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7 Oct 2005, 12:04 (Ref:1426321) | #1 | |
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Your opinions would be appreciated
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If you could take the time to have a brief look at this thread - http://tentenths.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=39 Your opinions as drivers would be much appreciated. Many thanks, EP |
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7 Oct 2005, 13:37 (Ref:1426440) | #2 | ||
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Try this one instead: http://tentenths.com/forum/showthread.php?t=74787
My first thoughts were along the lines of: I can't believe the driver(s) got off so lightly with that sort of behaviour, particularly with the CofC in attendance. Should have been serious points on licence or even a temporary ban for the troublemaker. How did the driver being 'rescued' feel? |
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7 Oct 2005, 14:39 (Ref:1426522) | #3 | |
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Does anyone know what the "obstructer's" motives were? My experiences in life suggest that someone does something slightly weird often without a decent reason
( thoughtlessness or similar,) but when apparently really weird as this is there is often a strong reason ( at least in his mind ) why he did it. So, I think we need to hear from the defence. |
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7 Oct 2005, 14:48 (Ref:1426531) | #4 | |
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Personally I can't see what the defence would be for what was done but I agree it would be interesting to hear his reasons. I have sent emails to a couple of people in the class regarding it as I don't have contact details for him.
I would ask the following questions though, just to see what you think:
His reasons stated at the time were that he didn't want the car cut. Nothing else. |
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7 Oct 2005, 14:59 (Ref:1426542) | #5 | |
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It really is quite odd. Did he own the car? I can believe that someone who knows a particular make of car very well has useful information to give to a crew trying to remove an injured driver, but standing on it driving everone away doesn't seem to fall into that category.
I must admit my medical qualifications are in the minus figures, and if someone tries to get out of a car following a crash I assume they are OK or at worst will recover. For that reason when I hit something the first thing I do is take off the steering wheel and toss it over the side. That way you guys and girls on your way to me know there is no big deal problem. But back to the issue, there seems little doubt that he was out of order, but the true motives remain a fascination. |
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7 Oct 2005, 15:07 (Ref:1426552) | #6 | |
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As far as I am aware he did not own the car, nor was he related to the driver.
Sadly, someone getting out of a car doesn't mean they're not injured. The whole issue with crashes is that it creates adrenaline which can mask pain and symptoms of injury. In addition, with spinal injuries, it can take up to 24 hours for the damage to present, depending on what it is. I can give you a couple of cases that I've witnessed personally. A driver who got out of a car after a head on collision with a tree in the Park. 2 fractured vertibrae. The actions of our medics when they arrived at the scene and did a standing take down on him were very probably the only reason he didn't spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. A biker who got up after a big spill, ran across the track and then collapsed. Fractured pelvis. It's not supposed to be possible to stand up if you have a fractured pelvis, never mind run, but this guy did it. If a doctor or an EMT cannot tell just by looking if someone is injured, then I really can't see how someone with no medical training can do so. Our policy is based on the mechanism of injury. If someone SHOULD be injured because of what happened to them, treat them as though they are until proven otherwise. |
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7 Oct 2005, 15:19 (Ref:1426560) | #7 | |
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Don't misunderstand me EP, I am eternally grateful for you and the qualifications of the doctors at the events. I was merely pointing out my lack of knowledge in that area, and in its absence the only criteria I have for making a decision.
Fortunately no-ones good health is dependant on the accuracy of my decision. unfortunately it sounds as if the guy in question had my limits of knowledge and used them to make a decision. I'm going home soon, so don't think the silence means I'm sulking !! |
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7 Oct 2005, 15:37 (Ref:1426573) | #8 | |
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Bob, I was only trying to address your queries and I'm not in the least offended. Sorry if it seems that way - I try to be as dispassionate as possible when explaining this stuff.
More drivers should ask these questions instead of thinking we're all gung ho eejits looking for an excuse to destroy an engine with powder or a roll cage with a cutter! I'm going home too! |
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On a point of interest, how was the female driver and how did she get out in the end?
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On the subject of not noticing or realising the extent of ones injuries, I have walked a mile to a phone with two fractured knees and taken several days to realise I have a fractured leg or arm. Maybe I just haven't got any sense.
