Must have been fully automatic cardboard.
This repeated crap about just hitting the sign is false.
I repeatedly watched the video from the camera angle viewing the sign face-on with the riders oncoming...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld1oakfq6xw
You can see clearly at the :01 mark, the woman’s got her arm behind the sign, with her hand holding the bottom edge way out in the roadway. Tony Martin didn’t fall because he hit the sign; he went down because he hit her arm, which I’m surprised isn’t broken. Watch HER as the crash happens. Her arm gets flung back across her body, she gets spun around, her hat flies off...
It wasn’t her wimpy cardboard sign that caused the carnage.
Not EVEN.
At the :02 second mark, you see Martin grimace as he impacts her arm, his handlebars twist to the right, throwing his entire bike off-line, his front tire slips off the pavement edge into the grass on the verge, he loses traction, and the bike goes down beneath him initiating a chain reaction that takes down an entire wedge of the peloton, which is in the video at about the 3:30 mark.
She oughta see jail time and/or hefty fines for Reckless Endangerment or some such similar charge.
Assault cardboard..