Man charged with mowing down, killing Israeli cycling champion while drunk and unlicensed

The Beersheba District Court indicts a man accused of running over and killing a top cyclist last month while drunk and unlicensed.

Nachman Khoury is charged with negligent homicide for the killing of Guy Timor, 21, a member of the Israeli national team in track and road cycling.

Timor was killed during his final training session before he was set to fly to the Czech Republic for a Grand Prix competition.

According to the indictment, Khoury violated the conditions of house arrest imposed on him by a Haifa court and drove to a friend in in the south, even though he had never been issued a driver’s license and was ineligible to obtain one.

While at his friend’s home, Khoury consumed alcohol and drugs, the indictment says, according to the Kan public broadcaster.

In the morning, two of his friends asked for a ride somewhere else and Khoury volunteered.

According to Kan, he did not comply with his friends’ requests to stop and continued driving fast and dangerously.

The report says he swerved sharply from lane to lane and almost hit a minibus with children that was stopped at the side of the road. After several more requests from his friends to stop, they managed to get out of the vehicle, but Khoury continued driving.

Khory apparently hit Timor while trying to escape from police officers who ordered him to stop when he was seen driving erratically.

“This is a killer among us. Guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time, but the same killer could have killed many others, the children and other people who were at the bus stop,” Timor’s parents tell the Kan public broadcaster.

רוכב האופניים גיא תימור, חבר נבחרת ישראל באופני מסלול וכביש, נהרג הבוקר בתאונת דרכים באזור לכיש. תימור, בן 21 ממושב יד נתן, היה בעיצומו של אימון בוקר כהכנה לתחרות גראנד פרי בצ'כיה כשנדרס על ידי אדם שנהג בכלי רכב ללא רישיון בעת שניסע לברוח מהמשטרה

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