There are dozens of videos on the internet showing crashes at drag strips with armco-style guardrails. Sometimes the guardrails keep the cars contained to the strip, but most times, like in this video, the guardrails collapse and act as a launch ramp for out of control cars. Even scarier is the fact that this crash could have been so much worse if both cars got into one another and took flight.
Look at where the car lands. It is well beyond the fence line and apparently into some parked vehicles. We’ve not found any reports of injured spectators, which is a miracle.
Press play…then duck and cover!
Yeah, that one was scary. Glad he walked away, and glad that the reports indicate no other injuries.
There didn’t seem to be any sort of safety crew attendance – I mean, lots of people ran up to it, but no emergency vehicles, no fire extinguishers that I could see – and the car was completely surrounded by people, most of them spectators by the looks – i’d hate to see it catch fire or blow up under those circumstances (and there were flames initially by the looks too..)
Yeah, I got this sweet parking space over near the fence…
Maybe they’ll replace the bent up Armco with Jersey Barriers.