I don’t know his story, but it doesn’t take much imagination. If a front fork fails, you’re going to faceplant. Depending on the circumstances, the consequences are likely to range from a little road rash on the low end to broken collarbone, fractured pelvis, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, paralysis, and unlikely but possible, death.

While the worst of those are unlikely, very good chance of medical bills exceeding $300.

I don’t mean to be an alarmist, and I currently am riding carbon forks that have been in crashes on 2 different bikes. Nonetheless if had any doubt about a fork’s integrity post crash I would definitely have someone look at it.