VSCC Cadwell Park

[Alan Green]

A statement regarding the serious incident at VSCC Cadwell Park Race Meeting 13.06.2004

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14 Jun
"CADWELL PARK RACE MEETING SUNDAY 13 JUNE 2004
On Sunday 13 June 2004, the Vintage Sports-Car Club organised The Shuttleworth and Nuffield Trophies race meeting under Motor Sports Association Permit at Cadwell Park, Nr Louth, Lincolnshire.

In the course of the final race a serious collision occurred involving two cars that then struck a marshalling post.

The incident was attended by the on-track medical facilities and Lincolnshire County Air Ambulance. Tragically, one of the drivers, Len Thompson, aged 64 of Stebbing, Essex, was pronounced dead on arrival at The Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby. The other driver, Pete Candy, aged 65 of Bournemouth was taken by air ambulance to Lincoln County Hospital suffering from multiple broken bones. Local marshal, Bob Yarrow of Scunthorpe suffered a broken ankle in the incident.

Investigations into the cause of this accident will be subject to the local police and Coroner's enquiries. In accordance with this, no further comment can be made by the VSCC."
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Quite clearly, condolences to the family of the driver, and a speedy recovery to the other driver, and to a fellow marshal. Remember all, just because it's (generally) lower speed formulas, motor racing in all forms is still dangerous, and accidents do happen.

Alan.

[chauffeur]

Heart felt condolences to the family.I don't marshal that often but to witness an accident of that magnitude is really eye opening as well as sickening.Hope Bob has a speedy recovery after just getting back into marshalling.
My thought's are with all involved.

[Novice]

My condolences to the family of Len Thompson.

I wish both Pete Candy and Bob Yarrow speedy recoveries.

[bacon sandwich]

Originally posted by Novice
My condolences to the family of Len Thompson.

I wish both Pete Candy and Bob Yarrow speedy recoveries.

Ditto novice.

[blackx]

As a member of one of the rescue units attending the incident I can safely say that all directly involved with the incident felt a huge sense of loss afterwards and i am sure I can say without fear of reprisal that the thoughts of everyone go out to Len's family.
If anyone who was present feels the need to talk the please send me a pm and we can exchange phone numbers as a chat with a fellow marshal is often a good way of helping to deal with the aftermath of an incident as tragic as this..

[Gizmo]

Blackx is I believe echoing the thoughts of everyone that was there...a desperate end to what should have been a great day of motorsport.

[BugEyed]

Mrs B and I also wish to send our thoughts and condolences to the family of Len Thompson. We also wish a full and speedy recovery to Pete Candy and Bob Yarrow.

Having watched the incident from Post 4 (about 3-400 metres away) we can only say that it was awful to watch it take place, seemingly in slow motion. The response of Race Control and the Medical Staff was rapid and excellent, as was that of the other Marshals near to the incident who attended as quickly as humanly possible.

The incident was a sad end to an otherwise superb race meeting. Should any Marshal still be shocked by the incident and want to talk about it with another Marshal who witnessed it, then please PM us and we'll give you our phone number.

Duncan

[Pete Howarth]

Spoke to Bob last night, he's in good spirits and intends to out at the next meeting.

[Mark Mitchell]

There have been a number of messages of condolance left via the VSCC website "Contacts" link.

All messages are going to be collated and passed on to the family of len Thompson