'It's only a matter of time until somebody is killed': Top Irish cyclocross racer back cycling two weeks after breaking bones in crash caused by trail trap

'It's only a matter of time until somebody is killed': Top Irish cyclocross racer back on the bike two weeks after suffering two fractured vertebrae, four broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung in crash caused by trail trap cycling

An Irish road and cyclocross racer has warned it is"only a matter of time until somebody is killed" by a trap as he returns to cycling just two weeks after breaking bones and suffering a partially collapsed lung after riding into a wire trap strung across a mountain bike trail.

The 20-year-old, who finished 40th in the men's under-23 race at the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Fayeteville in January and has competed at races such as Paris-Troyes and ZLM Tour for EvoPro Racing on the road this year, landed on a tree stump and sustained two fractured vertebrae and four broken ribs.

"Now it is just really nice to be on the mend and to know it is getting better and I am going to be grand. I am super lucky, really lucky I didn't do something worse. "Whoever set the trap had gone to great lengths because it was tied to a tree down a drop and the other end went off quite a way into the woods and tied up to another tree.

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