So why did that idiot frog driver suddenly swerve right into the riders? Not like he needed to avoid anything.
Because it was either swerve or take out the tree coming up.
He was trying to miss a tree at the edge of the road.
Tour director Christian Prudhomme said the car had failed to heed directives on the race’s official radio channel.
“I announced on Radio Tour, which is the channel everyone should be listening to, that all cars should pull to the side and give priority to the team cars,” said Prudhomme.
“They did not take that order into account... and caused the crash of both riders. This behaviour is intolerable.”
It is the second such accident on the race.
On Wednesday, Denmark’s Nicki Sorensen was lucky to escape serious injury when a motorbike carrying a photographer tried to squeeze past the peloton through a non-existent gap on the side of the road.
The motorbike clipped the Saxo Bank rider, who crashed to the ground heavily