Sign carrier who caused Tour de France pileup fined 1,200 euros

A Tour de France spectator who caused a rider pileup successful June volition person to wage a 1,200 euro good ($1,350).

The 31-year-old woman, who has not been identified, stepped onto the way holding a motion earlier TV cameras saluting her grandparents with her backmost facing the incoming cyclists. German rider Tony Martin bumped her and fell, causing a chain-reaction clang of different riders 28 miles from the extremity of the archetypal stage, betwixt Brest and Landerneau, successful northwestern France.

Two riders exited the contention arsenic a effect of the accident, and different 8 were injured, according to the BBC. The pistillate fled the chaotic scene, prompting a search. She yet turned herself successful and was arrested June 30.

In summation to paying the $1,350 fine, a transgression tribunal successful Brest connected Thursday ordered her to wage a symbolic 1 euro good to the relation of French nonrecreational cyclists, a plaintiff successful the case.

The charges of causing unintentional injuries and endangering lives could transportation steeper penalties. But authoritative Solenn Briand said the pistillate recognized “how dangerous” her behaviour had been and expressed remorse, according to Agence France-Presse. She told the tribunal successful October she was ashamed astatine her “stupidity.”

“She did thing daft. She’s nary terrorist,” manager of the Tour, Christian Prudhomme, told reporters successful October, according to the AFP.

“We conscionable privation radical to instrumentality attraction erstwhile they travel to the Tour and retrieve they are determination to spot the champions and not to get connected television,” Prudhomme said.