Bonneville incident

[BruceG]

Don't know much about the salt and landing helecopters but a driver had an incident at 200mph and they drove him in an ambulance 120 miles to Salt lake city to the hopital! He died.....seems like a long time before getting hospital help.

[dick elliott]

Read about it at http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_13030674 RIP

[bonespec]

report I heard the passenger side door blew open (suicide style) and he lifted quickly.....car blew off all the body panels then whn it hit the cage could only do so much.

The is a slide show of the incident, it happened at the 5 mile marker.

[BruceG]

report I heard the passenger side door blew open (suicide style) and he lifted quickly.....car blew off all the body panels then whn it hit the cage could only do so much.

The is a slide show of the incident, it happened at the 5 mile marker.

Just thinking that ALMS won't even come to LRP(or any other track) without an emergency chopper onsite. Why would the organizers of a speedweek at Bonneville not have a chopper when the nearest hospital is 120-130 miles away? A chopper could be at Hartford hospital from Lime rock in the time it took them to drive the ambulance of the salt!!

[bonespec]

Landing a Heli on the salt?????

[JoshS]

They must not have felt it was too serious to have been willing to drive all the way to Salt Lake City. They could have driven him to Wendover (close) and then flown him from there. Wendover is right next door to Bonneville on the Nevada state line. It has an airport including a heliport, lots of casinos, etc. It's where everyone stays when visiting Bonneville.

[bonespec]

exact opposite.

Remember the SLOW ambulance ride for Earnhart Sr.?

they choose the ambulance due to the extent of his injuries and assessed the chances of living to minimal/none.

There were helos on the salt........

[bonespec]

More info, the car rolled for a mile before coming to a stop. During the impact his leg was severed and he bleed out before the EMT's arrived.

they put him in the ambulance and called the t.o.d en route to avoid having the track shutdown for investigations .... happens more than you would know

[BruceG]

More info, the car rolled for a mile before coming to a stop. During the impact his leg was severed and he bleed out before the EMT's arrived.

Ah...explains it all, then...thanks.