"Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico(Monday June-2-2008) Seven competitors from yesterday cyclist race were severely injured after being hit by a drunk driver, one of them died and other three were hospitalized. The drunk driver was arrested after the rest of the participants tried to lynch him.
30 year old Alejandro Alvarez, from Brownsville,Texas, was pronounced dead on the scene, while Alejandro Salvador Tamez, 18, Juan Machaita, 38, and Guadalupe Martinez,, 16, were severely injured.
Cyclists were participating in a race from Matamoros to Bagdad Beach, when drunk driver Jesse Campos, a Brownsville, Texas resident, in his Ford Grand Marquis, license 659-FKF from Texas, impacted seven cyclists, even as they were being escorted by Local Transit Officials."
Source: Periodico El Bravo
Pictures: Fidelino Vera
Taken from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/76008922@N00/2545836745/
2 comments:
that cop fucked up.... he should have taken the car head on... i mean he is the escort!!!! but the drunk driver is fuck too!!!!! this is very sad i dont dig it at all!!!!! :(
I hate this photo! I was a road biker and mountain biker my whole adult life before trading my saddle time in for time on a surfboard.
One rider friend is scared to surf due to sharks. You gotta be kidding me! Cars are way more deadly. They gobble up people daily!
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