Overview

• The crash occurred midway through Stage 2 around kilometer 66–68 at the N-234 crossing into El Amogable between Langa de Duero and Laguna Negra in Soria.
• The UCI and multiple outlets identified the victim as 17-year-old Iván Meléndez Luque of Tenerife Cabberty, who died during transfer to Hospital Santa Bárbara de Soria.
• Race officials suspended the stage and neutralized the event, and a tribute in Aranda de Duero drew the peloton, authorities and residents; the UCI issued a message of condolence.
• Reported injury figures differ by outlet, ranging from three riders evacuated to accounts of up to 18 injured, including some seriously hurt.
• Early reports attribute the initial fall to a wheel puncture that brought Meléndez down before he was struck by following riders, according to federative sources.