another story regarding this (don't know who the author is):
> Ok gang, let me give a little background info on this clip. This accident
> happened last year during our annual Corvette Caravan to the Corvette Museum
> in Bowling Green Kentucky. An autocross course was setup on a small section
> of parking lot at the Corvette assembly plant by a few of the local Corvette
> clubs. This was a Saturday and Sunday event. And I had every intentions of
> running both days since they said we would probably be able to get 6 or more
> runs in each day. I actually ran the course on Saturday. This accident
> happened on Sunday.
> After walking the course I could clearly tell that the course they set up
> was to large for the lot space and set too close to the curbs. It was easy
> to see that a novice could get into trouble rather easily. I made two runs
> on the course and decided that I wanted no part of this particular
> autocross. There were three main reasons. One, was that a few of the course
> workers were sitting down at their stations! The second was that the
> sweeping turn before the slalom had a patch of oil that couldn't be avoided
> the way they had the course set up. No amount of kitty litter (or whatever
> it is they used) seem to clean it up. Every time I came through that turn I
> would get squirrelly going into the slalom and have to slow down to keep
> from losing control (oil on my tires?). The third was that the slalom was
> setup parallel to the curb and maybe a car length and a half away from the
> curb. The blue vette in the clip lost control midway through this slalom
> section, jumped the curb and hit the worker who, according to spectators I
> had asked that witnessed it first hand, had been sitting in his folding
> chair and was trying to get up and out of the way when he got hit.
> Anyway, I decided to go and a least watch the Sunday autocross before I left
> to come home and I must have arrived at the site maybe a minute or two after
> the incident and a few minutes before the paramedics arrived. The worker was
> unconscious but still breathing. From the video it looks as though he was
> already standing but I think if you look closely you will see what I think
> is a red folding chair go flying in the air. Still no real sure if he was
> actually sitting, I can only go by what I was told by a few people at the
> site.
Some notes:
1) dunno if i believe the oil bit
2) it IS a chair that goes flying with the worker...once you know what it
is, there's no question.
Karl
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