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Four cyclists in Australia found out to their cost that colliding with a dead animal can prove calamitous. The riders were cycling in a group with their club near to Shepparton in Victoria State when they hit a dead kangaroo in the roadway. Some of the riders in the group were able to swerve around the unfortunate creature but others were unable to avoid it, with three suffering injuries that required them to be hospitalised. It is thought that the kangaroo had been struck by a vehicle shortly beforehand. T
August 23, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Four cyclists in Australia found out to their cost that colliding with a dead animal can prove calamitous. The riders were cycling in a group with their club near to Shepparton in Victoria State when they hit a dead kangaroo in the roadway. Some of the riders in the group were able to swerve around the unfortunate creature but others were unable to avoid it, with three suffering injuries that required them to be hospitalised. It is thought that the kangaroo had been struck by a vehicle shortly beforehand. This roadkill vs cyclists incident bears similarities to one in Florida, when a group of six cyclists on a training run skidded on what was left of a dead alligator lying in the roadway.

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