Riders, officials gather in Germany to commemorate Amy Gillett

Tuesday will be one year since the tragic accident in Germany that took
the life one of Australia's leading cyclists, Amy Gillett, and
hospitalized her five Australian Institute of Sport teammates - Alexis
Rhodes, Louise Yaxley, Lorian Graham, Katie Brown and Kate Nicholls -
with life-threatening injuries.

More here
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...l06/jul17news3


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EuanB

"Alan Erskine" wrote:

While it was/is a traumatic episode, why didn't they have a 'tail car'
(following behind the last cyclist with lights flashing and maybe even
revolving lights)?

Were you not aware of the circumstances of this collision? They were a small
group out on a training ride, not racing. Do you use a warning car with
flashing lights every time you go out riding with a few mates?

They did have the coach following in a car (don't know about signs, probably
no flashing lights ) but the driver was in an _oncoming_ vehicle. A tail car
would have been useless to prevent this collision. It was all down to driver
inexperience and a skills slip up as far as I can see.

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Cheers
Peter

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On 2006-07-18, Peter Signorini (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

"Alan Erskine" wrote:

While it was/is a traumatic episode, why didn't they have a 'tail car'
(following behind the last cyclist with lights flashing and maybe even
revolving lights)?

Were you not aware of the circumstances of this collision? They were a small
group out on a training ride, not racing. Do you use a warning car with
flashing lights every time you go out riding with a few mates?

They did have the coach following in a car (don't know about signs, probably
no flashing lights ) but the driver was in an _oncoming_ vehicle. A tail car
would have been useless to prevent this collision. It was all down to driver
inexperience and a skills slip up as far as I can see.

In fact, it was an oncoming collision partly from the side, so even a
lead car would have been no use.

Nothing short of having 1 tonne of metal around them would have saved
them.

Where have you been for the past year, Alan?

--
TimC
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
-- Hamilcar Barca in comp.os.linux.advocacy

Alan Erskine wrote:
"EuanB" wrote in message
...

Tuesday will be one year since the tragic accident in Germany that took
the life one of Australia's leading cyclists, Amy Gillett, and
hospitalized her five Australian Institute of Sport teammates - Alexis
Rhodes, Louise Yaxley, Lorian Graham, Katie Brown and Kate Nicholls -
with life-threatening injuries.

More here
http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?...l06/jul17news3


While it was/is a traumatic episode, why didn't they have a 'tail car'
(following behind the last cyclist with lights flashing and maybe even
revolving lights)?




Absolutely ASLAVS with very generous rules of engagement. For example
warning signs on the vehicles saying "DO NOT OVERTAKE OR YOU MAY BE
FIRED UPON" troopers to wave you back and should you cut into the
convoy anyway while having weopons visible a burst of machine gun fire
in the face.

Oh hang on.. we did that the other week and ended up paying compensation
to the guy shot. Hmmmmmm

Dave