Spectacular Car Crashes

[Chevy454]

From Vegas last weekend:

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[Dicky]

Rob, I'm glad to see those &quot;kill switches&quot; NHRA requires us to have worked so well for that guy. That would have been my first move as a Safety guy. Looks like it finally ran out of fuel &amp; rubber....
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[Chevy454]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dicky</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Rob, I'm glad to see those &quot;kill switches&quot; NHRA requires us to have worked so well for that guy. That would have been my first move as a Safety guy. Looks like it finally ran out of fuel &amp; rubber....
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I guess a track official tried getting to the kill switch early on but got hit in the head with shrapnel from the tire/wheel, so that's why it eventually ran out of fuel...

[flyingn]

was the driver holding the brake? Otherwise the car would have kept moving.. Why did he not just shut it off then? I don't get it.

[Tommy]

Steve Grissom hitting the wall at Atlanta. Thats a hard impact [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/eek.gif[/img]. Steve was tough though, he's an Alabama boy [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/biggthumpup.gif[/img]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmHcwSa0CTg


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[Chevy454]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: flyingn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">was the driver holding the brake? Otherwise the car would have kept moving.. Why did he not just shut it off then? I don't get it. </div></div>
The driver was knocked out on the initial wall hit...the throttle hung and the front end damage locked the front wheel(s) basically making it like a line lock. Last I read, there was some discussion that the throttle was possibly stuck open prior to hitting the wall and is what caused the carnage, but the driver says it's still fuzzy...

[jannes_z-28]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Chevy454</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: flyingn</div><div class="ubbcode-body">was the driver holding the brake? Otherwise the car would have kept moving.. Why did he not just shut it off then? I don't get it. </div></div>
The driver was knocked out on the initial wall hit...the throttle hung and the front end damage locked the front wheel(s) basically making it like a line lock. Last I read, there was some discussion that the throttle was possibly stuck open prior to hitting the wall and is what caused the carnage, but the driver says it's still fuzzy... </div></div>

If you check the time on the video it takes over 60 seconds for the safety crew to arrive. That is way to long.

With todays electronic widgets it would be pretty easy to have sensors that detect a hit on the car and instantly shuts everything off.

Jan

[Mayhem]

Damn!