Two die during Nürburgring Touristenfahrten

Two die during Nürburgring Touristenfahrten

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V8mate

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45,899 posts

188 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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News still breaking, so no details yet...

Two occupants of a (private) car crashed off after colliding with another vehicle at the 'ring today.

Both occupants killed instantly, and two marshals seriously injured too. From what I can make out, the car which crashed off had also had another minor accident earlier in the day.


carl_w

9,154 posts

257 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Surely it's closed for the WEC 6h qualifying today?

Edit: my mistake, that's on the GP circuit

Edited by carl_w on Saturday 23 July 19:51

nickfrog

20,871 posts

216 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Very sad - I was at DN15 yesterday and my 2 friends stayed today for TF but left at lunch time so it must have happened in the afternoon.


Edited by nickfrog on Saturday 23 July 21:07

X5TUU

11,907 posts

186 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Tragic news. Such an awful unnecessary way to depart

Bodo

12,368 posts

265 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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V8mate said:
From what I can make out, the car which crashed off had also had another minor accident earlier in the day.
This http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/rp/touristen... says that a car with two occupants crashed into another smaller earlier crash incident, which the marshals had attended. The driver from the minor crash remained uninjured.

Pebbles167

3,417 posts

151 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Apparently the crash site is notoriously difficult, particularly in the wet. This is exacerbated by the nearest warning light being 2km further back, drivers get bored and increase speed.

Sad way to go. Have trackday drivers died at the ring before?

V8mate

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45,899 posts

188 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Bodo said:
V8mate said:
From what I can make out, the car which crashed off had also had another minor accident earlier in the day.
This http://www.swr.de/landesschau-aktuell/rp/touristen... says that a car with two occupants crashed into another smaller earlier crash incident, which the marshals had attended. The driver from the minor crash remained uninjured.
Thanks. That makes more sense. And explains why the marshals were injured.

VonSenger

2,465 posts

188 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Pebbles167 said:
Sad way to go. Have trackday drivers died at the ring before?
Yes but mainly on 2 wheels.

cailean

917 posts

172 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Sad. I'm here for WEC and went around the ring about 3pm. It was rainy on and off and track would have been damp or wet at that time. Amazing place though but it needs caution in the wet.

Iva Barchetta

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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I did 1 lap yesterday at about 6pm ,the Audi in flames wasn't a pretty sight either.

It's on YouTube already filmed from a British Merc......."Audi S3 fire Nurburgring"

vz-r_dave

3,469 posts

217 months

Valgar

850 posts

134 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Not sure I understood the translation, did a car hit a group of people that were at the side of the road after an accident?

Awful news

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Tragic news.

Amazing circuit but it can bite very hard.

R.I.P

EnglishTony

2,552 posts

98 months

Saturday 23rd July 2016
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Valgar said:
Not sure I understood the translation, did a car hit a group of people that were at the side of the road after an accident?

Awful news
In essence yes.

Article says 2 people in a car died when they tried to take a corner too fast. The car collided with 2 marshalls both of whom are severely injured. The 3rd person, who suffered only a shock, was a driver of another car that had previously had a minor accident and was behind the barriers. Reading between the lines the marshalls weren't.

Pebbles167

3,417 posts

151 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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VonSenger said:
Pebbles167 said:
Sad way to go. Have trackday drivers died at the ring before?
Yes but mainly on 2 wheels.
Yeah that would make sense, to die in a car though is almost unheard of. Shows the reality of how dangerous driving very fast can be.

BrewsterBear

1,503 posts

191 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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Grim news. I was there in April and the lack of grip on a cold damp track is quite unnerving. I tip-toed around in 10m45s in my Fiesta ST, but there were lots of other cars being very adventurous. Fair play to them, but they don't call it the Green Hell for nothing.

Seek

1,169 posts

199 months

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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It is a notoriously dangerous stretch, we almost had the exact same accident a few years ago.

In a hot hatch I'm taking that corner at anywhere between 120-130mph but it is blind and unsighted, on the previous left handers and we came across an accident with a few cars parked up and a marshal running down the middle of the track with a yellow flag. we would have been 100+ mph by that point and turning left.

Quite how I missed him I don't know and by the time we had to avoid the accident I was slow enough to get off the brakes and get around the other cars.


VonSenger

2,465 posts

188 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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I imagine it was a bit like these lucky lads, it's a very very quick part of the circuit which once comfortable is taken almost flat out and is partially blind:

https://youtu.be/pdPk6mA_gZs

k-ink

9,070 posts

178 months

Sunday 24th July 2016
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RIP