Mexico crash image

http://www.flickr.com/photos/76008922@N00/2545836745/

Sweet Jesus that looks horrendous! :(
What's the story?

whoa! image is deleted ?

Drunken driver fell asleep at the wheel and plowed into a peloton. Police had to save him from being lynched which was a shame.

Here is the pic rehosted,

http://drunkcyclist.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/image002.jpg

[INDENT]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.
News Source: Periodico El Bravo
Pictures Taken By: Fidelino Vera
[/INDENT]

christ !!! that's awful, looks like the driver didn't give a fuck. what a tosser.

fucken hell, that's a nightmare. my sympathies to the families affected. kinda wish they'd been left to lynch him tho, tough justice.

It's in the Sun today. They say 3 people died, but that's the Sun. Truly awful - and not w/o precedent.

That image is total carnage. The guy must have been going fast.

Jeezus, that is horrific! I was in Mexico over Christmas and New Year, and the driving over there is very bad, saw 3 fatal accidents whilst I was there! I for 1 would not ride a bike on the roads over there.

the guy was drunk. can happen anywhere. and people fall asleep whilst driving all the time. a mate once fell asleep (due to fatigue not alcohol) whilst going over bridge below...the barriers woke him up

nice of the cop car to get out of the way for him!!!

brutal. that looks like the police car out of transformers

the guy was drunk. can happen anywhere. and people fall asleep whilst driving all the time. a mate once fell asleep (due to fatigue not alcohol) whilst going over bridge below...the barriers woke him up

Westgate?

yep, westgate bridge. he fell asleep for a couple of seconds and the car swerved onto the side barriers. he was wide-eyed after that.

this is sickening.

that is a shocker

Damn, that is one scary picture...
HTF did someone snap that ?

It's also on CNN, if you want a more reputable news source than the Sun.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/06/02/mexico.bikers.ap/index.html

i got this form another source. horrendous.

how do they know he fell asleep ? he might have done it on purpose !

my source also said there is a pro speeding forum called pistonheads where they are all having a good laugh about it.

car enthusiasts = murderous facists.

i am beginning to think so. what with all the issues concerning motor powered vehicles.

why do let them drive through our community anyway ?

what is wrong with our leaders that they cant stand up to the motoring lobby and tell them 'we dont want you anymore - you are doing bad things'.

gotta get it of my chest somewhere.

apologies if i am boring you all.

gonna go to bed now.

Because who are you to tell people how they should get about?

Because who are you to tell people how they should get about?

Well, if I was in the government.... i'd be the Government.... aren't they supposed to tell people how to get about ?

I just saw it a sec ago and came to post it on here.

It indeed is spectacularly horrifying.

As its Mexico im still hoping its some photochop job by a crime tabloid, with much exagerration.

If it is indeed as it looks though, maybe the punishment will be fitting over there.

we know how cars sounded when they crashed with each other, we know how bicycles sounded when they crashed with each other.

Right now I just don't want to know what a car and bicycle combine sounded when they've crashed.

Eek, horrible.

12 club riders got hit while out on a Sunday 60-miler in Wales a few years ago. 4 were killed.

car enthusiasts = murderous facists.

i am beginning to think so. what with all the issues concerning motor powered vehicles.

why do let them drive through our community anyway ?

Fascism is the ideology that makes the individual will entirely subserviant to the nation/state.

For the government 'to tell people how to get about' would arguably be fascist.

I think car ownership is the opposite evil - an individualist, ego-centred, 'nobody else matters' pathology.

I'm not sure that I agree with you definition of fascism.