Hit by a truck, but determined triathlete pledges comeback

When triathlete Hannah Cutajar was hit by a truck two weeks ago as she was cycling in Żejtun, she immediately tried to get back on her feet. It was only when she could not hold herself upright that she realised the gravity of her injuries and her accident. Passers-by who witnessed her being thrown off her bike told her sternly to stay put as they called the ambulance. Within minutes, she found out she had sustained a broken collarbone. [attach id=781050 type="video"][/attach] “At 7.30am I was laughing with my sports buddies in the water, by 8am I was on the ground in agony... All because a driver didn’t see me,” Ms Cutajar said. The heavy vehicle allegedly cut through a main road without stopping and hit her head-on as she was cycling from the opposite end. The adrenaline had numbed the pain and the only thing on her mind was the upcoming Super League Triathlon Series. As the best sprint athlete, she had been given a wild card to race against international athletes for big prize money. “It’s been a week of pain, tears, sleepless nights and hospital visits. I think I woke up every single day last week hoping this was all a bad dream,” Ms Cutajar wrote on her Facebook wall. Her...