Tragedy averted: US 5k runners in NY today almost got wiped out by a bus that drove onto the course (video)

Thankfully, Sandra Bullock wasn't driving the bus.

I watched it live and bus was not going fast and it did brake just before nearly striking the peleton of elite runners. One of them slapped the front of the bus. Obviously the driver did not get the memo.

I was thinking the same thing. The race organizers should have put a few people there to stop traffic. Thank God no one got killed or injured.

If you look at the course map, it is a very simple course to control. The last 1.25 miles are in Central Park so only about 1.85 need to be blocked. It is only two streets, 42nd street for one mile, turn right on 6th Avenue and go straight about a mile into the Park. Too easy.

Emblematic of the global decline of western civilisation. Such mistakes were unheard of in the past.

Meh.. I see this every week in NYC

At the 8.5 second mark, you can briefly see a person wearing something red that is standing on the far side of road on the crosswalk looking towards the bus. That was probably the course monitor whose job it was to stop traffic as the runners approached.

Look a genius comedian has arrived

spoken like a true developmentally disabled Ivy League Elitist. Your first thought about what if a bus had killed a dozen of US’s top male distance runners: “As who is at fault as for a lawsuit as who would get paid?”

Exactly. Rojo has problems

Yes, thank you

I see him. He does nothing. Had the bus been 1 second earlier, race would have been a mess. There are 2 busses and these guys are running 13 MPH.

The Republicans

Right at the end of the video there's what looks like a Course Monitor in a red or orange vest, but they're just kind of standing there.

Or maybe in our evermore busy World non-runners no longer care about our running culture's desperate Hail Mary for attention with big city races, half marathon and marathons? Maybe they even no longer hold back how irritating it can be FOR THEM?

"I had to take a detour because you effing runners had blocked up half the city" a single mother from a neighbouring city told me last year when she came late for work (and I hadn't even been in that race!)

You don't see hockey teams or fotball teams blocking off entire big parking lots to stage outdoor matches and forcing away the normal traffic while doing so.

I watched this and just assumed that the motorcycles were cops.
… But no, just regular civilians as far as I can tell. That is a huge failure on NYRR. Also, I’m a little surprised New York City would allow them to run without full police support/lead.
… The way it was set up, it’s a surprise that more than one bus didn’t cross their paths, or that of the women’s race. It looks like the bus had no warning that a race was coming through a red light.

Typical Americans

You know as well as everyone that what "streak" wrote is absolutely true. The NYRR totally love to high horse about about any 'social justice' topic to remind you they are superior. The NYRR CEO and employees care a lot more about sitting on high horses than making sure you don't get hit by a bus.