Yeah but Grant you're missing the point. All of those safety precautions are absolutely the organisers responsibility. Yeah he could have said no if he'd thought it unsafe, but the organisers are 100% at fault imo because they failed to even put up a proper barrier. If i'm not mistaken, there was no such barrier or even fence... People were basically just standing on the side of the road.
Signed, because of the organisers receiving minimal blame and consequences.