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PSDSRV SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2001 1 Color: Job T Revised, This year, auto racing lost a legend, Dale Earnhardt. Thirty-two more people died, Operator: ypeset, including a grandmother, a soybean farmer and others pictured below. area: CMYK date Each year, an average of 22 drivers, fans and workers never come home from races. date OUT NN and and / / Job time: time: T ypesetter: name: 11 11 / / 13 12 13 / XXXX0823 / 01 01 PDFPROOF , , ember 15 v 15 No : : 01 01 - 0001 7:59:24 1 / at: / TCP: Description: # 99 / Queue 1st at entry: the # Death track 0823 R A CING’S HUMAN TOLL RISKS IN THE STANDS By Liz Chandler UNFIT DRIVERS Staff Writer THE When someone dies in auto racing, it’s often called a freak ON THE thing or a fluke – so isolated and rare it can’t happen again. FANS But deaths aren’t as rare or isolated as the racing world be- TRACK It’s one of racing’s worst lieves. An Observer investigation found at least 260 people across The ill, the reckless and America died in auto racing since 1990. Patterns are evident; fears: A fan dies at a track. the young can race at deaths occur an average of 22 times a year. Since 1990, it’s happened Among those killed were 29 spectators, including five children. America’s tracks, which to at least 29 spectators. An additional 200 drivers and fans suffered traumatic injuries. often don’t screen drivers. In this year alone, a grandmother in a wheelchair was killed in PA G ES 4-5 PA GES 12-13 the grandstands at an Ohio track; a Florida driver was decapi- tated when he hit a guardrail; and driver Dean Roper died 10 RACING’S DEAD months after his son, Tony, was killed in a wreck in Texas.
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