cars for kids southern style/Selmer Tn

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This wasn't even under 'controlled' conditions.

They let a friggin Promod do a burnout on a city street lined with people!

No barricades, no nothin but a white line.

 

Unfortunately, I'm sure they will be.

 

Man that sucks... I hate when people get hurt/killed and especially at an event that is supposed to be a fund raiser

 

Man, bad things happen at good times.. I will keep them all in my prayers

 

I am very sad that this has happened. I have long been against activities like burnouts done in a fashion as this. Maybe the only good thing to come out of will be the end of burnout contests. Lets keep race cars on the race track where they belong.
Dan

 

I completely agree......I am a BIG fan of big burnouts when there are camera's around and its in the right enviroment.
Thoughts and prayers go out to everyone that was there.

 

now I am even more pissed!!!!!!!!

click on the launch if you have a soft heart, you might want to pass.

This is total and absolute disregard for the safety of everyone at that event.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19267840/?GT1=10056

 

You are right...this guys career is over...not to mention whoever allowed it to happen.

 

This incident reminds me of an event that happened in my backyard in 1967. I was 9-years old, but I remember it like yesterday. That incident in Selmer hurts me and the fact it brought back a horrific childhood memory, makes it hurt even more. Here's the incident from 1967...

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Swiss, Helv] Houston Platt Funny Car Crash (1967)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Swiss, Helv] Yellow River (Georgia) Drag Strip[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Swiss, Helv]While the details of the loss of control and subsequent crash of veteran southern Factory Experimental/Funny Car racer Houston Platt's "Dixie Twister" Cheverolet at the backwoods, unsanctioned, uninsured racetrack in Georgia are a moot point 27 years later, the undeniable damage beyond the eleven spectator fatalities incurred at the site will be a focal point in drag racing history discussions for decades to come.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Swiss, Helv]The small dragstrip featured dirt banks on either side of the track, atop which cyclone fences were the only barriers between the vehicles ontrack and the spectators slightly beyond. When Platt's car crashed through the fence and slowed only when it began tumbling through the crowd, it sparked one of the most debilitating rampages by traditional media in the sport's history. Drag racing was still sufering from phenomenally poor publicity in 1967, and the front page headlines of "11 Dead at Drag Race" literally doomed the sport for years.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Swiss, Helv]The sad fact was that, in 1967, Yellow River Drag Strip was a classically typical drag racing facility. Only a handful of racetracks featured safety standards beyond the then-extravagant single guardrail lining at least one side of the course, and few offered efficient crowd control. While other tragedies had occurred on a local level in the sport's past, few were of the magnitude of Yellow River, and none had ever received national publicity.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana, Swiss, Helv]In fact, it was almost a decade later that truly important safety specifications, mandated by both insurers and sanctioning bodies, would make "local" racetracks as safe as the few national event facilities then in existence. Yellow River was one of drag racing's greatest disasters, but it was an unequalled embarrassment in the fact that the sport changed so little over the next few years, despite the desperate and ongoing attempts by the National and American Hot Rod Associations.
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Dang ... that dude was flying! What an idiot ... Every burnout contest I ever seen the car had to stay stationary ... that is 7 counts of vehicular homicide without a doubt ... He was going so fast there would be absolutely no way to even get out of the way ..

 

that was my first thought, that he was holding the line lock and something happened. Then when I watched the video, I could not believe he was doing a running burnout. I would estimate atleast 85-100 mph.

 

I agree.

 

unbelieveable

yeah id say near 100mph

 

I don't think it was a 'burnout contest'...
The news says it was more or less a parade, and that the burnout was put on as an 'exhibition'.

I would like clarification on that point.
A burnout contest or exhibition, either one, don't belong on a public road.

I love the burnout contests that they do at the track.
I think someone pointed out though that those are barricaded and chock blocked on the strip itself.