lisa graham
Just one more thing, when you see police cars, flares and hear sirens ahead of you, know something bad has happened and slow the**** down .I had to yell at racers sprinting through our make shift ER, like it was really going to make a difference in you placing at that point, to the ones who slowed down thank you, and the ones who didn't shame on you, lets hope you are never in that situation.
Hat off to the women racers and the four guys trying to finish ,your cooperation was really appreciated today.
Lisa Graham
4/5 official
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Richardson DMS01
To: obra@list.obra.org
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2007 10:33 PM
Subject: [OBRA Chat] Silverton Crash volunteers
First - I am amazed and completely impressed with how
smoothly a group of relative strangers formed a cohesive
team today to stabilize and triage their injured fellow
cyclists. It speaks to the esprit de corps of our cycling
community. It helped that once volunteers arrived on site,
they identified themselves and what their training was, and
then were easily given an appropriate job to do. It was also helpful that non-injured and racers with
minor injuries kept moving and didn't clog up the road.
Second - If you're racing and come upon a crash SLOW DOWN
AND KEEP YOUR HEAD UP!!! Be aware that we cannot move the
injured off the roadway if we are concerned about head or
spinal injuries! Several racers were near sprinting through
the crash scene grumbling that we were in the way - I'm sure
they didn't know what we were doing or how serious the
injuries were, but please if for nothing more than your own
safety (pedestrians and debris littered this road), go to
neutral and keep your head up, or become part of the mangle.
Just my two cents - Thanks.
Judy
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