A cyclist suffered a shattered collarbone and three broken ribs after ploughing into a wire deliberately strung up across a popular pathway.
A cyclist suffered a shattered collarbone and three broken ribs after ploughing into a wire strung across a popular pathway.border when everything went dark.
‘My helmet was split and I had grazes on my legs but at that stage I didn’t know what had happened. As I came round, I began feeling pain under my cycling top.’ It’s believed the trap had been purposefully designed to catch the handlebars of an adult bicycle such as Ian’s, who had been cycling at around 20mph.
‘He overtook me just before we reached the corner where the wire was,’ she added. ‘If he hadn’t gone past me, it would have been me going over that wire.’