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Glad to hear there's not been a fatality.
Don't think it is fair to say Vansummeren misjudged anything-looked more to me like the peloton split in two to go around the island and the bunch narrowed, Vansummeren got squeezed out of the right hand split and either tried to make it over to the other side to avoid crashing or due to the speed they were all going at just couldn't avoid the impact, it didn't look like he even had time to brake so don't think he was expecting to be there.
Either way, it's the race organisers job to make sure people are behind barriers or not standing smack bang in the middle of the road, trying to prosecute Garmin or Vansummeren himself is nuts. I just hope the lady makes some kind of recovery.