“I WOULD be dead or seriously injured and in a vegetative state if it wasn’t for my helmet.”
These are the words of an Andover man after he was caught up in a collision while racing his bicycle and skidded for 50 metres, bleeding, across tarmac.
John Penfound, of St Swithin Way, is still recovering after the accident in a race at Thruxton circuit on August 14 when he was leant into by another rider and the pair became tangled.
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