US: Street blamed for fatal US car-show crash
27 Dec 2008 6:13 AM
The final state report into a 2007 car show crash in Tennessee in which an Australian drag racer accidentally killed six people .. blamed the design of the street where the event was staged.
The report by the Tennessee Highway Patrol found the street was peaked slightly to aid drainage and began to curve toward the end of the burnout route.
As a result .. the report found it differed vastly from the flat .. straight surface of a drag strip that the car was designed to be operated on.
TROY CRITCHLEY .. an Australian living in Texas .. pleaded guilty in August to 28 charges of reckless assault and sentenced to 18 months probation.
He was staging a burnout .. sending up clouds of smoke from his spinning tyres .. when he lost control and went crashing into spectators.
