Gentlemen, I just got home 5 minutes ago after driving 600 miles from Middle Creek. I saw it in my camera as it happened, just horrific. Feel so sorry for him and his family. Life can be lost like that in split second. I got several shots before and during it happened, I won’t post them out of respect to his family but due to the heat shimmering and smoke , the pictures are not sharp anyway, at least from my cameras view finder. I will put them in the computer tomorrow to take a look. He was racing with Rob Hollland.
Based on what I saw in my camera’s view finder, some thing must have come apart on the right side of the truck, which was facing away from the viewers, I saw debris flying up from the right side before the truck was engulfed in fire.
The truck’s left side was facing the viewers. So before the debris on the right side flew up high enough to be visible, it’s not clear what happened before that. I estimate from the where the trouble started to where the truck flipped and stopped, it’s about 100 yards. The truck was in huge fire before it flipped. Two fire trucks arrived about a minute later and put out the fire. They would have called a chopper if there were any sign of hope. A bunch of pyro techs were standing very close to the truck’ s path when It happened. It was just the 4th or 5th act after the show started. Just horrible.
Douglas
Jul 02, 2022 at 11:17 PM
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