6 year old boy dies at the Monster truck jam

[Railbird]

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<!-- end .related-media -->TACOMA, Wash. – Debris flew into the grandstands at a monster truck show in Washington state, killing a 6-year-old boy and injuring another spectator, witnesses and fire officials said Saturday.
A red truck came apart while doing doughnuts during the freestyle competition of Friday night's Monster Jam show, the witnesses said. Debris flew 30 to 50 feet over a safety barrier into the stands.
"Parts were falling off and a piece flew up and hit a little boy," Christine Moe told King Television of Seattle.

 

[Railbird]

Sad story.

On a side note I dont know how people go for this monster jam stuff, sold out Anaheim stadium last week. Like watching paint dry imo.

Side note #2, motor sports are dangerous, not the first or last spectator that will die from flying debris at a motor sports event.

 

[MikRetSam]

thats really fucked up,,,,,,, my heart goes out to their family....... i have two children and i cant even imagine something like this happening............
fuckin terrible..........sigh

 

[RobFunk]

Read this earlier. The part about "The show continued after the boy and man were hurt, and many spectators left.

"They just kept going," Moe said. "We grabbed our kids and just bee-lined out of there."

Just left me with a gut wrenching feeling.

 

[tatehill2000]

ugh,,,,,,,,, no words for this one,,,

call your atty,,,,:sad3:

tater

 

[Railbird]

Side not #3

Pretty disgusting to think 60,000 morons go and watch this trash. And I was 1 of 200 watching a genius like Charlie Coles Miami O Redskins play at Pauley Pavillion a couple of months ago. Shows the true mentality of how patheitc Americans really are.

 

[arniesarmy]

Side not #3

Pretty disgusting to think 60,000 morons go and watch this trash. And I was 1 of 200 watching a genius like Charlie Coles Miami O Redskins play at Pauley Pavillion a couple of months ago. Shows the true mentality of how patheitc Americans really are.

Jesus, get off your high horse. It's like wrestling and UFC and everything else. It's entertainment. I wouldn't cross the street to see Monster Trucks, but people get into it. It's terrible that a youngster got hit, but it's a 1 in a 100,000 shot. There's probably one of your precious Little Leaguers that die when there hit by a pitch each year. It's fate. Not disgusting.

 

[rayray]

Side not #3

Pretty disgusting to think 60,000 morons go and watch this trash. And I was 1 of 200 watching a genius like Charlie Coles Miami O Redskins play at Pauley Pavillion a couple of months ago. Shows the true mentality of how patheitc Americans really are.

people grow up in all different walks of life shitbird. these things bring families together for a few hours of what they consider fun. go anywhere in the states and ask 5-12yr old boys what they would want to do, go to your fruity ass concert of go the monster truck show. people want to give kids what they want and growing boys want to go to truck shows and other shit that makes them feel older and like a man. its part of being a kid in most places. if you think its pathetic for a dad to want to make his boy happy and take his boy to this, then you dont know shit about being a parent.

some of the shit that comes out of your mouth is the absolute dumbest shit i have ever heard on any forum.

 

[Railbird]

Jesus, get off your high horse. It's like wrestling and UFC and everything else. It's entertainment. I wouldn't cross the street to see Monster Trucks, but people get into it. It's terrible that a youngster got hit, but it's a 1 in a 100,000 shot. There's probably one of your precious Little Leaguers that die when there hit by a pitch each year. It's fate. Not disgusting.

Its not fate, its called predictable. Im trying to digg a post that I said your taking your life in your hands sitting low row at a NASCAR event.

 

[Railbird]

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More fan deaths put the focus on the need for safety innovations

