European Sled Pull fatality

I hope I'm long retired from this sport before we see our first fatality...either pulling or drag racing....but it will eventually happen.
 
UNBROKEN said:
I hope I'm long retired from this sport before we see our first fatality...either pulling or drag racing....but it will eventually happen.
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Yeah...you'd never even think that could happen until it has.
 
Well if you ask that, why did the weight box fly off? He had some serious speed going on there...
 
Truly is tragic...thankfully no one else was hurt because from the look of the video it deffinatly could have happened when everything went totally out of control!!!


RyanB
 
I imagine the cage wasn't re-enforced/designed for the large rearward hit that it took..

Sad :(
 
this truly is sad and scares the crap out of me cause all what happend is the transfer box wasnt in gear and he killed the tractor and the force of it not being in gear threw it up fwd and threw all the wieghts out of the box. this yr at urbana the sled operator forgot to put it in gear but luckily he put on his air breaks and didnt let me get going.....
 
Thats a bad deal for sure. Several years ago there was a fatality at a tractor pull in Lebanon, Ky (i think). Dont quote me on this but, IIRC the tractor was running excessive rpms but still had a stock flywheel. Flywheel came apart and some pieces went flying into the crowd. One piece struck a man in the head and he died not long after. It really does make you stop and think. We take so much stuff for granted each day.

Look at some of the comments on the video. People joking and making fun. Just another reminder of what a whacked up world we live in*bdh*
 
I cannot see the video but I have seen the chain break on a weight box and not move all the way down the track (needless to say the truck was hauling a$$ when it got to the end and hit the brakes, as well as the sleds brakes being on. The box slid all the way up the rail and hit the stops HARD!!!!!! Almost came over the top onto the truck :badidea: It was a bad deal all the way around
 
A subtle reminder of why safety is so big to our promoters.

Sure, some stuff may be a pain in the ass, but imagine how much of a jerk you'd feel like if your lack of adherance to the rules caused a death.
 
Tractor pull

A guy I have been helping in a machine shop helped build a tractor that a guy got killed by. It was a 3208 Cat that got converted to alcohol and the guy got thrown from the tractor and then ran over by it. his happened back in the early 80s i believe.
 
DirtyBlonde said:
A subtle reminder of why safety is so big to our promoters.

Sure, some stuff may be a pain in the ass, but imagine how much of a jerk you'd feel like if your lack of adherance to the rules caused a death.
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:rockwoot: Great Post!
 
I was at the Lebanon Ky pull when that Allis blew in half and that guy got hit with a piece of the flywheel. This year was the first year they had a pull there again since it happened. I have personally been at diffrent pulls that have accounted for 3 deaths and I have only been doing it for 17 years. When you ae dealing with motorsports its always risky, that is why it is important to try to do everything right and as safe as possible.
 
I dont quite understand how the box can go from not being in gear to launching at supersonic speeds, all at once.
 
I see what happened,the weight box was not engauged (do not know anything about sleds)but it was not moving on the pull.When he got out of the throttle the weight box free wheeled to the top wide open!Once his momentum stoped the weight started rolling towards him!Then they say that it took a hour to free him.It seems like they would have taken a chain hooked to the recovery tractor & the roll cage & pulled him off the engines!
Bad deal all around!
Looks like sled operator error or sled malfunction.
 
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