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.
Comments
Wow, that’s horrible.
I would do a joke about the Honda Civic but this is too tragic…
Rest in peace!
Makes you think about rollcage even more… these old cars are maybe too dangerous.
Does the car have a rollcage? It doesn’t seem to have one.
Nope it didn’t
I love how the ring has these touristenfahrten sessions, it’s great for avid petrol heads that want to go on an automotive pilgrimage and I’m sure it injects a large sum of money into the local economy. I honestly fear that by the time I have a car worthy of driving from the UK to Germany, they would have abandoned the touristenfahrten sessions due to new strict health and safety regulations making it out of reach for me.
My condolences go to the poor families that are going through this tragic loss.
When I read the 29 year old french man I thought it was George with the cool ‘’83 civic that was on a CT YouTube video. Thankfully it wasn’t him, however that doesn’t mean that this accident isn’t tragic. Thoughts are with the friends and family of the two killed. RIP.
Rest in peace.
Ummm guys, there suppose to be a video right?