'Tour de Yorkshire' near miss

[FlyTexas]

Yikes, that was close.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/44174201

Brian

[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

[511Flyer]

A years free supply of underpants for the marshall at least.

[Airspeed]

Jeepers!

[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?

My thoughts anyway.

Regards
Nigel.

[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