Woman charged with reckless driving after Giant-Alpecin crash

Spanish police have charged a 73-year-old British woman with reckless driving following Saturday’s crash when a car was in collision with a group of riders from the Giant-Alpecin team, leaving six of them requiring hospital treatment. The woman has been released from police custody.

Peter Cossins has written about professional cycling since 1993 and is a contributing editor to Procycling. He is the author of The Monuments: The Grit and the Glory of Cycling's Greatest One-Day Races (Bloomsbury, March 2014) and has translated Christophe Bassons' autobiography, A Clean Break (Bloomsbury, July 2014). 

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