Reply #12: He wasn't part of the race - he was just a driver on the highway [View All]

[RamboLiberal]

who drove in to the scene and these morons who had spilled in to the street to watch the racing cars. Let the cops sort it out.

Thick smoke and dark conditions likely meant the driver of a car that plowed into a group of people on a suburban road early Saturday, killing eight, never saw the crowd, police said.

The deadly crash happened when about 50 people who had gathered to watch a drag race spilled onto the highway to watch two racing cars speed off.

Police said the white sedan was not involved in the street race but accidentally drove into the crowd.

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Gaines said the car did not have its lights on, but police could not confirm that.

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A tractor-trailer that came by shortly afterward may also have struck someone on the road as it tried to avoid the crash, he said.

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The driver of the white sedan had been interviewed and did not appear to be seriously hurt, Police Capt. Donald Frick said. Police said a body found in the car was one of the spectators and not a passenger as they had previously reported.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/16/drag.race.deaths.ap/index.html

Anyone who drives can tell you that at night at best it can be last minute till you see someone in the street. Who would be expecting a crowd of people to be standing in the street in the wee hours of the morning!