UAE Team Emirates will not pursue McNulty crash driver

UAE decline legal action

UAE Team Emirates has confirmed it will not take legal action against the road rage driver who caused Brandon McNulty to crash shortly before the start of Tuesday’s Tour de France time trial in Évian-les-Bains.

The incident, described as a brake check by a hit-and-run driver, happened at a point where the margin for disruption is unusually high. A time trial start is built around control - warm-up timing, equipment checks, pacing focus, and the final transition to the ramp. A crash in that window does not need to cause a major injury to matter, because it can break the routine that riders rely on before one of the most controlled efforts in the sport.

Why it matters

The team’s decision not to pursue legal action keeps the story from becoming a formal off-bike dispute, but the sporting and safety context is still clear. For riders, road rage is not an abstract risk. It can directly interfere with race preparation, and in this case it did so before a Tour de France time trial.

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