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Zed - do you know him or were you there?
The second crashed rider is actually a friend of mine from work.
And he's currently at home nursing a nasty broken collar bone and several broken ribs.
I wasn't there but his description is similar to cliveo's - he was too close to the person in front and clipped their wheel as they turned off, he went down and was then hit by the rider behind.
Luckily no-one else came off and he spent the night in hospital.
He says there was a woman with blonde hair who was very helpful and would like to thank her but can't recall her name.
(Can anyone help?)
Also he wishes to thank the rest of the staff down there.
Hopefully I can pass that thanks on to them this weekend.
He's no spring chicken and may be off any bike for a while.
So maybe he wasn't riding very well. And maybe - according to Cliveo's description at least - it was little surprise that he did crash.
But whilst I think it's perfectly acceptable for people who he was riding with or who saw the session to comment on that, I don't think it merits a "WAC" from someone who wasn't.
I think he's learned a very painful lesson.