Sometimes there's really no end to just how badly wrong things can turn in an instant. As race crashes go, this spill looked pretty scary.
Anyone who's been watching pro cycling closely during the past season will have begun to hear the name Tao Geoghegan Hart in dispatches.
In his first year out of the juniors, the British teenager has been riding with the Bissell Trek team in the US and also the all-conquering Team GB national squad in Europe.
He rode the recent Tour of Britain with Team GB and finished an amazing 15th overall; a massive achievement for a teenager who was riding junior races this time last year.
On the penultimate day, and after a stage of climbing in southern England featuring a couple of late cat 1 climbs into Brighton, the young Londoner found himself in the very small select group containing the race favourites.
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With three riders up the road from the early escape, Geoghegan Hart jumped hard from the group he was in just before the last corner, clearly intent on gaining a gap and holding it to the line for 4th place.
However, far from being the straightforward left hander he expected, the turn was almost a hairpin; with the lad from Hackney completely overcooking it and paying the price.
Tough as nails, he got back on his bike to finish the stage and start the following day. And he's since been named on the U23 British team for the World Championships next week.
A lot of footage of the spectacular smash has emerged; you'll find three clips below. This has to rank as the most spectacular crash of the year that we've see.
Remember the name; you'll be hearing a lot more about this kid.
1. From across the street
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2. The footage shown live on TV
3. From inside the crowd
Geoghegan Hart took to twitter and apologised after the spill, saying he felt he had put the riders behind him in danger by getting the bend so wrong. However, this TV still shows just how unusual the bend was; with the riders almost turning back on themselves. Geoghegan Hart is the speck on the left, just making contact with the sponsors blue sign on the crowd control barrier.
Riding the junior time trial at the World Championships in Valkenburg two years ago as a first year junior; he'll be competing for the U23 crown next week in his first year as an espoir (Photo: Sirotti)
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