Agreed it does happen, a member of our cycling team died in a horrific accident a bunch of years ago during the Tour d'France. his death was related, in part, to the helmet debate, but the point is it does happen. But there has to be a consideration of what is reasonable. There appears to be perhaps an unreasonable amount of risk associated with the design of that track. If those beams were covered or a wall of some sort was higher this person may not have died. To press this to the airport analogy, the FAA does mandate that trees and other item in the proximity not be above a certain height as they can cause problems, the FAA mandates that some structure have red flashing light on them. These do not 100% guarantee that there will be no accidents, but it reasonably creates a standard that helps mitigate accidents. That is the issue here, could there have been a simple addition to the track that would help mitigate such a fatality from occurring. If there was then why was it not implimented?
