Less than three weeks after teammate Tara Llanes broke her foot in a car accident, Giant-Pearl Izumi downhiller Dustin Adams has seen his season put on hold after he was hit by a car during a training ride in Kamloops, British Columbia over the weekend. Adams suffered a broken right wrist and says that the best-case scenario would have him back racing in time for September’s world championships in Switzerland.

According to Adams the accident happened when a car ran a stop sign and came into the intersection Adams was riding through. With little time to react, Adams ran into the passenger side door of the car and was sent flipping over the roof before landing hard on the pavement.

“I don’t think she ever saw me,” the 23-year-old Canadian said.

Adams was also in the team truck when Llanes suffered her broken foot back in mid-June, but escaped that incident with only bumps and bruises.

“I guess if you’re on the Giant team it pays to stay away from roads and stay on the dirt,” Adams quipped.

This is third time Adams has broken that same right wrist, and he said this time it may require surgery and the insertion of metal pins.

“I’m going to see a specialist this week,” he said. “But being that this is the third time, the doctors are wondering if it’s ever fully healed.”

Adams emerged on the downhilling scene a year ago taking a surprising third at the NORBA season opener in Big Bear Lake, California. He followed that with a fourth place finish at the 2002 World Cup race in Telluride and he ended the season third in the overall NORBA standings. He was also the top North American at the world championships in Kaprun, finishing 17th in the downhill.

This year Adams had been putting together another solid season and was sitting third in the overall NORBA downhill standings after three of five races. The Canadian is also the top ranked North American in the UCI downhill standings, currently sitting 23rd.

“I hope I can get back for world’s, but this one feels pretty bad,” Adams said. “I don’t want to go unless I’m all the way back.”