Vette Accident

[7upstang91]

I don't know if any of you guys heard but, two days ago a kid in a C6 Vette went through the straight away at Sebring. He didn't know there was a corner there and went through the sand into the wall. Was flown to the hospital via helicopter.

Anyone else hear anything about this??

 

[impulse001]

Really? Wow that terrible. I tried looking up a news report on it but found nothing..

 

[7upstang91]

Really? Wow that terrible. I tried looking up a news report on it but found nothing..

As did I. But it has been going around in a couple different online forums. A heard about it from a guy on LightningRodder and saw it on Need2Speed. But I couldn't find anything on LightningRodder and Need2Speed had basically nothing.

Although appearently someone in a race corvette went through that same area a few weeks ago. His throttle was stuck and he hit the wall, reports of fairly high speed over 130mph(heard 151mph not sure) sadly the guy didn't make it.

 

[banks]

you couldn't find anything because it wasn't as sebring.. it was at pbir

here is one thread

zr1 crash at PBIR - Corvette Forum

at first they thought it was a zr1 but it was just a c6, heard the kid is still in a coma. If i'm not mistaken the guy in the race vette died.. RIP

 

[tannerc91gt]

Damn, didn't think it was that hard to tell when you should stop....maybe it is

 

[7upstang91]

Damn, didn't think it was that hard to tell when you should stop....maybe it is

The guy who died was in full race car, and the throttle stuck. At those speeds and coming up on a corner not looking to hit the brakes till the last second. Doesn't give any driver awhole lot of time to react.

 

[tannerc91gt]

The guy who died was in full race car, and the throttle stuck. At those speeds and coming up on a corner not looking to hit the brakes till the last second. Doesn't give any driver awhole lot of time to react.

i was more referring to the kid in the C6 who didnt stop....

 

[7upstang91]

i was more referring to the kid in the C6 who didnt stop....

Oh sorry my bad. Not so much sure about that one. I wondered that myself. I heard it was his first time on the track.