Taken from a RRW press release:

The tragic irony of his accident should not be lost on any of us: that his team owner, the man who pro-actively championed the cause of rider safety with the creation of the Roadracing World Action Fund to buy and provide air fence for the nation’s racetracks, should have one of his team’s riders fall victim to barrier of Armco fronted by a single stack of old, hard, car tires.