You can clearly see in the video the runners have the red traffic light and they blew through it. The bus is driving legally. The runners are clearly at fault.
Was this road not blocked off at all? There were a couple youth races that started before the elites.
This could have been a disaster for the NYRR.
The NYRR doesn't pay any of the course marshalls. What do you expect when the NYRR just leach off everyone expecting free labour while their CEO makes hundreds of thousands?
Between this, the last minute Twin Cities Marathon cancellation, and the Olympic Trials Marathon fiasco, our sport has not been looking good lately.
What is the Olympic Trials Marathon fiasco? That it is scheduled for noon and a bunch of runners don't want it to be at noon? I'd prefer it to be in the morning but I can see valid arguments why it should be at noon.
Lawyers of Letsrun, who would have been on the hook if this had been slightly different?
Who would have been in the hook
5 runners would have been dead. That’s what we need to focus on.
This is nuts. Was the cross street not closed to traffic. The good thing is the bus (which has a green) looks to have been going slow and able to stop. But this is totally nuts.
Sadly ive seen this happen or heard it happened a couple times in road races I've ran. Regardless, it's unacceptable and likely attributed to people (whoever that may be) not doing their job adequately.
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