Tour de France organisers withdraw lawsuit against spectator who caused mass crash

[Onkel Neal]

Tour de France organisers withdraw lawsuit against spectator who caused mass crash

Big mistake, the organization and individuals that were in the crash should prosecute this idiot.

Race deputy director Pierre-Yves Thouault stated after the stage that ASO would sue the woman, saying, "We are suing this woman who behaved so badly. We are doing this so that the tiny minority of people who do this don't spoil the show for everyone."

However, Reuters reported ahead of Thursday's stage 6 that ASO will not take legal action against the 30-year-old woman.

She faces charges of 'involuntarily causing injury' and a €1,500 fine for her role in causing the crash, which saw DSM rider Jasha Sütterlin abandon the race with a hand injury and Movistar's Marc Soler leave the race later on after suffering fractures to both elbows and a wrist. Eight other riders were seen by the race doctor and numerous others suffered minor injuries.

Idiot.

[Moonlight]

^Load of rubbish.
It's not the spectators fault it's the organisers who are to blame, they let this happen all over the route, they're practically inviting such incidents to happen. Keep the spectators away from the riders and there won't be any crashes, excepting any accidents the riders cause themselves, it's not bleeding rocket science.


no gif

[3catcircus]

It's morons watching chemically-enhanced morons ride bicycles. They deserve each other. I mean, the bunch get taken out because the first guy can't ride through a piece of cardboard? My 12 year old can ride a bike better than that...

Just like morons who watch other morons kick a ball into a giant fishing net where a 1-1 tie game draws the drooling morons to cheer.

No thanks.

[Onkel Neal]

Originally Posted by Moonlight

^Load of rubbish.
It's not the spectators fault it's the organisers who are to blame, they let this happen all over the route, they're practically inviting such incidents to happen. Keep the spectators away from the riders and there won't be any crashes, excepting any accidents the riders cause themselves, it's not bleeding rocket science.

rl]

In this case, it certainly was a spectator who caused this.

The organizers should keep the spectators out of the route but there will always be some stupid who will ignore the rules.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Onkel Neal

In this case, it certainly was a spectator who caused this.

The organizers should keep the spectators out of the route but there will always be some stupid who will ignore the rules.

True that

[mapuc]

I guess this woman wanted her 15 minutes fame.

Markus

[MaDef]

Originally Posted by mapuc

I guess this woman wanted her 15 minutes fame.

Markus

I'd have to say mission accomplished.