@ summit point
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Originally Posted by amp' post='773771' date='Oct 29 2005, 04:37 AM
@ summit point Someone went through some fields in West Va.. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...1047683358.gif |
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https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/unsure.png one less cym oh no more importantly i hope he lived to drive another day
from http://autos.groups.yahoo.com/group/rx7/message/108336 Well, let's bring this closer to home, then. Trev Dagley and his friend Jon were both wearing their seat belts when they crashed on Saturday, June 24th, 2000 in Jim Dagley's CYM R1. Sunday the 25th would have been his 27th birthday, and he was testing a new in-car camera mount for an event in California that he and his father were going to attend for his birthday present. The footage ends right before the crash, after four consecutive redline shifts on a long straight. The car left the road at an estimated 140 mph, and Trev was immediately expelled from the vehicle despite having his seatbelt on, and died on impact. His friend Jon was still in the car, which traveled 200 yards from the road, over a hill 15 feet above the surface the road, hit a stand of Alder trees, and slid to the ground to partially burn as the tank filler hose was torn from the tank. He was dead on impact, his head where his feet should have been, his feet up by the roof... still in his seatbelt. If you think a seatbelt will save you, even if your car has a full cage and 5-point harnesses, you're fooling yourselves. Professional drivers in controlled environments sometimes don't make it despite more roll cage than you'd ever put in a passenger car, neck braces, and helmets. Trees and rocks don't give much, and uneven terrain can do things to a car that no cage designer ever planned for. Side impacts from another NASCAR driver isn't what we're worried about here, it's sharp pointy things, like branches, going through windows and the gaps in the cage. Rocks don't have crumple zones. Drive sane, and if you "have" to travel at high speeds, at least do it as responsibly as possible. In isolated areas, for short bursts, in straight lines. Every time I hear someone say "just take 'em in the twisties", I cringe for two reasons. First, because it's probably the "gayest" thing I've ever heard a group of supposedly cool people adopt as a standard phrase. Second, because I know that many of you think you automatically inherited super-human driving powers by buying your "perfectly-balanced" cars, but when it comes right down to it, more than likely can't drive well enough to save your life if an unexpected situation arose. I'm constantly reading about someone who has bent a rim or wrecked their car because they spun it on wet pavement or zigged when they should have zagged, usually on bald tires... and this is what you entrust your life to? Bald tires and your driving skills? Remind me never to ride with you. https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...IR#>/smile.png It'll be far worse when that situation happens and you're traveling far too fast to pull your fat out of the fire. Don't fool yourself into believing you're in control of the machine, or that you can get away with something because it's an RX-7... or because you've got track tires on the car... or because you've attended Skip Barber's driving school... or whatever justification or rational you come up with for putting your (and sometimes others) life in danger. You only get one ride on the merry-go-round, folks. Make it last. Jim LaBreck - jimlab@... |
Thats pretty close to what my old BB looked like afterwards. This thread is sad, it should get locked.
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Originally Posted by sweet7' post='773844' date='Oct 29 2005, 11:48 AM
Thats pretty close to what my old BB looked like afterwards. This thread is sad, it should get locked. No way Jose' https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png |
Originally Posted by j9fd3s' post='773795' date='Oct 29 2005, 06:51 AM
Looks like it rolled over? |
Originally Posted by Fd3BOOST' post='773855' date='Oct 29 2005, 01:42 PM
Looks like it rolled over? yep, i forget the story but he either went off or hooked a wheel on a curb and rolled it |
Originally Posted by onereven7' post='773834' date='Oct 29 2005, 12:12 PM
https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...R#>/unsure.png one less cym oh no more importantly i hope he lived to drive another day isnt that trev dagley's car? is it is he died in that thing |
thanks Mike!
And on a sadder note, Trev and his companions death were not neccasary |
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