Two die during Nürburgring Touristenfahrten
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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.
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.
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.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.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.Awful news
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.
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.
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.
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
https://youtu.be/pdPk6mA_gZs
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