USA Biking introduced yesterday that 17-year-old bike owner Magnus White died throughout coaching in Boulder, Colorado when a driver hit him with their automobile on Saturday. White was lower than two weeks away from touring to Glasgow, Scotland, to compete within the Junior Males’s Mountain Bike Cross-Nation World Championships on August 10.
He was additionally a Boulder native and is described as “a rising star within the off-road biking scene.” Just lately, he received the 2021 Junior 17-18 Cyclocross Nationwide Championships, competed with the USA Biking Nationwide Crew in European Cyclocross racing, and later the 2022 UCI Cyclocross World Championship. He additionally represented the U.S. on the Cyclocross World Championships in January 2023. Earlier this summer season, he earned a spot on the Mountain Bike World Championships staff.
“We provide our heartfelt condolences to the White household, his teammates, buddies, and the Boulder neighborhood throughout this extremely tough time,” USA Biking mentioned in an announcement, including, “We trip for Magnus.”
In response to the Denver Put up, White was using alongside Colorado 119 north of Boulder on Saturday afternoon when the 23-year-old driver of a Toyota Matrix hit him along with her automobile. He was taken to the hospital the place he was pronounced useless. Colorado State Patrol Trooper Gabriel Moltrer instructed the Put up that they don’t consider medication, alcohol or pace had been an element however are contemplating distracted driving as a trigger. In the meanwhile, it doesn’t seem that the driving force has been arrested.
This information comes lower than two weeks after a bike owner in Denver was killed by a hit-and-run driver in a Toyota FJ Cruiser. Police discovered the alleged driver, Steven Bielas, later that evening and arrested him. Just a few days earlier, one more Denver driver ran over a bike owner, sending her to the hospital. She reportedly suffered a damaged femur, 5 different leg fractures, pelvic fractures and, in line with her GoFundMe, 11 fractured ribs. The bike owner, Dana Fells, is reportedly steady after surgical procedure however nonetheless faces an extended street to restoration. Denver police cited the driving force with careless driving leading to harm and driving and not using a legitimate license.
