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2 days agoSkydiving instructor dies after being separated from student, officials say
A skydiving instructor died after separating from a student; the student survived with minor injuries and authorities are investigating.
I was feeling quite exhausted after the flight, and while walking down a steep cobblestone street, I tripped. I flew through the air and fell flat on the ground, face first. For some reason, the instinct to put my hands out to cushion the fall hadn't kicked in, so I landed straight on my chin. I knew immediately that my jaw was broken I'd heard the awful crack. Before long, blood was gushing down my face.
The crash on a fast, narrow section of densely wooded downhill saw race leader Paul Lapeira (Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) and former Pologne winner Rafal Majka (UAE team Emirates-XRG) amongst the multiple fallers, second-placed Mathias Vacek (Lidl-Trek) forced to abandon, and several other riders... forced to quit.
The driver of an allegedly stolen car sped across the Manhattan Bridge and lost control, striking and killing two people before careening into an NYPD van on Saturday morning.
Zair Murzakov, a married father from Brooklyn, died when his tractor-trailer plunged off the Delaware Memorial Bridge early Friday morning, falling over 170 feet into the river.
I had no right to survive after being crushed by my own snowplough. It was a miracle, and at one moment, I experienced powerful peace.
“We hope that there will be accountability for his life, a legacy to him in that these trucks will be more safe for our community,” their attorney Mary Alexander said during a press conference Wednesday.
"Obviously, it wasn't my intention to cause a crash; I didn't want to take any risks. I was clearly thrown off balance; I almost lost my shoe. Even if it wasn't intentional, I want to apologize to Philipsen and Alpecin-Deceuninck. Even if I'm not a bad guy, it's not pleasant."
"A bad day, you can imagine that... Having the green jersey abandoned, it's not a pleasant experience. I looked at the images a bit, I really don't know what happened in fact," said Coquard as he spoke to reporters at the team bus.