This made national news today. It’s a horrible incident but a reminder not to get too close to the action.
CNN has this video and it seems like people were standing WAY too close: http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/08/15/california.road.race.cnn
My brother in law was pitting at the race last night and said that the spectators involved in the incident where in an area deemed off limits to spectators but as in most off road races these signs and fences where ignored.
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Darwin strikes again.
I’m be pretty pissed as a driver if I hit and killed people like that…nice way to live the rest of your life with that shit in your mind.
+1
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No charges to be filled against the driver.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/16/california.racing.deaths/index.html?hpt=T2
Any other videos surface yet?
This dude pushed his daughter out of the way before he was struck. Sad.
Look at the ages of the victims, all mid-low twenties. This could have been any of us at any similar racing event. I bet it’s easy to get a bit too comfortable with the proximity of those trucks whipping by.
Speak for yourself man. No way in hell I’d be anywhere near that close to racing vehicles, especially ones racing off road and never in a million years with my 3 year old daughter. Sucks the kid will grow up without her dad but at least she didn’t die after he put them both at such a risk.
I dunno, as much as I’d like to think I personally wouldn’t be on top of the track (especially on the outside of a turn or near a jump), the entire crowd looked to be within the recommended 100’ buffer zone. And at the speed those things are going, the inertia from a miscue or rollover would still easily send those things 100’ off course.
Just sayin’ it was probably easy for mob mentality to make it a bit easier to be complacent with how close they were standing. Darwin for sure, but still… I’ve definitely got empathy for the victims.
At STPR I usually find a large tree to stand behind. In desert like conditions you have nothing to protect you, pretty crazy.
I heard people were throwing rocks at the driver like it was his fault they were standing there.
I don’t know man… did you watch the video I posted? There was even a guy yelling “get off the track!”
People were bragging about touching the trucks as they flew by.
That’s not 100 feet. It’s not even 10 feet. And right at a jump no less.
Gruppe B all over again.
I was going to say this reminds me of an old Audi video tape I have from the 80s.
PS Get to work Jason! LOL
No worries. It’s all going back together well.
Funny, when I got sent this that’s EXACTLY what I thought and linked my buddy to the old onboard of Rohl ripping through the crowd.
I love the ignorant comments about how they need more barricades to keep people back. These aren’t restricted access races like NASCAR where the track is a little oval surrounded by fences, gates and security all for the purpose of charging for and controlling admission. It’s a race down a trail in the middle of the desert where any asshole can just walk up and observe.
Knowing how politics works I worry how much knee jerk fallout there will be over this with new “spectator safety precautions”. It wouldn’t surprise me if by next year you need to basically build a stadium just to have a sanctioned rally event in the woods.
i assume that after group B people would understand how dangerous it gets. i guess people also get a little too excited and really wanna get in there and see the action.
It reminds me of when I was a young boy at Le Mans and 83 people were killed…
Well i’ll be damned if you didn’t just date the hell out of yourself right here.