Re: Crash in Worcester

On 11 Mar, 10:56, "David Biddulph" <groups [at] biddulph.org.uk>
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Does anyone have any background on this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/7286391.stm

Man injured in rowing collision
A 50-year-old man had to be airlifted to hospital after a collision
involving two rowing boats in Worcestershire.
He was in an eight-man vessel such as those "used in the Oxbridge boat
race" on the River Severn by Grimley, the ambulance service said.

The victim, whose foot was trapped, broke his ankle.

None of the other rowers were injured in the incident close to Camp
Lane on Saturday, a spokesman for the ambulance service added.

A bit more info athttp://www.worcesternews.co.uk/display.var.2104730.0.0.php
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David Biddulph
Rowing web pages athttp://www.biddulph.org.uk/

Isn't it a pity the accident was described as "freak". There are
enough of them not to be "freak" with the implication that they are so
rare it's not worth trying to fix the cause of them.

With all of the reporting on the Drysdale vs Waddell races there was
only one article where I did not have issue with the facts and
impression given by context.

Taniwha
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