stupid people doing stupid things = bad things happen.
There have been plenty of things that I’ve done that could have landed me in the morgue, but thankfully it never happened. But pushing the limits and being fucking retarded are two different things. This situation sounds like the latter.
all of the illegal street races I’ve been to/participated in were conducted under very safe and controlled conditions, much unlike most of the ones you see on the internets where you have spectators just feet off the road from where two cars are blowing by at 100+ mph. If you do shit like that, you’re really asking for it.