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Follow us on GoogleIt has been reported that a marshal was required to usher a car off the route at the Eneco Tour. This comes just days after riders at the Tour of Lombardy held a mass protest. They were asking the UCI to take more care with rider safety after no changes seemed to be made following the tragic death of Finlay Tarling earlier in the year.
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Car on the course moments ahead of breakaway
Reportedly, a car entered the route of today's stage with around 70km to go to the finish. A marshal directed it to the side of the road to allow the breakaway to pass.
The peloton were over a minute and a half down at the time, so by the time they reached the area, the car had been removed from the course.
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It is yet another incident in a string of vehicles entering the race route, and causing harm, injury, and sadly even death, to the riders.
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Just days after protest at Lombardy
The Tour of Lombardy was the last Monument of the season, but it also served as a platform for the riders. At the start, they refused to move, in protest of the unsafe conditions. Remco Evenepoel spoke out in Bergamo.
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Evenepoel spoke up during the riders' protest at the Tour of Lombardy.
Evenepoel was handed the microphone and took the floor. He spoke about the death of Finlay Tarling in August, as well as the unsafe conditions in the Italian autumn races.
Evenpoel said, "Unfortunately we lost the life of a brother and of a colleague of us, so we want to make this statement to show to the world that we cannot keep accepting the fact that guys are getting injured or literally dying in what we like the most to do."
Since Finlay Tarling's tragic death, non-race vehicles have entered the route at the Giro dell'Emilia and Coppa Bernocchi.
A police motorbike going the wrong way during Tre Valli Varesine also knocked two of Tom Pidcock's Pinarello Q36.5 teammates down, leaving the Brit angry and frustrated.
The riders took to social media to express their concerns
Additional safety measures cannot prevent car accidents on the road
The organisers of the Eneco Tour decided to make safety a key area for improvement. Last year’s edition did not have a police escort, but this year it does. “We’ve also tripled the number of motorcycle escorts for safety,” said director Roxane Knetemann. But that wasn’t the only change.
For example, whenever possible, a closed circuit that is completed multiple times was chosen, making the course as enclosed as possible.
“The Netherlands is a densely built-up country, not only with houses but also with street furniture. That makes safety a challenge. But we’ve minimized the risks as much as possible, even though there’s always that one little figure peering over your shoulder who isn’t in the script.”
Even on the closed course around Ede, a car managed to squeeze its way onto the track. Suddenly, the lead group found itself staring at the brake lights of a vehicle on the road. A motorcycle police officer eventually escorted the car to a safe location.
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