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'Tour de Yorkshire' near miss

Posted: 09 Jun 2018, 09:22
by FlyTexas
Yikes, that was close. :-O
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/44174201

Brian

Re: 'Tour de Yorkshire' near miss

Posted: 09 Jun 2018, 09:42
by Swanoir
Suspended for 50 days? If that volunteer hadn't gotten out of the way in time he'd be dead! No excuse for that 8)

Re: 'Tour de Yorkshire' near miss

Posted: 09 Jun 2018, 11:46
by 511Flyer
A years free supply of underpants for the marshall at least.

;)

Re: 'Tour de Yorkshire' near miss

Posted: 09 Jun 2018, 13:50
by Airspeed
Jeepers! :-O :-O

Re: 'Tour de Yorkshire' near miss

Posted: 09 Jun 2018, 18:00
by Nigel H-J
The Astana car came round a right-hand bend in the centre of the road and was unable to avoid the traffic island
What the hell was the driver doing? Had he been watching the road ahead there was ample time to avoid the collision, my thoughts are that his attention was distracted or was not looking ahead, may have even turned his head to speak to his passenger. The Marshall also appeared for some reason to ceased waving the yellow flag and just held it in a static position in front of him. Had he kept waving the flag it may just have been enough to catch the drivers/co-drivers attention? :dunno:

My thoughts anyway.

Regards
Nigel.

Re: 'Tour de Yorkshire' near miss

Posted: 10 Jun 2018, 04:29
by nigelb
Yikes! The driver should not need any flag, waving or not, to avoid hitting a traffic island. Failure to pay full attention. Just saying!

Nigel²