Two People Were Killed In A Tragic Nurburgring Touristenfahrten Crash At The Weekend
A touristenfahrten session at the Nurburgring ended in tragedy on Saturday afternoon, with the driver and passenger of a Honda Civic perishing in a horrific crash. According to a reports, the Civic driver lost control at the Kesselchen section of track, crashing into the scene of an earlier incident which was being attended to by a pair of marshals in a safety car.
With the crash badly crushing the Civic, the 29-year-old French male driver and his 29-year-old female passenger died at the scene. The two marshals were injured - one seriously - while a third person was treated for shock.
The Nordschleife does have solar-powered warning lights, but Dale Lomas of Nurburgring blog Bridge to Gantry states that: “we need more of them, and in better positions, and more people dedicated to controlling them,” while also noting that Kesselchen is over a mile away from the nearest warning light. “This means that impatient drivers can often get ‘bored’ of slowing down for the light and will accelerate again leaving Bergwerk,” Lomas says.
Our thoughts go out to the families of those involved.
Sources: SWR and Bridge to Gantry,
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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RIP
Frankly, it’s amazing it doesn’t happen more often.
well, according to a rather old record on Touristenfahrten from police one person died in 2008 while 105 accidents happened… it is actually as save as never before, …. sadly this is also a part of opening a track to public….accidents will occur and some even might die or get seriously injured. But still I think the NS is one of the safest and most difficult and therefore dangerous tracks in the world. But safety measures are high standarts and ambulances and hospitals are good for crash injuries up there. Will hit the ring soon… One thing you got to do in a petrolheads life.
Nooo
First off I’ll say may they rest in peace what a horrific accident, but I might also just mention that I think it’s a disgrace that you see all these videos on YouTube with people flying around the track with no idea, no helmet and loaded with passengers. Head management needs to realize It’s a racetrack and not a usable tourist location.
Honestly drivers need to realize a racetrack is not just a joyride place for every withered wheeled piece of trash driven by unskilled racers, similar to how microwave ovens are not pet driers.
On a TF day, it’s a public-road and not a racetrack. Helmets aren’t required.
From what I have read so far, it appears this incident is being blamed on the ‘Ring marshalls. They were attending the scene of an earlier incident…to work out how much the guy had to pay for the damage to the armco - he had already finished his lap and owned-up to his ‘off’.
THANK YOU! For gods sake…. I thought Europe had strict regulations?? Here in the US my former go-to track (I’ve recently moved) would not allow any car that did not have a roll cage and 5 point harnesses onto the track. 1 passenger max. Helmets required. minimum age 21. and you must go on a few sighting laps with a track employee, first they drive your car to see if it is safe, then they watch you for a few, THEN you can go out and drive alone.
I wonder why that track is able to advertise they have had no fatalities??
Wow. What did they hit?
Probably nothing that hard. That car is basically an eggshell on wheels, if you hit something with it chances are it’s going to do massive damage.
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The EGs are known to have a weak structural cage even compared to cars of the same era as the EG. If you do have a crash, it’s going to crumple like a paperbag.
I was going to buy one…thanks for saving my life
Race In Peace.
R.I.P
Very sad indeed :(
This is a sad day. RIP. ;-;
Actually, I filmed it. This is a screenshot
Can you post it?
if you haven’t already, please don’t post it in respect for the drivers and their families. even though crashes are interesting to watch, it would not be appropriate
I’m not asking to make it public, but can you email me so we can talk about it? I’m actually specializing in how accidents work and what can be done fiscally to prevent them in my college major. Mad respect for not posting it tho. woodland_justin@yahoo.com