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@Jimmy_Fingers
At the end of the day riders do stupid things, and so do spectators. If Vansummeren is in anyway to blame for the lady conditions, then that goes double for the spectator that took down Popvych. There's always been nasty collisions between spcetactors and cyclists, and everyone from the race organisers, police, riders and spectators need to exercise intelligence and sense to minimise. The basic facts remain that those people should not have been on a traffic island in the middle of a road as the peloton rides by. The liability must be first with the people choosing to watch the race from there, and the organisers/police for allowing people to stand there and failing to place someone on there. And culpability for Vansummeren comes last IMO: he was in a bike race, he was going fast because of this and made a mistake somewhere leading up to that that caused him to be in the wrong part of the road and crashing into a road island. It is both his bad luck and that of the lady that she was there when that happened.