Originally Posted by
msd3075
A couple of guys in our group got ahead of us a little bit an witnessed a very bad crash on the 2nd stage. A rider got her wheel caught in one of the expansion joints/cracks in the pavement and did a endo/face plant and was knocked unconscious for a minute or so. They stopped to help out, but said their were a bunch of people helping and they were just getting in the way so they left. We passed by after she regained consciousness, but they were holding her head and neck still. She was moving all her limbs so I guess that's a good sign. Hopefully she's doing better and it wasn't anything too serious.
There was a bad accident on R2R last week as well. I didn't see it happen, but there was a girl laid out on the ground holding her arm. Looked like collarbone. It was at a (dry) water crossing, so steep descent/ascent. They always seem to have concrete at the creek and the transition to the asphalt was in bad shape. She must have hit a crack or hole pretty fast and gone down. The ride marshals were all over it, slowing people on the down slope and keeping everyone moving so as not to create a bottleneck. They did a great job. Hope she's ok.