It's hard to imagine as fast as those cars are, that they don't have fire suppression onboard. However, if You're knocked unconcious during the crash, You're at the mercy of whomever is there to respond.
A lot of Our street racing in the Pgh. area got shut down due to incidents...New Stanton at Technology Drive(leading to & from the old VW Plant..it was used by Sony early '90's), Crafton Industrial Park, Corrigan Drive in South Park, unfinished sections of the Mon/Fayette Expressway(43), Meadowlands Ind. Park, & lot's of rural locations...the '80's-mid '90's were rockin' times here.
There were "understandings" for them, the Popo would let it go on for a bit then run Us off ~1-1:30AM, We'd return 1/2hr later & usually leave/get chased off by 2-2:30.
But of course dumbasses, complaints, & a couple of accidents....and they dropped the hammer on all of it. I lost My license '93-'94, and when that was up, there wasn't much to go back to.
At Crafton, a Kid was riding the back wheel on His bike, towards the entrance, and bounced off the front of an innocent motorist's minivan that started to enter...bike jammed under a Sundance turbo, Kid at the curb w/a broken hip. Later that month, Guy I went to tech school with was running His '69 Camaro w/a 454 TR against a 5.0L 'stang w/a Paxton, a couple of guys warned Him the Kid was 'all over the place' at the track.....well, they ran & the 'stang lost it on the top end. We heard tires & I looked up in time to see Donny on the brakes & the 'stang do a barrel roll, the slicks actually bounced the rear up in the air, it was almost standing on the nose when it hit the guiderail. Luckily it was near the end of the rail, and slid back until the Dr. door that had popped stuck in the embankment. After that episode, ....there were cops that 'attended' regularly, one in a T-type...the future of this was pretty much doomed...
A lot of Our street racing in the Pgh. area got shut down due to incidents...New Stanton at Technology Drive(leading to & from the old VW Plant..it was used by Sony early '90's), Crafton Industrial Park, Corrigan Drive in South Park, unfinished sections of the Mon/Fayette Expressway(43), Meadowlands Ind. Park, & lot's of rural locations...the '80's-mid '90's were rockin' times here.
There were "understandings" for them, the Popo would let it go on for a bit then run Us off ~1-1:30AM, We'd return 1/2hr later & usually leave/get chased off by 2-2:30.
But of course dumbasses, complaints, & a couple of accidents....and they dropped the hammer on all of it. I lost My license '93-'94, and when that was up, there wasn't much to go back to.
At Crafton, a Kid was riding the back wheel on His bike, towards the entrance, and bounced off the front of an innocent motorist's minivan that started to enter...bike jammed under a Sundance turbo, Kid at the curb w/a broken hip. Later that month, Guy I went to tech school with was running His '69 Camaro w/a 454 TR against a 5.0L 'stang w/a Paxton, a couple of guys warned Him the Kid was 'all over the place' at the track.....well, they ran & the 'stang lost it on the top end. We heard tires & I looked up in time to see Donny on the brakes & the 'stang do a barrel roll, the slicks actually bounced the rear up in the air, it was almost standing on the nose when it hit the guiderail. Luckily it was near the end of the rail, and slid back until the Dr. door that had popped stuck in the embankment. After that episode, ....there were cops that 'attended' regularly, one in a T-type...the future of this was pretty much doomed...
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