How long before spectators are killed at rallies?

[Stephen Green]

Without wishing to be morbid, I have been watching rallying on the TV for some years and it seems to me that we have been very lucky not to have had a major accident involving spectator deaths so far. Watching spectators standing so close to the action, with no protection is surely a recipe for disaster? In the same vein, if you look at where many of them stand, should a car lose control and leave the stage, then there would be virtually no place for them to run to or hide.

While I fully appreciate the problems in keeping people back from the racing line in such circumstances, I feel we are living on borroed time with regard to a major accident that will mar the face of international motorsport.