Belgian media reports that Evenepoel did not have time to turn when the door of a postal van suddenly opened. The crash was so hard that the frame of the bike broke. The first positive reports were clouded when Evenepoel was investigated more closely after the accident in Oetingen outside Anderlecht.
“He suffered fractures to his ribs, shoulder blade and hand,” said his stable Soudal Quick Step, announcing that Evenepoel will be transferred from a hospital in Anderlecht to another in Herentals for further examinations.
– He lay on the ground for a while. It was clearly a heavy blow. The door to the mail van was also completely twisted. His bike was completely brokenthey folded it up like a wheelchair. When I went to look, he looked as pale as a corpse, said Bart De Pelseneer, who has a slaughterhouse nearby, according to the AP.
– Remco has pain in his shoulder and hand, but it is better that the bike is in two parts than that the arm is, stable manager Partick Lefevere to Sporza.