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Marshal Hit by Car - Galway International Rally

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  • #2
    Gary ITR
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,800 ✭✭✭✭Gary ITR


    Motorsport is dangerous, sh1t happens. Thankfully he was ok


  • #3
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,676 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    That could have been alot worse. Lucky man. Should they have been standing there ??


  • #4
    listermint
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 35,676 ✭✭✭✭listermint


    OSI wrote: »
    Pretty sure the driver took a wrong turn so shouldn't have been going down that road.

    Yes defintely got that part. But those mistakes surely are to be expected ?

    Hence the marshals perhaps should have been closer to the near side of the road (camera mans side)

    Anyway. Lucky lad not to come out of it with head injuries.


  • #5
    Fey!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    The reason for the box junction (all of the red and white tape) is just in case the driver takes a wrong turn, which could happen for a number of reasons.

    In this case the road should have been clear for 50 metres, with nobody standing on the road, as well as in designated areas in the fields and on the ditches around it.

    The marshals would have had a drawing like this:
    239489.jpg
    which shows exactly where people can't stand.

    If you compare the drawing with the video, you'll see that there aren't any people standing where the red lines are on the drawing.

    Unfortunately the marshal was out of position when this happened; thankfully he wasn't injured.


  • #6
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    One question OP, why mention a website in the title when it has nothing to do with the video? Oh I see now, it's ripped from youtube and re-uploaded by that site, but why not post the original and give the video take credit?

    Anyway marshal was totally in the wrong shouldn't have been standing in a box junction.


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  • #7
    dharn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,574 ✭✭✭dharn


    OSI wrote: »

    Wow, that's a nicely detailed post. Thanks.
    To make it worse his bib said offical programme seller so should have not been there anyway


  • #8
    Gambas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 847 ✭✭✭Gambas


    What is that man made of? Love the way he picks up the spec's and not a bother on him.


  • #9
    wobbles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭wobbles


    Blue bib means he was a sector marshal for that junction. Technically, they shouldnt even be in the box junction, but they would be reasonable safe on the side the camera man is on.

    Without seeing everything that was happening before he was hit its hard to know what was going on. To me, he looks to be speaking with the specators on the outside of the bend right before he gets hit. Should he have been there, no, but for anyone who has marshalled before knows, asking someone to move is better than shouting at them and telling them to move.

    Was at this corner years ago, and its just off a main road, not far from a village as well i think, so crowds are always big here. Its easier to keep people out of dangerous spots, than trying to move them when they are in those spots. It could be all he was doing


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