Re: [californiadisasters] 8 Dead, 12 Hurt at Off-Road Race in CA. Desert

Nobody can be thinking that a plastic net barrier will stop any car or car
part. I presume the intended purpose of the plastic net is to keep the
people back. Obviously not far enough back.

BTW, the part reportedly broken would be the "tie rod", a piece which
connects the two front wheels together and keeps them pointing in the same
direction. If a tie rod breaks, the left wheel will go hard left and the
right wheel will go hard right (except that one of the wheels will probably
still be connected to the steering gear, so will stay controlled while the
other goes all the way out). Makes steering somewhat harder--like
impossible.

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From: <Fizzboy7@aol.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: [californiadisasters] 8 Dead, 12 Hurt at Off-Road Race in CA.
Desert

Terrible accident. No doubt they need to rethink how the crowd stands a
few feet away from jumping and racing trucks. A plastic net barrier is
next to nothing.

Jason

In a message dated 8/15/2010 1:08:35 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
kimnoyes@gmail.com writes:

8 dead, 12 hurt at off-road race in Calif. desert

Associated Press August 14, 2010 11:22 PM _Copyright Associated Press. A
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rewritten
or redistributed._
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/14/state/n232259D0
6.DTL&type=newsbayarea#license-/n/a/2010/08/14/state/n232
259D06.DTL)
Appeared in San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, August 14, 2010

(08-14) 23:22 PDT Los Angeles, CA (AP) --
Authorities say a vehicle ran into a crowd and killed eight people during
an off-road race in the _Southern California_
(http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Southern_California) desert.
_San Bernardino County_
(http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/San_Bernardino_County,_California)
sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Bachman says one of the
vehicles in the race called the _California_
(http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/California) 200 plowed into the crowd
Saturday night. She says 12 people were
injured and many of the wounded were airlifted to hospitals.
The race was being held in Soggy _Dry Lake_
(http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Dry_lake) Bed near the city of _Lucerne
Valley_
(http://topics.sfgate.com/topics/Lucerne_Valley,_California) .
No other details were immediately available.

Source:
_http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/14/state/n232259D0
6.DTL&type=newsbayarea_
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/08/14/state/n232259D0
6.DTL&type=newsbayarea)

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