80 year old man nearly breaks bicycle record, run over by truck

Kamesaburo Harano, an 80 year old from Japan, set off in April 2006 to circle his homeland, and had just arrived back in home town and was hours from finishing his record trek before a truck ran him over in a tunnel.

“Probably he would have made it home in a couple of hours, certainly within the day,” a police spokesman in Nagano said

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