite regulations that force motorists to safety distances, accidents do not seem to abate. The week ended with Alexander's accident De Marchi, hit by a car while training and the anger of the CCC champion, against the motorist, who had not understood the gravity of the incident. Tuesday in Modena the Federciclismo had rewarded the young Samuele Manfredi, star of blue cycling and now confined to a wheelchair, after being run over by a car while training last December. The data provided by the Ministry of the Interior, unfortunately, are not comforting and on our roads, every 32 hours a cyclist dies. The reasons are always related to security that is not respected. Among the most frequent causes, there is the distraction of the driver of the car, in the use of a mobile phone or because engaged with the car radio. In other cases, the safety distance between vehicle and cyclist is not respected and in the overtaking maneuver, the car hits the bike.
Meanwhile, on the social networks, the outburst of Vittoria Bussi came out: “Do we play Russian roulette? Yesterday both me and Letizia Paternoster were victims of a bike accident, it was better for me than in Letizia. Cycling in Italy is a game of chance ”. Last updated: 15:09 © REPRODUCTION RESERVED