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<!-- ******************* END CLICKABILITY INCLUDE ****************** --><!--endclickprintexclude-->After three spectators were killed, a nine-year-old girl critically injured and eight other fans hurt during an Indy Racing League event at Lowe's Motor Speedway (nee Charlotte Motor Speedway) last Saturday night, track president H.A. Wheeler pointed out that "every once in a while, unfortunately, auto racing raises the black side of itself." Once in a while? Last Saturday's tragedy, in which a tire and other debris from a three-car collision sailed over a 15-foot-high fence and landed in a crowded grandstand, marked the second time in nine months that spectators were killed as a result of crashes of open-wheel cars.
Last July 26 three fans were killed and six injured as the result of a similar accident during CART's U.S. 500 at Michigan Speedway. Either incident without the other might have passed into memory as a grievous fluke. Together they should ignite a public outcry that doesn't dissipate until track officials devise a plan to prevent further episodes of this nature.
The surest solution is simple but unlikely to happen: The IRL and CART should stop racing open-wheel cars on high-speed oval tracks. CART, which runs 11 of its 20 races on road courses, where average race speeds are 94 mph compared with 140 on ovals, might survive in such a scenario. The IRL, which runs only on ovals, including the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, would have to rethink how it does business. At the very least the catch fences in front of the grandstands at oval tracks have to be uniformly raised to at least 25 feet high (most are now between 14 and 17 feet), and an overhang slanted toward the track should be added.
Open-wheel cars are built to disintegrate rapidly during crashes in order to dissipate energy and enhance driver safety. Trouble is, the flying debris, including loose tires that aren't contained by fenders, can be deadly to bystanders—especially those at oval layouts, where grandstands sit close to high-speed portions of the tracks. Also, on road courses, there are fewer concrete retaining walls to cause the potentially deadly breakup of cars.
In the wake of last year's Michigan tragedy, officials at Lowe's Motor Speedway banned fans from sitting in the first seven rows of its grandstands for IRL races and had fortified its 15-foot-high catch fence with steel cables. Unfortunately, the debris that caused last Saturday's deaths flew over the fence, just as it had at Michigan, where 15-foot-high fences were in place. ( Michigan's fences were raised to 17 feet after the accident.)
To the credit of Wheeler and IRL officials, the North Carolina race was stopped as soon as it was learned that fans had been seriously injured. (CART and Michigan Speedway officials were roundly criticized for allowing the U.S. 500 to continue to its finish after the deaths there.)

 

[snowtime]

you need to start to read the history of Indianapolis 500 and research the safety aspect of early days of automotive racing! It's no different than before 1950's where they didn't even have safety barrier fence that was attached to the wall and was just the wall. There alot of racing fatalities then where the cars goes over the fence and killed the few spectators along the way before the car rested on the somebody's backyard. I can imaged a little innocent little kid were playing in the backyard where the car ran over that kid back in the 20's and 30's. This is no different than stupid people standing along the open country roadside on the mountains of Europe where they usually held the auto rally and they still do this to this day.:smokingbb

 

[earl]

the family will now be rich......but that will never replace his life. very sad. RIP kid

 

[betedgeonly]

thats really fucked up,,,,,,, my heart goes out to their family....... i have two children and i cant even imagine something like this happening............
fuckin terrible..........sigh

ditto.

 

[wilheim]

Certainly some sports are more dangerous to watch than others especially before more safety precautions that have been implemented around auto racing but the truth is these days the ride from your home to the stadium is more dangerous than viewing any actual sporting event.

The young 13 year old girl killed so tragically at a Columbus Blue Jackets game in March of 2002 was the first fan to be killed at a big time hockey arena since a 1948 game at Madison Square Garden when a 47 year old woman was hit by a flying puck and killed. Hockey is a game like baseball where a very hard projectile goes racing into the crowd at least once every game.

Fatalaties at large outdoor stadiums are usually the result of fans falling off upper decks or down stairs (usually alcohol is involved). Last year a fan fell 150 feet down a stairway at Turner Field as he tried to slide down the hand railing, reports were he had been drinking, he died of a severe head injury.

I don't know of anyone killed at a basketball game or NFL game. More common than fans getting killed by objects is fans killing each other, article from 2006:

NASHUA, N.H. - After a Red Sox-Yankees argument spilled outside a bar, a Yankees fan aimed her car at a group of people to scare them and didn't brake, hitting and killing a man, authorities and witnesses said.

The Yankees fan, Ivonne Hernandez, was arraigned today on reckless second-degree murder and drunken driving charges and was held without bail. She did not enter a plea.

Hernandez, 43, was speeding early Friday toward a small group that included the man, Matthew Beaudoin, 29, and never hit her brakes, a prosecutor said today.

