Camaro crashes in street race.
 

What a waste.:(

Camaro crash story

Wow, had his kid in the car. Obviously no seat belt. Let somebody he didn't know "pressure" him into it. Was the guy 44 or 15?

I am sure he had no intention of racing... my arse!

He had his kid along to the event but not in the car for the race...thank God.

The young fella won a drawing for a remote control Bumblebee Transformer Camaro we offered up at a show once so as it turns out I have met the individuals at an event in 2011.

Obviously no cage in that car. Probably had stock seat belts. What a shame. Thank God he was smart enough to have his kid watch instead of ride along but I can't imagine how traumatic it would be to see your dad wreck a car in such spectacular fashion.

The other car pulled the wheels off the line, not your average street racer.

I went back and looked at some past event pictures and it does have at least a 4 point cage in 2011. It would be interesting to get a closer look post crash to see if the cage failed, if it had installation issues etc...

I think I made out race seats too, but the glare was such I couldn't tell. They aren't stock because they are highback. Kinda looked like those Jaz racing seats you see.

I think the car was capable of passing tech for drag racing as it had slicks on it in 2011 too. So it must have had adequate belts but that doesn't help when you aren't wearing them.:(

I don't think he fastened the seat belt and his injuries are from bouncing around in the car and partially or completely being ejected. There are several versions of the story floating around, but no seat belt is a common rumor locally.

It is also rumored that it was the first time he made a nitrous pass in that car.

Really sad chain of events.

Randy

You might want to post this video in the street cars with rollcages thread.

Granted you can't plan for Stupid, but even if he had a seat belt on it must not have been very tight or properly attached.

So if you follow the story, He didn't want to race a wheel standing g-body and put on his seat belt only half way or not at all in a car with slicks and nitrous. But he was "pressured' into racing, He did not want to.

I think the only reason he did not want to race was because he knew the competitor was going to beat him. And he was a rookie, you can tell by how crooked his wheels were on the launch.

The truly fast guys go to the race track for just this reason. What is that car would have spun the other way? Would have gotten 2 cars.

You got it.

They never saw anyone get hurt before and now thy plan to sell their cars. YEAH RIGHT. I've heard that before.

This story is 99% about being stupid and 1% about roll cages IMO.

True - but you can't fix stupid.

Absolutely. Unfortunately for the driver of this Camaro, Darwinism took over.

Nothing like this has ever happened before in the history of the world.

or the internet!!!!!

thought you'd like this one Todd,

On a related note, I thought the latest Car Craft piece on street racing in LA was done in very poor taste. To sensationalize and give press to the street racing scene is irresponsible at best and downright dangerous at worst. I don't care how many times I read in there that the magazine doesn't condone street racing.

He just ran out of talent. :unibrow:

First Gaetano, now you? Run out of your own original lines already? :lol:

Another angle

Exactly... moral of the story, it only takes one second of stupidity.

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

wow
 

You know, I am not going to sit hear and blow smoke up peoples asses, and say that I have never street raced. But as I got older, I also got wiser with this, and do not do it anymore.
He did not want to race?
then why did he? case of the dumb ass.

And he is going to do this kind of crap, I am not condoning it but, AT LEAST MAKE SURE YOUR SAFETY EQUIPMENT IS UP TO SNUFF!!!!!

I can't believe he would STREET RACE!!!! The nerve of some people with hopped up muscle cars!!! Don't ya know "responsible" people obey ALL driving laws........ just like everyone in here apparently!!!! :rolleyes:

Crap happens. I am glad to see he let his kid out tho. :woot:

Taken from another site

"I've seen this guy race many times and I have seen him race with the kid in the car and it got squirrelly on that pass as well. For the people saying he didn't wanna race that's a load hell I've got 3 videos of the thing racing in one day. It sounds like he'll pull through and thankfully the boy wasn't in the car on that pass. But yes that was our best street and is ruined now im sure for some time".

I'm surprised the authorities didn't say they were pressing charges.

I dont know if it was Jeff Smith or Terry McGean or whoever, but I had a pretty funny back and forth about that very subject on facebook.