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Wouter's Crash - many different accounts
From what can be known, he caught a pedal and it flipped him over a
rail and onto the road 60ft below. http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/bel...-1226053111409 I've also read "caught in a well and fell 200 ft " http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-RSS&ATTR=News some video after http://youtu.be/0A_QOKvUi5Q |
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Wouter's Crash - many different accounts
On May 9, 7:22*pm, Anton Berlin wrote:
From what can be known, he caught a pedal and it flipped him over a rail and onto the road 60ft below. http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/bel...-weylandt-kill... I've also read "caught in a well and fell 200 ft " http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...-ace-killed-in... some video after http://youtu.be/0A_QOKvUi5Q Tragic. The accounts are vague and unclear, but look at the frame at about :45 in the last video link above. That at least seems to show a perspective which provides a credible/plausible scenario. May he rest in peace. DR |
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Anton Berlin wrote:
From what can be known, he caught a pedal and it flipped him over a rail and onto the road 60ft below. [...] I've also read "caught in a well and fell 200 ft " He did not fall down the mountain. It was a straight stretch of the descent, he probably clipped some low road barriers on the left, bounced to the other side and hit a rock wall. He was probably dead immediately. They tried to resuscitate him for 40 minutes but called off the medical helicopter after that, which had been hovering unable to land closely enough. They called it then & there but waited with the public announcement (about 30-60 min later?) until they had got hold of his family. There was one gruesome close-up during the live broadcast where the right side of his head/face looked bloody and deformed. To me, he looked dead in that shot. |
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A. Dumas wrote:
He did not fall down the mountain. It was a straight stretch of the descent, he probably clipped some low road barriers on the left, bounced to the other side and hit a rock wall. Or he went down one step of the switchback. I didn't see a bike on the video anywhere. -- MfG/Best regards helmut springer panta rhei |
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"A. Dumas" a écrit profondement:
| He did not fall down the mountain. It was a straight stretch of the | descent, he probably clipped some low road barriers on the left, | bounced to the other side and hit a rock wall. He was probably dead | immediately. They tried to resuscitate him for 40 minutes but called | off the medical helicopter after that, which had been hovering unable | to land closely enough. They called it then & there but waited with | the public announcement (about 30-60 min later?) until they had got | hold of his family. There was one gruesome close-up during the live | broadcast where the right side of his head/face looked bloody and | deformed. To me, he looked dead in that shot. You're right about the road. Regardless of what might have happened initially, the brief shot before the Downstream Mixer cut to a shot of some trees showed him lying slightly right of the middle of a flat or possibly faux plat section of the course. However, the brief view of Wouter that was shown revealed that his face had suffered mega-major trauma and it appeared that his head was lying at an unnatural angle. -- Davey Crockett |
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On May 10, 9:05*am, Davey Crockett wrote:
"A. Dumas" a écrit profondement: | He did not fall down the mountain. It was a straight stretch of the | descent, he probably clipped some low road barriers on the left, | bounced to the other side and hit a rock wall. He was probably dead | immediately. They tried to resuscitate him for 40 minutes but called | off the medical helicopter after that, which had been hovering unable | to land closely enough. They called it then & there but waited with | the public announcement (about 30-60 min later?) until they had got | hold of his family. There was one gruesome close-up during the live | broadcast where the right side of his head/face looked bloody and | deformed. To me, he looked dead in that shot. You're right about the road. Regardless of what might have happened initially, the brief shot before the Downstream Mixer cut to a shot of some trees showed him lying slightly right of the middle of a flat or possibly faux plat section of the course. However, the brief view of Wouter *that was shown *revealed that his face had suffered mega-major trauma and it appeared *that his head was lying at an unnatural angle. -- Davey Crockett I can just imagine how bad it would have been if he hadn't been wearing a helmet. -ilan |
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ilan a écrit profondement:
| You're right about the road. Regardless of what might have happened | initially, the brief shot before the Downstream Mixer cut to a shot of | some trees showed him lying slightly right of the middle of a flat or | possibly faux plat section of the course. | | However, the brief view of Wouter *that was shown *revealed that his | face had suffered mega-major trauma and it appeared *that his head was | lying at an unnatural angle. | | -- | Davey Crockett | I can just imagine how bad it would have been if he hadn't been | wearing a helmet. | -ilan A potentially more disturbing aspect of the incident is that his family, friends and fans were probably watching the coverage. And when the feed cut so suddenly away, as opposed to the usual skinned knees/ass/etc. spills where the incidents are well covered, it didn't take much over a double digit IQ to infer that this one was life threatening or possibly fatal. -- Davey Crockett |
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On May 10, 1:42*am, Helmut Springer wrote:
A. Dumas wrote: He did not fall down the mountain. It was a straight stretch of the descent, he probably clipped some low road barriers on the left, bounced to the other side and hit a rock wall. Or he went down one step of the switchback. *I didn't see a bike on the video anywhere. -- MfG/Best regards helmut springer * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * panta rhei That's the way I see it also |
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Fred Bucephalus Birchmore wrote:
On May 10, 1:42 am, Helmut Springer wrote: A. Dumas wrote: He did not fall down the mountain. Or he went down one step of the switchback. I didn't see a bike on the video anywhere. That's the way I see it also But it is not what happened. He did not fall down the mountain and it was not near a switchback. |
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Wouter's Crash - many different accounts
On May 10, 12:16*am, "A. Dumas" wrote:
Anton Berlin wrote: From what can be known, he caught a pedal and it flipped him over a rail and onto the road 60ft below. *[...] I've also read "caught in a well and fell 200 ft " He did not fall down the mountain. It was a straight stretch of the descent, he probably clipped some low road barriers on the left, bounced to the other side and hit a rock wall. He was probably dead immediately. They tried to resuscitate him for 40 minutes but called off the medical helicopter after that, which had been hovering unable to land closely enough. They called it then & there but waited with the public announcement (about 30-60 min later?) until they had got hold of his family. There was one gruesome close-up during the live broadcast where the right side of his head/face looked bloody and deformed. To me, he looked dead in that shot. Yeah, I think he did go over the wall. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xim...-kolarza_sport On the section where he was lying it was a more or less straight part. Even at high speed a crash in that straight part would have been a more glancing blow. The injury looked to be more of an abrupt impact such as a fall from a height. Nothing glancing about it. Poor *******. R |
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