The lawyer handling the case told the Bulletin today that the police are investigating the accident which occurred while Jon was out training on his bike and was involved in a collision with a van.
The police and insurance companies are trying to establish who was to blame.
In the mean time, Jon is being treated for multiple injuries in a private clinic in Palma.
Jon told the Bulletin that he was just two minutes from his Palma home when the accident happened.
“I was dropping through Coll d’en Rabassa towards Molinar and then I woke up in an ambulance - can’t remember (what happened).
Apparently witness statements say a van driver didn’t look swerved across the road into oncoming traffic and me to park up.
He didn’t see me
Wiped out
Gone to the fairy for about 10 mins.
Woke up 2 mins from hospital,” he said via WhatsApp from his hospital bed.
With the cycling season in Mallorca about to start and a surge in vehicles on the roads expected during this early Easter, his message is for everyone, cyclists and drivers to keep their eyes on the road and to take care.
“Lots of broken bones but nothing that I am not use to,” he added.
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First, I want to wish Jon a speedy recovery. I hope that he will warn other cyclists of the dangers of riding on the Mallorcan roads. Mallorcan roads are absolutely NOT prepared for the amount of bikers that descend upon this little island every year. Mixing so many cars with cyclists is like mixing oil and water. Not good. Then you have way to many cyclists that think they can do whatever they wish by not following rules of the road and normal logic. Mallorca needs get serious and build more and better bike paths to protect both cyclists and drivers. And the cyclists need to use the bike paths.
He could just as easily been killed and he’d have known nothing about it. And he’s an ex pro. So many enthusiastic cyclists piling onto Mallorca’s roads now and many seem to have left their road sense at home, from what I’ve experienced these last two days. And if they are thinking that Mallorca is a safe place to ride and that the drivers here are considerate then they are in double jeopardy!
Mmmmm 'having been involved in an accident while cycling a few days ago in a Palma hospital'. Not sure that was where he was cycling.