Maria Parker’s RAAM finish as the top women rider has become even more astonishing. Here is her husband’s report about the 65 mph woman, distracted by her cell phone, that crushed into Maria’s slow moving follow-vehicle in Arizona. Besides losing three crew members, ending up with a bleeding son in need of careful observation less he have brain trauma and having to sort through twisted metal and broken glass and plastic to  salvage usable bike parts, clothing and other gear at an Indian reservation junkyard, Maria almost lost her one remaining bike later that day when a crew member drove it into a garage overhang. This almost reads like fiction: