
Originally Posted by
bmccasland
my 2 cents... FWIW... the driver should have hit the brakes, or hit the tree. But a natural reaction is to swerve, unless one is a very well trained sunt car driver. Most of us had driving lessons when we were teenagers, then everything else we've learned is from the school of hard knocks. As humans we tend to over-react - thus swerving wider than necessary.
But seems to me that the people in that car should be publically apologizing.
Maybe I'm just cranky because I woke up this morning feeling like crap and went to PT anyway. (tummy decided it hated me, knee and I are on speaking terms)
The driver should not have been moving in the first place. He should have been pulled over at the side of the road. That's what race managment had instructed him to do. They told him to pull over so Voeckler's team car could pull up and give him water.
And if he had not been told to pull over, he was supposed to honk the horn to warn the riders that he was passing. He didn't do that, either.
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