Kangaroo Collides With Cycling Aussie Cricketer

Bronwyn Calver, a member of the Australian women’s cricket team that bagged the World Cup in 1997, was injured by a kangaroo that suddenly jumped into her direction while she was cycling near The Lodge on Monday.

Because of the collision, Calver sustained an 11-centimetre long gash across her knee that required eight stitches, while the animal died. Not because it hit the athlete, but due to the animal becoming disoriented by its collision with her that it, in turn, was eventually hit by a passing vehicle, reports Canberra Times.

The two accidents happened at about 6:25 pm while Calver was riding her bike home on Adelaide Avenue near Capital Circle. Calver, who works at the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development in Civic, commutes four times each week, and on Monday opted to bike her way to the office and back home in Kambah.

“I saw this kangaroo about to hit my front wheel. I tried to brake and swerve but he just collected the wheel and I got thrown off over the side,” recalls Calver, who was inducted into the ACT Hall of Fame in 2013.

She adds it was her first time to see a kangaroo near Parliament House in one and a half years that she has been traveling from home to work. But whenever she sees the roos on the lower slopes of Mount Taylor, she slows down because the animal endemic to Australia is known to be sometimes erratic.

Three vehicles stopped and offered help by calling an ambulance and giving Calver a towel to wrap on her wound.

With a GoPro video camera mounted on her bike, she has a clip of the roo jumping in front of her bicycle, which she shared on social media.

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