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CBT
06-04-2007, 08:33 PM
Camaro loses it and hits crowd at town fair.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=559a3f3c-1a1c-480b-83e5-837ccd6671ea&f=06/64&fg=email (http://video.msn.com/v/us/v.htm?g=559a3f3c-1a1c-480b-83e5-837ccd6671ea&f=06/64&fg=email)
Blue03
06-04-2007, 08:51 PM
Yikes! :eek: I hope everyone survived and will recover...
DEFYANT
06-04-2007, 09:04 PM
....and that is why the Private Track meets were (rightly) shut down.
Mike Poore
06-05-2007, 05:58 AM
....and that is why the Private Track meets were (rightly) shut down.

Charlie, there a couple of DAMN fools running a run-whut-you-brung at the old air strip at Gettysburg. They just drive up off US 30, pay the guy and line 'em up. No insurance, no inspection, no rules, no nuthin. It's mostly ricers, but since it's a pinks type of operation, there's some very fast cars showing up, many of them hardly highway legal.

Barb & I got into a mini-convoy of rice headed for there, and doing crazy stuff, last summer, on our way to the carpet store across the highway. The store owner was outraged at the goings on. Hopefully it's shut down, by now, but I'm not sure.
Blackened300a
06-05-2007, 06:09 AM
....and that is why the Private Track meets were (rightly) shut down.

Actually, I think our little track meet was a bit safer (but not too much), We didnt have spectators within the first 1/8 mile of our private track and the spectators we did have, were farther away from the action then these people.
This looks like the same type of people that sit in the very first row of a demolition derby.
knine
06-05-2007, 06:12 AM
I wonder why the "safety tape" failed?
SC Cheesehead
06-05-2007, 06:51 AM
I wonder why the "safety tape" failed?

RCFA: Root Cause Failure Analysis, good place to start!

SCCH
Blackened300a
06-05-2007, 07:12 AM
I wonder why the "safety tape" failed?

:lol::lol:

I guess it wasnt followed up by the ever reliable "bale of hay"
RoyLPita
06-05-2007, 04:38 PM
I read in the Post Gazette that the 11 year old boy that was injured there was taken to Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh.
CBT
06-05-2007, 06:16 PM
I hope everyone is okay. I'm sure the driver is devastated by what he did.
larryo340
06-05-2007, 07:26 PM
The most important thing is that all spectators involved will survive with no physical disabilities. I'm praying for the 11 year old and his parents.


On a side note:
Maybe the Camaro driver had his "supercharger bypass valve" disconnected and could not handle the extreme instant power ;)
mrjones
06-06-2007, 10:14 AM
Looked like a really poor driving job. Guy should've gotten out of it when he started getting out of shape.
Blackened300a
06-06-2007, 07:33 PM
On a side note:
Maybe the Camaro driver had his "supercharger bypass valve" disconnected and could not handle the extreme instant power ;)

Indeed, maybe you can throw in a awful cliche line to explain what the power feels like ;)
knine
06-07-2007, 07:50 AM
Maybe the Camaro driver had his "supercharger bypass valve" disconnected and could not handle the extreme instant power ;)
:lol::lol:
Bluerauder
06-07-2007, 07:59 AM
Looked like a really poor driving job. Guy should've gotten out of it when he started getting out of shape.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Looks like he laid on it thinking he could straighten it out. He was wrong.

Too bad this happened. :( The organizers didn't think this through very well as far a safety distances and positions. Hope all the injured don't suffer any permanent injuries ... especially the young boy and pregnant woman.