One thing that my numerous collisions with solid objects on my motorcycles has taught me is people can react very differently in the event of an accident, even if they aren't directly involved. One woman wouldn't let go of her steering wheel for half an hour, one taxi driver couldn't stop laughing, some guy just shrugged his shoulders and offered to just tell his insurance company he backed into a post whilst parking after I drove into the back of him whilst trying to work out where a rattle was coming from (it was a defective gearbox sprocket retaining plate design). If the driver had a low opinion of the marshalls ability to handle the situation then I can sort of understand his actions, dunno, maybe he fancied the female driver. However he clearly needed a much bigger kicking from the officials than he got. I would have made in marshall an event or two and maybe stuck him on a marshall/first aid course as a prereq to getting a licence next year. I just hope that guy doesn't drive HIS car into the armco at the same point with the same marshalls present. I expect the marshalls will act in their usual professional manner but I am sure they could be a little overzealous with the roll cage and race suit cutters, glass hammer and fire extinguisher pull cables! |
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EP.. there's surely got to be more to this than meets the eye. If the overview you gave was accurate, witnessed, and without extreme extenuating circumstances, then I would expect any CoC in the UK to ask the marshalls to remove the obstructing driver, ask the emergency crews to follow standard procedures to remove the driver in the car, then suspended the obstructing driver from the meeting pending a full inquiry. If the CoC didn't do something along these lines then I would expect the MSA (or its Irish equivalent) to suspend both driver and CoC pending a full enquiry.
If neither of these has happened then, as I said, there must be more factors than we can see. as for why the obstructing driver might have acted that way... well... this is NOT a defence of his actions... but let's say, hypothetically, the offending driver had been personally involved in a similar incident previously. He'd rolled his car and had come to rest upside down, fully concious, badly bruised, but nothing broken. Suddenly he's decended on by a team of highly professional and dedicated marshalls and emergency personel who insist he remains exactly where he is while they bring on the cutting gear. They ignore his protestations that he's fine because they know (quite rightly) that he might not realise he actually has a broken back or similar. So his pride and joy, invested with every last penny he has, is duely opened like a sardine can, only later to find out that he's perfectly ok, but has lost his chance at the championship because the officials have trashed his car with not so much as a by-your-leave or any compensation. So, fast forward to the incident. He sees the car roll and land on its side. He is determined to get there before the marshalls, jumps on the car and yanks the door open. The fact that it opens at all proves to him that the roll hasn't seriously deformed the body shell so the impact couldn't have been that bad. He shouts in to the driver to check if they're concious and gets a thumbs up and a shout that everything is fine..... so now he's on a mission to prevent some one's pride and joy from being turned into sushi.... Like I said... I'm not excusing anything, but what I just wrote has got to be at least a plausible explanation of what seem like the actions of a madman. As for the reported actions of the CoC... I can't even hazzard a guess. Just so as you don't get me wrong... FWIW, if I was driving at that meeting and watched it happened, I'd expect the offending driver to be wrestled to the ground and removed from the track by the marshalls and I'd applaud and buy them a drink |
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There may well be an underlying cause for this driver's actions but...... does this excuse him or the perceived lack of punishment?? Please Discuss. |
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8 Oct 2005, 01:42 (Ref:1426916) | #13 | ||
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To answer your original question Pumpkin, my opinion is that the offending driver should have his licence withdrawn. Ditto the CoC.
I would be very unhappy racing against this chap, or under the auspices of the clerk. Behaviour this bizzare might perhaps relate to alcohol or substance abuse. Was the guy tested? |
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8 Oct 2005, 10:21 (Ref:1427106) | #14 | |
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This driver should have been loaded up and excluded from the meeting.
I am amazed at some of the drivers reactions to marshals, do they not realise that if it were not for marshals we could not race. It should be mandatory that all drivers should attend a marshals course and marshal at at least one meeting. |
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His actions are clearly totaly out of order, but I feel we are not getting the whole story here, there is no mention of how the female driver was eventually removed from the car, how she was or the reason for the other competitor and his companion obstructing the marshals.
As dtype38 said, maybe he has been involved in a similar incident and seen someone's pride and joy cut open needlesly. Did anyone actualy find out why he acted the way he did or even ask him afterwards? |
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8 Oct 2005, 11:34 (Ref:1427168) | #16 | |
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Ok lots of questions here which I will try and answer as fully as I can.
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Personally if I were injured and maybe trapped in a car and some clown decided to dance around on top preventing any help arriving I would be pleased if a swift right hook was administered to said member of the circus community. |
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Are you sure he was not a person with medical training and was trying to prevent the girl being extracted till further confirmation that she had no spinal or hidden injuries? Because I really cannot understand his beef if something like this was not the case. Maybe he is just a nutter!
