Mishap with Drag car at a Parade

[njsteve]

I just watched some of the spectator and news video footage of this tragedy. It was a four lane public street, with a crowd estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000 peeple in the area for the event. It was like watching footage from the late 1950's and early 60's when people lined racing venues standing just inches from the speeding cars, oblivious to the obvious danger. It's just mind boggling how this part of a Cars for Kids event could have been allowed to happen in the first place.

[ANDY M]

http://wmctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6668755
Memphis TV updated story.
My hopes and prayers for all those concerned.

[kwhizz]

Sad!!! Very Sad!!!!!!!

Ken

[nuch_ss396]

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.... It was a four lane public street, with a crowd estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000 people in the area for the event. ...

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You can smell the lawsuits from here. Total idiocy ! A good
cause to be sure, but safety & intelligence have to be first.

[njsteve]

The 75th annual 24 hours of LeMans ended this morning. BTW isnt this the anniversary of the horrific 1955 Mercedes crash at Lemans when the Mercedes team car went airborne and cartwheeled through the crowd, killing 80 spectators?

[tom406]

Death toll now at 7 people, including some kids. We can rail on lawyers all we want, but this shows you can't always count on "common sense" prevailing, even among thoughtful, well intentioned people.

That said, I don't believe you can legislate around human stupidity and save everyone from themselves, either. Hopefully our system results in a reasonable balance, even if some individual cases seem unfair.

[BBIGG BLOCK 396]

Very sad situation!Very sad for the families of the loved ones that have been lost.The Driver of the car and whoever authorized the little show of HP certainly were not thinking very well!Way to easy for something to GO WRONG and it certainly did GO WRONG!My condolences to all the Families that lost loved ones and had loved ones injured in this terrible accident!

[JQ]

I don't see how someone in there right mind would even consider doing such a burnout with families lining the street. Absolutely pointless

[SOM2001SS]

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I don't see how someone in there right mind would even consider doing such a burnout with families lining the street. Absolutely pointless

[/ QUOTE ]Very very sad indeed I can't believe anyone would do something like that...especially a professional. Just a few revs of the engine (in neutral of course) should have been enough to entertain the crowd. My condolences to everyone involved in this tragedy.

[Chevy454]

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..any time you click second gear stuff can happen..

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EXACTLY...that's like a replay of the Z at SCR9 last year...if he spins out the other direction he hits a Yenko Deuce head on instead of *only* doing a 180 up onto the curb. Which is precisely why, IMO, we've seen the last exiting burnouts at a Supercar Reunion...