Sorry, but my macabre sense of humor finds this hilarious:
He didn’t really get the concept of going around the gates.
I don’t think he had time! He may have had a visor that precluded noticing the descending barrier. The way he lays still tells me road rash was the least of his worries. Not good.
He looked pretty stiff, post-impact. And it also looked as though he was avoiding something else, real or imagined, since he crossed the center line.