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8 Oct 2005, 21:34 (Ref:1427656) | #19 | ||
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She was originally to be extracted but she wanted to get out of the car so rather than distress her further, she was allowed to do so and then a standing takedown was performed. Mr. Angry was eventually talked down from the car which allowed the doctor to gain access. Al, yes we're sure that he was not medically qualified - particularly not more so than the man in the red jumpsuit with DOCTOR written on it. From the evidence stated, it seems highly unlikely that he was just trying to prevent any action pending a medical examination. Someone who tries to prevent a doctor from attending an incident would not appear to have that intention. |
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I'm sure you didn't mean that, but it does raise the issue that even with full emergency teams, a doctor, and lots of special equipment, the driver can still over-rule any medical advice and just get out of their car and walk off. I'm also pretty sure that unless they are sectioned under a mental health act (UK law) or arrested, then they are perfectly within their rights to do so, although I'm not actually sure if that's a good or a bad thing. Perhaps a route forward would be to add an "Agreement to Comply with Safety Advice" section to race entry forms. This could set out the rules of the circuit and require drivers to sign that in the event of an accident they agree to follow any and all instructions given by marshalls and medical/emergency staff. This would not prevent a driver choosing to ignore safety advice, but would give a clear cause for their instant exclusion from the race meeting and an investigation into possible further diciplinary action. |
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I take your point dtype but adrenilin rush kick in or not I am sure she must have been there for a good few minutes to gather herself together and I am also sure she must be the best judge if she is OK to move, ie. she can wiggle her toes, move her head, no blood etc. of course after consultation with the specialist medic on the spot as well.
Mind you having said that it sort of reminds me years ago when I had a nasty rugby accident and snapped a medial ligament in my knee clean in two, the lads rushed out with a stetcher, me being the big hard man said no need for that I can walk off to a "Can you carry the stretcher back with you Al" which I did only to find myself having emergency surgery 24 hours later and was lucky not to end up a cripple!. |
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10 Oct 2005, 14:43 (Ref:1429647) | #22 | |
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Sorry - a standing take down is when someone is put on a spinal board from a standing position.
The board is brought to the back of the person, they are attached using the straps and then lowered gently downward and put on the stretcher. In cases where someone has had an accident and then starts to feel pain after the fact, this would be done to ensure c-spine stability until the person had been thoroughly checked. One thing to bear in mind about spinal injuries - in a lot of cases, they don't present immediately. All the stuff you see on TV about "can you wiggle your fingers" is not really very helpful. It's perfectly possible to wiggle your fingers and toes with a spinal injury. It's perfectly possible to walk around with certain kinds of spinal injury. For a while anyway. The main issue with spinal injuries is less the breaking of the vertibrae and more to do with damage to the spinal cord. That's the thing that will paralyse you. Immobilising someone with a spinal injury is to try to protect the spinal cord by limiting any movement that might cause the exposed cord to be damaged. Adrenaline is an amazing thing, but it can mask symptoms of serious injury for quite some time - Al's experience is a very good example of this. Also people have different pain thresholds and do not always react the way you might expect to certain injuries. One person may be crying with pain at a sprained ankle, whilst another may be only showing slight discomfort when they have a broken bone. |
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Hey EP he was'nt another Irish Priest in disquise as a race driver was he ? Is so send Stephen out there to sort him out next time!
Joking aside when I was a mere lad I worked for Roger Nathan Racing and I had spent a good few weeks sorting out his mothballed Imp for a Dutch girl to have a race in. I was standing at the fence at Lydden Hill with Radio London's driver Keith St.John (her fella) and she comes wanging around the left hander leading up the hill on the first lap and rolls the thing. I remember Kieth yelling out 'Lianna' and me shouting as just as loud 'Look what the silly *itch has she done to my bloody car'. Stupid I know and if she had not walked away uninjured I would have felt right bad and probably have been hooked by Kieth (he was a bruiser) but it is just the spur of the moment thing as this incident probably was and the guy probably felt a right idiot after. |
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10 Oct 2005, 15:02 (Ref:1429675) | #25 | |
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I'd like to believe that he did Al. But the absence of an apology would indicate otherwise.
Still maybe you're right and he's just shy........... |
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