"She accelerated at a high speed for about 200 feet. She went directly at this group of people," prosecutor Susan Morrell said. "She indicated to police that she wanted to scare this group of people. She thought they would get out of the way."

Beaudoin died of massive head trauma at a hospital, Morrell said.

Hernandez, of Nashua, was arrested at the scene. She said she had been drinking and refused to take a breath-alcohol test, said Morrell. Hernandez said she had been in an argument with the group.

Hernandez's public defender, James Quay, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Authorities won't describe the argument, but witnesses said it heated up when Hernandez identified herself as a New York Yankees fan. Like the rest of New Hampshire, Nashua, 45 miles northwest of Boston, is Red Sox country.

Bartender Tanya Moran said the argument spilled outside, and at least one person in a group that included Beaudoin began chanting against the Yankees when they saw a Yankees sticker on Hernandez's car.

Hernandez allegedly gunned her car and struck Beaudoin and Maria Hughes, 21. Hughes had only minor injuries, which Beaudoin's sister Faith said was because her brother shielded Hughes, a friend.

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Football (soccer) in Europe and South America is rife with stories of fans killing each other over the decades..

Bottom line is there is nothing more tragic than an innocent 6 year child suddenly having his or her life snuffed out at a recreational event while just sitting and watching.


Whan any child dies it is extremely sad and more so when they are killed by an avoidable accident such as flying debris from a monster truck.

I very much hope this surely innocent child will RIP.


wil.

 

[docslep]

my boy is crazy about motorsports. we went to the daytona 500 for his 13th birthday, and it was the dream of a lifetime, something that our family will never forget. we sat low on the backstretch, and never for a moment did i feel it was dangerous. i was probably naive. why not build a screen around the lower seats, like they have in the nhl? or restrict seating in the lower seats? i think a kid had to die in an nhl game to make this change, but its gotta be safer now, right?:sad3:

 

[BronxCheer+]

very sad news!! RIP!!

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Side not #3

Pretty disgusting to think 60,000 morons go and watch this trash. And I was 1 of 200 watching a genius like Charlie Coles Miami O Redskins play at Pauley Pavillion a couple of months ago. Shows the true mentality of how patheitc Americans really are.

You are the pathetic one Rail....now go away and hawk some more tickets...

 

[BillyWaltersJr+]

Side not #3

Pretty disgusting to think 60,000 morons go and watch this trash. And I was 1 of 200 watching a genius like Charlie Coles Miami O Redskins play at Pauley Pavillion a couple of months ago. Shows the true mentality of how patheitc Americans really are.

Have you ever watched a hockey game? People have died from a push going through the glass, shattering it, or sailing over the glass and hitting someone in the head.

It's a risk you take to be able to watch the entertainment.

Just because you don't like motor sports doesn't mean you get to say its trash, only morons go to watch it, etc. I'm not talking about monster trucks, but motor sports in general. And just because some Americans like to watch motor sports doesn't make them "pathetic".

Seriously... hno:

 

[BillyWaltersJr+]

Sad story.

On a side note I dont know how people go for this monster jam stuff, sold out Anaheim stadium last week. Like watching paint dry imo.

Side note #2, motor sports are dangerous, not the first or last spectator that will die from flying debris at a motor sports event.

I don't think that show was sold out here. They have a three day thing that is at the Tacoma Dome (a piece of shit arena, btw), so I can't imagine they sell out all the shows.

In regards to your "side note #2"...sure, motor sports either watching or actually participating can be dangerous but its a risk you take. The percentage of spectators who get hurt or killed watching races in VERY small..on any given weekend there are literally HUNDREDS of races at local dirt tracks, oval tracks, drag strips, etc .. and 99.9% of the time no one ends up injured. It was a freak accident and anytime someone gets injured at a race it usually is.

 

[MikeB]

Maybe someday I too can aspire to viewing just the finer things in life like Rail does. It is clear that with his vast wisdom and being beyond his years in knowledge, I should be asking him in a thread for all to see, what is suitable.

One day, I will not have to log into the RX and see what Railbird feels is worthy of others to choose for entertainment.


Until then, if my child wants to go to a sporting event that my child will get entertainment from, then I will continue to take my child to these sporting events.