Originally Posted by carleton

Damn. That sucks. You can see the incident at the 7:12 mark in the video above.

Basically, Croom had completed his exchange and was heading up above the stayer's line, but he failed to check to see if anyone was up there already moving faster than him and rode right into the path of a relief rider who was properly riding above the blue line. That brush took out Croom's bars and he wend down instantly. The other rider stayed up. Seemed like a slight lapse of concentration. I recall something similar happened at DLV a couple of years ago during a race where Croom went up track and took someone with him. That person wrecked and broke a collar bone.