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Dave Seitz · Mega Poster

My moms neighbor accident

Lost in the 60s · President

OUCH......I would've crawled over and punched the idiots lights out.

gearlube · Active Member

Wholly crap! I hope he got a settlement...

Robredy · Member

That is really something. Looks like the loop of the ski hit him in the leg. That is one tough man. Looks like somebody was looking out for him though. If the bulk of the sled would have hit him in the torso. Would of had a different outcome.

Derek69SS · Founding Member

Wow, brutal... but why do they have people so close to the track?

Dave Seitz · Mega Poster

Derek69SS wrote:
Wow, brutal... but why do they have people so close to the track?

He was a volunteer at the event, and that was where they stationed him from what I was told. It is great to get a front row seat to an event as a worker but you do need to look at everything that it encompasses.

I watched a video of amature dirt bikers racing through the woods and where the workers get stationed is even worse. This was a video of my kids Scout Leaders' kid racing. The youngest one hit a tree root so big so hard it launched him over the bike. Kid gets back on the bike hauls ass laps the field and breaks down on the last lap. He still got second place out of the race after all that.

jim larson · 2K+ Club

11 people killed and around 500 injured while attending those air races out in Reno this summer. These were spectators in a grandstand area.

Derek69SS · Founding Member

As an autocrosser, I've been stationed around a "hot" race course many times... we don't stand right next to the cones.

The Reno air-race deal is a whole different scenario... there is no predictable "run off" area for that type of accident. Unfortunate for sure, but nothing that could have been forseen and prevented by anyone.

jim larson · 2K+ Club

Derek69SS wrote:
As an autocrosser, I've been stationed around a "hot" race course many times... we don't stand right next to the cones.

The Reno air-race deal is a whole different scenario... there is no predictable "run off" area for that type of accident. Unfortunate for sure, but nothing that could have been forseen and prevented by anyone.

The plane lost an aleron, thus no control of the plane. Same type of thing can happen to a car or any other type of motorized object.

SShink · 3K+ Club

Anybody watch 'The Dumbest Things on Wheels' tv show? It was on in the restaurant in Fridley after we moved cars for our car show in Aug., and most of us couldn't keep our eyes off the TV.

I've caught it a couple of times since, and it's amazing why people don't think 'what happens if...'?

Chris R · 2K+ Club

Thats crazy. What else is crazy is all the fans of rally racing that are also sitting right along the sides of the track over in Europe.

Lost in the 60s · President

jim larson wrote:
Derek69SS wrote:
As an autocrosser, I've been stationed around a "hot" race course many times... we don't stand right next to the cones.

The Reno air-race deal is a whole different scenario... there is no predictable "run off" area for that type of accident. Unfortunate for sure, but nothing that could have been forseen and prevented by anyone.
The plane lost an aleron, thus no control of the plane. Same type of thing can happen to a car or any other type of motorized object.
I watched a couple videos of that crash and he was already so low that once the plane dived, he had no time to try to pull it up. It went straight down into the spectators. Like you say Jim, freak failures can happen to any vehicle without warning.
Do a YouTube search for European road rally crashes sometime. It's unbelievable where people will stand in relation to a hard curve or jump and many of them get run over when the cars crash. ..