Marco Haller narrowly avoids disaster on training ride in Austria: "Suddenly the white reversing lights came on"

BORA - hansgrohe rider Marco Haller has revealed just how close he came to disaster whilst on a training ride in his native Austria.

Luckily escaping a freak accident, Haller reveals how an incident on a single-lane road in Austria could have ended a lot worse. "A pickup stopped in front of oncoming traffic," he explains to Kleine Zeitung. "Suddenly the white reversing lights came on. At the last minute, I managed to get off the pedals with my shoes."

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It's incredibly lucky for Haller that he did indeed manage to unclip as just moments later the pickup truck drove right over the 32-year-old's expensive, specialized bike, squashing it. "At first the driver thought he had just hit a branch," Haller recalls. 

"But the bad thing is that something like that doesn't have to happen because of too great a risk, because I didn't take it now," he continues. "Imagine what happens in the city at a traffic light and there is a child on the bike," Haller concludes.

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