A member of Ho Chi Minh City's motorcycle sport team died and another broke a leg in an accident on Sunday when the team members were escorting cyclists of a women's bicycle race in Dong Nai.
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| Lin A Sang, a member of HCM City’s motorcycle sport team, is pictured lying on the ground in an accident while escorting motorcyclists in a bicycle race in Dong Nai on March 1, 2015. Sang was run over by a motorcycle and died later in a hospital the same day. |
A member of Ho Chi Minh City’s motorcycle sport team died and another broke a leg in an accident on Sunday when the team members were escorting cyclists of a women’s bicycle race in Dong Nai.
The dead victim was Lin Ma Sang, 53, and the escort who had a broken leg was Tran Ngoc Thach.
The accident occurred when Sang, Thach and other members of their team were escorting the racers of the Binh Duong International Women’s Bicycle Race Open Championship from the southern province of Binh Duong to Dong Nai's Dinh Quan District for the race’s second section, which stretches from the district to Bao Loc District in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, on March 1.
When the cyclists and their escorts were about one kilometer from the starting line in Dinh Quan, a group of tourists on about seven motorcycles tried to overtake the escorts at very high speed, causing collisions between the motorcycles of both sides, a Tuoi Tre (Youth) correspondent reported from the scene.
During the collision, Sang fell to the ground and was run over by one of the motorcycles, while Thach dropped to the ground and broke one of his legs.
Some other members of the escort team were slightly wounded.
The race’s health workers gave Sang first aid and took him to a hospital for emergency treatment but he died later.
When the accident occurred, the motorbike escorts were running at about 40 kph while members of the tourist group passed them at higher speeds and encroached on the wrong lane, news website VnExpress quoted deputy chairman of the Vietnam Motorcycle Federation Ngo Quang Vinh, who is a member of the race’s organizing board, as saying.
Members of the motorcycle tourist group were on their way from the Mekong Delta to the Central Highlands region, according to VnExpress.
Sang’s relatives took his body to Ho Chi Minh City and the race later finished safely in Bao Loc, the newswire said.
Police are probing the accident.
(Source: TTNews)
