Snowman Rally 16 Feb 2013
Discussion
Very unfortunately this has happened on stage 1 and the event cancelled
A 50-year-old woman has died after a rally car left the track and collided with spectators in the Highlands.
An eight-year-old boy was taken to hospital but police said his condition was not believed to be life-threatening.
A 50-year-old woman has died after a rally car left the track and collided with spectators in the Highlands.
An eight-year-old boy was taken to hospital but police said his condition was not believed to be life-threatening.
The almost complete lack of road racing/rallying on the UK mainland is down to an accident on a hillclimb in 1926(?), when a spectators leg was broken, and an Act of Parliament followed that banned public road motor sport. Of course the lack of such legislation on the Continent lead to the awful events that got the Group B rally cars banned, when proper spectator organsiation was needed.
Maybe our Lords and Masters did get it right, but rally organsiation was chaotic over there, as anyone who saw the recent TV programmes will know, if they didn't already. And as most here will know, despite rally organisers taping off dangerous areas, speccies insist on occupying them, and unless a good marshal (good at person management) comes along, can take a while to shift.
Can't remember where, but in a similar discussion recently, a lawyer said that no one can sign away their rights, one of which is that a rally is organised competently, with a view to spectator safety. "Motor sport is dangerous" is not a 'get of of jail free' card, but it will exhonerate the rally if the spectator was in place marked as dangerous.
JOhn
Maybe our Lords and Masters did get it right, but rally organsiation was chaotic over there, as anyone who saw the recent TV programmes will know, if they didn't already. And as most here will know, despite rally organisers taping off dangerous areas, speccies insist on occupying them, and unless a good marshal (good at person management) comes along, can take a while to shift.
Can't remember where, but in a similar discussion recently, a lawyer said that no one can sign away their rights, one of which is that a rally is organised competently, with a view to spectator safety. "Motor sport is dangerous" is not a 'get of of jail free' card, but it will exhonerate the rally if the spectator was in place marked as dangerous.
JOhn
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