The cyclist Alejandro Valverde is already recovering at home from the injuries he suffered in the outrage to which he was the victim this Saturday while riding a bicycle with other runners in the Murcian district of Javalí Viejo and will be available to compete in the Vuelta a España that starts on August 19 in the Dutch city of Utrecht.
The 42-year-old from Las Lumbreras, who is facing his last season as a professional, was discharged on the same Saturday night after remaining under observation at the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital, in El Palmar, to which he was transferred along with another companion -Pedro Moya-, who was also run over by a 69-year-old driver who fled and hours later turned himself in to the Murcia Local Police.
This happened after a motorist who was driving along the RM 560 road where the accident took place took note of the license plate, according to Antonio Sánchez, Valverde’s representative. The delivery was at the police station of the district of La Alberca de Las Torres, where the person who could be sentenced to up to four years in prison resides.
The vehicle that ran over the cyclists was stopped short by whoever was behind the wheel after receiving expletives from the members of the group of cyclists who saw how it passed at high speed by their side without respecting the stipulated meter and a half distance. The driver backed up and then sped up to hit the jocks, according to eyewitnesses.
Valverde, who was very dizzy on the ground at the time the accident occurred and with his bicycle destroyed, is not competing in the Tour de France with his team, Movistar, and took advantage of Saturday morning to prepare for The return to Spain.
As the serious incident remained “a scare”, as Valverde himself indicated on his social networks, El Bala will be ready to return to training in a few days with his mind set on his last participation.
Valverde, who was first treated on the asphalt by the health personnel who went to the point where the accident occurred and then examined in the Arrixaca, only suffers bruises, as verified by the scanner and the MRI that they have practiced.
