Yes most fatalities are absolutely driver error. Especially as the machinery becomes more complicated. I'm not debating that. The point is that there is a process of review and evaluation that must be conducted. That is what we owe the dead. Blaming them for their own demise before the process has been concluded is really unfair. Any premature conclusions based on the statistical probability that it wasn't a case of equipment malfunction is nothing more than that, a guess based on past events. By all indications this has a long list of atypical circumstances.
For starters most fatalities by sports car drivers on the road do not include trained sports car drivers let alone competitive ones. Secondly most of these fatalities do not include ultra rare, ultra ill-handling cars that can easily become dangerous with something as simple as an improper alignment. Third, most of these sports car fatalities do not occurr in this type of a street location where even getting the car at a sustainable high rate of speed is even possible, simply not enough road. And fourth, most of those fatalities don't occurr with this type of carbon fiber sports car construction -- this car at impact is unlike virtually every other sports car crash.
If there was ever an incident that was unlike most typical sports car fatalities I can hardly think of better one than this.
When you think about it, this exact accident could have occurred at virtually any stadium autocross where speeds can easily exceed the 65mph speed limit, and there's always a light pole of some kind near enough to wrap the car around it. Yet when is the last time you heard of someone dying from an impact during an autocross incident?
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Originally Posted by Tucker2
Sitting next to a coworker tonight on the bus on the way home...he said he had heard of a new video showing the actual crash. Not the security cam vids shown to date....but something new that came out late Pacific Time today. Anyone seen it? (I have not and am not claiming it exists....just asking).
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I did see a video on TV where the car is shown veering toward the edge of the road but the crash itself is obstructed by something getting in the way of camera.
There must be something up with showing that video, after seeing it I was sure it would be plastered all over the news over and over. and it seems TMZ pulled the video they had of the impact.