Armstrong crashes out of Tour of California

The picture above this posted by the AmgenTourofCali twitter page. It shows Lance Armstrong minutes after crashing. You can see his face is tore up and his jersey and bib too.

Armstrong's longtime coach Johan Bruyneel had this to say on his twitter:

Sorry to report there was a huge crash, with Chechu and Lance involved. Lance had to abandon and is going to the hospital for Xrays.

We now have to huge things to look for, A. the seriousness of Armstrong's injuries and B. how his exit of the Tour of California will affect the rest of Team Radioshack.

(This is from Just Northwest)

Helicopter crash in Buckley

I'm from the small town of Buckley, Washington. And while we usually don't focus on news stories here at JustSON, I had to share this.

I happened to be in Buckley yesterday visiting my parents and they live about a half mile from where the following incident took place. I had gone by the air strip just a bit after this happened.

Post on KOMONEWS.com

BUCKLEY, Wash. - One person was injured when an experimental helicopter crashed Saturday afternoon during a private air show. Medics and emergency personnel responded to the crash, at a small air strip near 252nd Street East and 112th Street East, at about 1:30 p.m. Russ McCallion, assistant fire chief for East Pierce Fire & Rescue, said the copter was hovering above the air strip, not far above the ground. He said the copter pilot thought a small plane was approaching and moved to avoid it. As he did so, the spinning rotor slammed into the ground and the helicopter flipped. Witnesses said a man jumped from the helicopter and waved, indicating he was not hurt. He refused treatment at the scene. A woman inside the helicopter was treated at the scene by medics from East Pierce Fire & Rescue, then taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

You can go to the site and click watch the video to see actual footage from the crash.