Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Driver okay after spectacular crash

A racing driver who flipped about 12 times down the side of a hill in a spectacular crash during the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb walked away unhurt.



Jeremy Foley and his co-driver Yuri Kouznetsov took a corner too fast at the 16 mile mark of the famous rally race held in Colorado over the weekend.



The Mistubishi Evo 8 was ripped to shreds as it flipped continuously down the steep hill. Both men were airlifted to a local hospital and have since been released.


LiveLeak link.

Mr Foley said he was a little bruised by the crash and local media reports suggest he broke his leg while other reports suggest both drivers were not injured in the crash.

2 comments:

Gareth said...

If only road cars were as safe as rally cars.

Unfortunately when I used to run a fully caged car the insurance cost a fortune. The reason the insurers gave for this was that they felt somebody might injure themselves on the cage! They couldn't seem to understand that the cage was there to prevent injuries.

Ratz said...

Did he say "Ooh, that's way worse than last year?"