{"id":570982,"date":"2026-03-30T15:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570982\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T15:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:39:08","slug":"prosecutors-close-case-of-swiss-cyclist-muriel-furrers-fatal-crash-at-2024-road-worlds-pro-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/570982\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors close case of Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer&#8217;s fatal crash at 2024 road worlds | Pro National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ZURICH (AP) \u2014 Prosecutors closed an investigation on Monday into the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/road-cycling-worlds-swiss-rider-dies-e6fa3db871cdb493899beaa2cf561793\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">death of Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer<\/a> who crashed at the 2024 road world championships and was not found for more than one hour.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old Furrer crashed on a downhill section of rain-slicked road in a forest area approaching Zurich in the junior women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>She was not discovered for one hour, 22 minutes, the public prosecutors\u2019 office in Zurich <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zh.ch\/de\/news-uebersicht\/medienmitteilungen\/2026\/03\/toedlicher-unfall-an-der-rad-wm-2024--staatsanwaltschaft-stellt-.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said in a statement<\/a> on Monday. Her fall was not seen and she was not spotted from the road because she lay in undergrowth.<\/p>\n<p>Furrer suffered a head injury and she died the next day.<\/p>\n<p>It was \u201ca racing accident without any indication of criminally relevant conduct,\u201d the canton (state) prosecution office said, in relation to organization of the race and her medical treatment,<\/p>\n<p>Racers at the worlds in September 2024 were not wearing GPS trackers that would track their location.<\/p>\n<p>AP sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ZURICH (AP) \u2014 Prosecutors closed an investigation on Monday into the death of Swiss cyclist Muriel Furrer who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,219655,219656,82],"class_list":["post-570982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-pro_national_sports","tag-pronational_sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570982","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=570982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}