Thanks for sharing your perspective and no need for an apology, you guys got caught up in it as well so sorry to hear about your car. Driver was fine and the truck will survive, but given where it happened and where the truck ended up, it could have certainly been much worse. From our perspective, we are just trying to piece together the chain of events so that we can figure out what, if anything, we can do differently.
I agree with you on flag etiquette and ensuring we keep the safety crews safe while they are out there. The last thing we need is for one of those guys / gals to get injured and I seriously doubt that anybody's race is going to come down to whether or not they chose to race near a working safety crew so why risk it...
Hopefully, someone out there has some video or saw what triggered this incident.