Adrian Black
It also looks like Bos is traveling quite a bit faster than Impey at
first - like he thought there was a hole shot there, then realized at
the last second that the fencing was in the way. Especially as a trackie
(as others have mentioned), some part of his brain might have thought
that grabbing Impey and pushing off him instead of grabbing brake might
save the day, and pushing his shoulder there rather than pulling could
easily induce enough countersteering in Impey to cause the crash... In
fact the more I look at it, I'm convinced he's trying to push forward
against Impey to slow himself rather than to try and change Impey's
line. Maybe he put his hand on his shoulder as a warning at first, then
as the situation escalated he didn't think he could brake with one hand
off the bars and instinctively started trying to push off him?
joe wrote:
> It appears to me that Impey is essentially holding the same line as
> the rider in red at the top of the screen. Given the distance from the
> barrier to that line of riders, Bos rides onto his left shoulder
> making contact by hand and does not make contact with the barrier
> until he has already started to pull Impey off his line. Besides,
> where did he think he was going? There was a rider in a blue kit right
> in his immediate line anyway. I'm sure some math or physics guy or gal
> can figure this one out.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Adrian Black
> *To:* obra@list.obra.org
> *Sent:* Wednesday, April 22, 2009 7:42 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [OBRA Chat] Theo Bos' side of the story.
>
> 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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