Wouter's Crash - many different accounts

RicodJour wrote:
Yeah, I think he did go over the wall. [...]
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.

No he did not go over a wall, skip a switchback step or otherwise fall
down the mountain. He clipped a barrier on the downhill side, bounced
and slid 20 metres and hit his face on a rock wall on the mountain side.

Poor *******.

That's for sure.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Weylandt#Death

"In stage 3 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia, Weylandt crashed descending the
Passo del Bocco, near the town of Mezzanego, suffering catastrophic
injury. While he was looking over his shoulder at other riders, the
left side of his bike struck a wall, sending him across the road where
he then hit another object at high speed."

Not clear who did the edit, or exactly where they sourced this
information. I looked at the three references cited, didn't see
anything about his looking over his shoulder.

Brad Anders wrote:
Not clear who did the edit, or exactly where they sourced this
information. I looked at the three references cited, didn't see
anything about his looking over his shoulder.

Throwing "wouter weylandt shoulder" into Google yields as first hit
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/...h-scene_172277
which references Manuel Cardoso as eye witness.

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helmut springer panta rhei

On May 10, 3:43*pm, Helmut Springer wrote:
Brad Anders wrote:

Not clear who did the edit, or exactly where they sourced this
information. I looked at the three references cited, didn't see
anything about his looking over his shoulder.

Throwing "wouter weylandt shoulder" into Google yields as first hit
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/...r-weylandt-mem...
which references Manuel Cardoso as eye witness.

The pictures and the account certainly clears up what happened. That
is one ****ed up transition from the steel barrier railing to the
stone wall. That's never how it's done as it's a recipe for a
disaster, whether it's a car or a guy on a bike. Typically the steel
railing would be in line with the face of the wall, and not have such
an abrupt transition. You can clearly see where he clipped the stone
wall, and the gouges in the pavement are incredible. I've never seen
anything like that from a bicycle crash.

R

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RicodJour wrote:

On May 10, 3:43Â*pm, Helmut Springer wrote:
Brad Anders wrote:

Not clear who did the edit, or exactly where they sourced this
information. I looked at the three references cited, didn't see
anything about his looking over his shoulder.

Throwing "wouter weylandt shoulder" into Google yields as first hit
http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/...r-weylandt-mem...
which references Manuel Cardoso as eye witness.

The pictures and the account certainly clears up what happened. That
is one ****ed up transition from the steel barrier railing to the
stone wall.

That is how it is supposed to transition
for traffic going the direction it is designed for.

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Old Fritz

RicodJour wrote:
the gouges in the pavement are incredible.

Police chalk, the caption says.

On May 10, 4:37*pm, Frederick the Great wrote:
*RicodJour wrote:

The pictures and the account certainly clears up what happened. *That
is one ****ed up transition from the steel barrier railing to the
stone wall. *

That is how it is supposed to transition
for traffic going the direction it is designed for.

Look at all of the pictures. You can clearly see both ends of the
stone wall and the railing on both sides of it. The stepped
transition is the same going either direction.

R

On May 10, 2:46*pm, RicodJour wrote:
On May 10, 4:37*pm, Frederick the Great wrote:

*RicodJour wrote:

The pictures and the account certainly clears up what happened. *That
is one ****ed up transition from the steel barrier railing to the
stone wall. *

That is how it is supposed to transition
for traffic going the direction it is designed for.

Look at all of the pictures. *You can clearly see both ends of the
stone wall and the railing on both sides of it. *The stepped
transition is the same going either direction.

R

Stop rubbernecking, the dude is dead, I'm sick of the two groups:
1) The OH MY GOD