Adrian Black

http://spiretech.com/~ablack/20090419_turkey_bosimpey.mp4

This is a reasonably high res version of the crash, and you can see
(especially in the slow-mo) that Bos was literally pushing the fencing
aside with his hips for a good 5-10 meters before they both finally go
down. I'm pretty convinced it was just a bad reflex action when he found
himself ricocheting off the barriers - call it bad decision making
putting himself there in the first place, but I don't see any malice in it.

Doug Sears wrote:
> I agree. I watched this a lot, too, and I think we can't see a lot of
> the important action, which took place just off camera, below the
> screen. There's a third rider whose head appears at the last instant
> before the crash: the third man who went down, who may have had a
> significant role in squeezing Bos into the barrier. I wouldn't want to
> even guess at placing blame without seeing the off-camera part.
>
> --Doug Sears
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* chood1@comcast.net
> *To:* Brian Ratliff
> *Cc:* obra@list.obra.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:54 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [OBRA Chat] Theo Bos' side of the story.
>
> I have watched this video quite a bit and it begins to look like
> Theo Bos may be innocent of "purposely" causing the accident. It
> does look like he simply tries to push him a bit at which
> point,Bos does seem to start falling first and I think his initial
> reaction was "oh sh..." and simply grabbed a hand full of jersey
> as a "grab onto something I am going down" kinda way.
>
> Not saying he shouldn't be held accountable. I am just saying that
> watching the video closely I start to believe he really didn't
> mean any harm.
>
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