# California Off-Road Racing Accident: 8 Dead, 12+ Wounded **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [August 15, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117 "2010-08-15T10:58:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 10:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/1 "2010-08-15T10:58:37Z")
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](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. :sad: ---
**Author:** ![Tacoboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2acd7d/32.png) [@Tacoboy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tacoboy)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/2 "2010-08-15T11:15:08Z")
Darwin strikes again. ---
**Author:** ![Mike93](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mike93/32/7325_2.png) [@Mike93](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Mike93)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 11:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/3 "2010-08-15T11:33:56Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultradriver10000](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ultradriver10000/32/7397_2.png) [@ultradriver10000](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ultradriver10000)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2010, 11:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/4 "2010-08-15T11:39:58Z")
> [@Mike93](#): > > 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 ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/5 "2010-08-17T06:46:05Z")
:tup: No charges to be filled against the driver. [http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/16/california.racing.deaths/index.html?hpt=T2](http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/16/california.racing.deaths/index.html?hpt=T2) Any other videos surface yet? ---
**Author:** ![Geoff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geoff/32/6104_2.png) [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/6 "2010-08-17T06:47:56Z")
> **[This Is The California 200 Victim Who Saved His Daughter's Life](https://jalopnik.com/5614018/this-is-the-california-200-victim-who-saved-his-daughters-life?skyline=true&s=i)** > > Andrew Therrien was one of the first spectators killed by an off-road truck during Saturday's California 200 disaster, but before he died the single father pushed three people to safety, including his 3-year old daughter. 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. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 6:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/7 "2010-08-17T06:58:41Z")
> [@Geoff](#): > > This could have been any of us at any similar racing event. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Geoff](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/geoff/32/6104_2.png) [@Geoff](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Geoff)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/8 "2010-08-17T07:02:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/9 "2010-08-17T07:54:32Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/10 "2010-08-17T08:30:30Z")
> [@Geoff](#): > > the entire crowd looked to be within the recommended 100’ buffer zone. I don’t know man… did you watch the video I posted? There was even a guy yelling “get off the track!” ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/11 "2010-08-17T08:32:40Z")
People were bragging about touching the trucks as they flew by. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:35am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/12 "2010-08-17T08:35:00Z")
> [@Onyx Z32](#): > > I don’t know man… did you watch the video I posted? There was even a guy yelling “get off the track!” [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/3X/8/c/8c7207fec4de2af172a3477aba85f0a1fcc6b323.jpeg "Follow Up, 8 Killed in Off Road Truck Race Crash, Additional Footage, NOT SPAM") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CGgsJrxdn8) That’s not 100 feet. It’s not even 10 feet. And right at a jump no less. ---
**Author:** ![bracketracer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bracketracer/32/15592_2.png) [@bracketracer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bracketracer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/13 "2010-08-17T08:37:12Z")
Gruppe B all over again. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/14 "2010-08-17T08:39:16Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![bracketracer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bracketracer/32/15592_2.png) [@bracketracer](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bracketracer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/15 "2010-08-17T08:54:42Z")
No worries. It’s all going back together well. ---
**Author:** ![MPD47](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mpd47/32/7383_2.png) [@MPD47](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MPD47)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/16 "2010-08-17T09:58:03Z")
> [@bracketracer](#): > > Gruppe B all over again. 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. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 10:40am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/17 "2010-08-17T10:40:18Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![MP\_B240](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/mp_b240/32/5697_2.png) [@MP\_B240](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MP_B240)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/18 "2010-08-17T10:56:19Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/19 "2010-08-17T11:31:03Z")
It reminds me of when I was a young boy at Le Mans and 83 people were killed… > **[1955 Le Mans disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster)** > > The 1955 Le Mans disaster occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France, on 11 June 1955, when a major crash caused large fragments of debris to fly into the crowd. Eighty-three spectators and French driver Pierre Bouillin, who raced under the name Pierre Levegh, were killed, and nearly 180 more sustained injuries in the most catastrophic accident in motorsport history, which led Mercedes-Benz to retire from motor racing until 1989. > To reach his p... ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 11:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117/20 "2010-08-17T11:52:37Z")
> [@Blue Eyed Devil](#): > > It reminds me of when I was a young boy at Le Mans and 83 people were killed… > > [1955 Le Mans disaster - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster) Well i’ll be damned if you didn’t just date the hell out of yourself right here. [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/california-off-road-racing-accident-8-dead-12-wounded/159117.md?page=2)