Last Friday evening on the A50, close to Arnhem, Hollande, a smash between a car and a truck occurred; the Dutch runners Churandy Martina, Hensley Paulina e Terrence Agard were inside the car.
The details of the accident are not quite clear but, in order to get the athletes off from the car it was necessary to cut a portion of the top of the car. It was a nasty accident but, fortunately, it ended in the best possible way.
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Martina and Paulina were released after the routine checks, while for Terrence Agard it was more complicated. He broke one vertebra and he will have to attend from 3 to 6 months of rehabilitation.
Terrence Agard is a Dutch sprinter specialised in 200m and 400m with personal bests of 20″78 e 45″94; in 2007 he took part to the Young World Championships in Ostrava.
“Now I can walk again, talk and even brush my teeth – Agard wrote on his Instagram profile – it is a miracle we survived the accident“.
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