Egan Bernal: this was the police report on the accident

the colombian cyclist Egan Bernal suffered an accident while training on the roads of Cundinamarca.

(Also read: Egan Bernal: suspended by the doctor, after crashing into a bus)

The first information that EL TIEMPO learned was that Bernal collided with a bus that was stopped on the road near the municipality of Gachancipa.

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The authorities indicated that the accident occurred at 10:05 in the morning on the Bogotá – Tunja road, at kilometer 33 + 800, sector Gachancipa and that it was caused by the closure of the side of the road.

“The vehicles were traveling in the Tunja – Bogotá direction, when a bus-type vehicle stopped to drop off a passenger and the driver of the bicycle-type vehicle, who was traveling in the same direction and in the same lane, did not observe the maneuver made by the bus-type vehicle colliding. by the back of it”, reads the road report.

Bernal and a group from Ineos, including Ríchard Carapaz, Daniel Martínez, Omar Fraile, Brandon Rivera, Andrey Amador and Carlos Rodríguez, have been training in Colombia for several days.

(Be sure to read: Egan Bernal: Ineos gives the first official report on his health)

“Ineos can confirm that Egan Bernal was taken to hospital following a training accident in Colombia this morning,” the team said in a statement.

It may interest you: (Egan Bernal has a fractured femur and patella in his right leg)

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