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Aussie possibly to be charged over deaths
Aussie drag racer 'not to blame' - General - News - smh.com.au
just saw that and 60 minutes and it really makes me ****ed off
The professinal drag racer and his car was invited to an charity event to proform a burnout on a closed road
apparnetly the police were incharge of the orgernisation and safty of the event.
even the fire department was there to water down the track for the car to do a burnout.
the car proceded to do the burnout when unexpectedly one wheel gripped lunching it into the crowd and killing 6 people and injurying many.
if you look at the videos you can clearly see the only thing between the crowd and the car was a standerd guard rail, to make it even worse the crowd was standing right on the railing
now they are looking at charging him with murder and being sent to jail for life
because of the incompitence of the police and orgernisation skills
anyone else have an opinion on this???
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Old news, but it is a serious joke. The only people that should be blamed are the councils that allowed this clearly unsafe event to take place.
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no so much the council its more so the police whom where running the event
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How can he even be charged with 6 counts of murder and 22 counts of agrovated asault?
Personally, I don't think he'll be convicted... He was invited to dod what he did. All motorsport is inherantly dangerous and there wsa no intent. There were no safety barriers either!
What were the organisers thinking?
The Police and Fire Brigade set it up for him to be able to do it....
Stupid Americans!
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Originally Posted by VL Berlina 5speed
Tennessee district attorney-general Mike Dunavant did not rule out
Critchley being charged.
"I'm not taking a stance on criminal charges," Dunavant told reporters at a press conference.
"There won't be a determination until all the facts are in."
"Troy Critchley was not arrested nor has he been given any indication
he will be charged with a criminal offence," the AMS statement continued.
The State of Tennessee is currently investigating a number of factors
that may have contributed to the accident, including crowd control, safety
precautions and the preparation and condition of the roadway."
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if the mother wants to hold the driver responsible, then the mother is just as responsible for taking her kids to the event!
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Poor bloke.... Imagine to guilt he would be feeling right now and having to go through this **** at the same time.
Hope he gets "let off" I cant see why or where he has done anything wrong, he didnt break any laws...
When loosing a loved one you always try your hardest to find someone to blame. Cant imagine the anger you would hold, even if it were an accident, she lost 2 kids, shes gotta blame someone.if the mother wants to hold the driver responsible, then the mother is just as responsible for taking her kids to the event!
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All much more of a factor than the driver... Americans need to wake up to themselves.
my little sleeper
you could tell on his face he was feeling it poor bloke its no diffrent to a wheel coming of a f1 car and killing someone in the crowd realy
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and she should be blaming herself just as much as she is blaming anyone else.
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Yeah what a joke. One of those things where accidents ruin peoples lives.
I'm fairly sure I signed a petition a while ago about this.
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Bloody stupid organization of the event with no barriers to protect the crowd or anything.
Poor guy, i think living with the fact that 6 people were killed is enough to deal with without having these bull**** charges hanging over his head.
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Thanks for the link
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i also think the organisers should have been charged.
however it's gotta be said - when he showed up and saw the road lined with kids and parents, he could have shut off the engine and told the organisers he wasn't going to drive. he took the risk and it was obviously a risk.
everyone is accountable for their decisions. a court would apply the test of reasonableness - was it reasonable to turn around and go home? i think a lot of people would say it was. that would land Troy in trouble.
having said that, i feel really bad for him.
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Good point, also the same could be said in regards to the spectators.... They could have walked away.
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a lot of them wouldn't have known what he was going to do. i imagine the court case will come down to that point - the organisers will no doubt say they had no idea he was going to drive like a maniac, etc.
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He didn't drive like a maniac. He did a burnout in a drag car. The organisers would have known what a burnout in a drag car was like!
my little sleeper
thats why he was there he was knowen for his big skids
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He still wasn't driving like a maniac!
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Stupid Americans, I really feel for this guy, bad enough that he hit and killed those people because the organisers failed to take due care but they want to make him the fallout guy.
Customize your life.
Well said.
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No doubt petrol heads on a forum such as this will leap to his defence, howe er, killing six people may well have been the actions of a maniac.
I havent heard or seen evidence of exactly what happened.
Did he go beyond his 'normal' act and take more risks in order to try and excite the crowd? it obviously all went pear shaped.....and yes his role in the catastrophe has to be questioned, along with the organisers.
Blaming the people that attended, that's a bit rich. Though I wouldnt personally go to any drag or road race where there isnt metal mesh between me and the action.......just a piece of molten piston out an exhaust pipe can fly into the crowd and kill.
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OMFG comsirac you're being a tool! You have no info about what happened by your own admission yet come to the conclusion that he may well be a maniac just because 6 people are dead. ACCIDENTS HAPPEN BUDDY!!!
Do you deliberately take the approach of ****ing everyone off constantly?
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