Teenage US bike owner star Magnus White struck and killed by automotive weeks earlier than world championship

A rising US bike owner star’s younger life was reduce quick Saturday when a automotive fatally hit him from behind whereas he was biking in Colorado forward of world championships in Scotland subsequent month, officers stated.

US Junior Males’s Nationwide Staff member Magnus White, 17, was killed using his bike close to his house in Boulder Saturday afternoon, USA Biking said in a statement Sunday.

“He was a rising star within the off-road biking scene and his ardour for biking was evident via his racing and camaraderie along with his teammates and local people,” USA Biking stated.

White was on considered one of his remaining coaching rides earlier than the Aug. 10 Junior Males’s Mountain Bike Cross-Nation World Championships in Glasgow when he was struck and killed.

The teenager’s biking resume contained quite a few accolades, together with successful a junior 17-18 nationwide championship in cyclocross in 2021 and clinching a spot on the US nationwide workforce.

He competed with the workforce in Europe forward of final 12 months’s cyclocross world championships and was chosen to signify the US once more at this 12 months’s cyclocross Worlds within the Netherlands.

He began stepping into highway biking and mountain biking this season.

White, who was carrying a helmet, was using south on the shoulder of Colorado State Freeway 119 when a 23-year-old Colorado girl behind the wheel of a Toyota Matrix drove onto the shoulder from the correct lane and struck him from behind, throwing him off the bike, Colorado Freeway Patrol advised The Put up, citing a preliminary incident report.

The Toyota then traveled off the correct facet of the highway down an embankment earlier than the automotive slammed right into a fence and stopped, freeway patrol stated.

The driving force was not injured.

White was taken to the hospital the place he died.

The investigation into the lethal crash is ongoing. It was not instantly clear if legal expenses are being pursued, nevertheless, state authorities don’t consider alcohol, medication or dashing have been concerned.

White leaves behind his mother and father, Michael and Jill, and his brother, Eero.

He started racing at a nationwide stage on the age of 10.

“We provide our heartfelt condolences to the White household, his teammates, associates, and the Boulder neighborhood throughout this extremely tough time,” USA Biking stated.

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