{"id":127288,"date":"2025-09-07T20:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127288\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T20:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T20:30:07","slug":"about-70-injured-in-mass-crashes-at-cycling-race-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/127288\/","title":{"rendered":"About 70 injured in mass crashes at cycling race in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around 70 riders were injured in mass crashes during a cycling race in southern Germany, according to police. Authorities said several of the cyclists suffered serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The accidents happened around 11:30 a.m. on Sunday during the RiderMan cycling event in the Black Forest region near the town of Bad D\u00fcrrheim, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presseportal.de\/blaulicht\/pm\/110973\/6112525\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">authorities<\/a> in Konstanz said. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the first crash occurred when a large group of riders bunched together in a curve, sending cyclists tumbling across the road. A second pileup followed as others slowed behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency services launched a large-scale response, with four rescue helicopters and numerous ambulances deployed to treat the injured. <\/p>\n<p>\tArticle continues below the player<\/p>\n<p>Police said between 15 and 20 riders were seriously hurt, while 20 to 25 others sustained minor injuries. Dozens more suffered scrapes and bruises but did not require hospitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said no outside interference was involved in the crashes. Organizers canceled the remaining races and ended the event early.<\/p>\n<p>The RiderMan typically attracts more than 1,000 amateur and semi-professional cyclists from across Europe. It takes place in Bad D\u00fcrrheim, a town about 90 miles southwest of Stuttgart near the Swiss border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 70 riders were injured in mass crashes during a cycling race in southern Germany, according to police.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[69892,49,48,635,69893,60,10816,82],"class_list":["post-127288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-bad-durrheim-germany","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-accidents","tag-featured","tag-germany","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}