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Found on twitter ... video of the crash. No commentary (pretty much silent, actually). Viewer beware. -- (link)

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Feb 12 '10, 12:21

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http://www.mixx.com/videos/11198818/youtube_nodar_kumaritashvili_crash (www.mixx.com)

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Yikes. I guess you can't prepare for everything, but those posts without shielding seem...dangerous. - JaxSean Feb 12, 12:30 2
- Even if it's padded he's still hitting it at highway speeds. Getting ejected from the track at those speeds just isn't something you walk away from. -- nm - Ender Feb 12, 12:32 1
  - Yeah, that was rather brutal. - JaxSean Feb 12, 12:33
What'd it look like? Handycam or off-the-air recording? -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 12:29 8
- Like any other skeleton run. Fast, zipping by, hits a corner and loses control - JaxSean Feb 12, 12:32
- off-air, muted (probably to avoid automated auto filters on youtube) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 12:31 2
  - no, there was audio on it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 12, 12:32
  - auto=audio -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 12:31
- might have been doctored with video editing software. get on the case. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 12:31
- brutal. -- nm - Beaker Feb 12, 12:30
- looked like the regular feed....nm - x Feb 12, 12:30
- Off air. -- nm - Loyola Feb 12, 12:29
Deadspin comment: "I haven't seen an Eastern European fare that badly against gravity since Vladimir Komarov." -- nm - Beaker Feb 12, 12:29
heck, just the still photo they have on the NYTimes article is quite enough... -- nm - znufrii Feb 12, 12:28
Wow, the metal poles are holding up a canopy. Either sheet off that section so that crashed riders bounce down the track, or install a canopy with - Loyola Feb 12, 12:28 4
- canopy is probably to stop the rain from affecting the track conditions -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 12:29 2
  - Sure, but you can still keep the canopy by (for a quick fix) sheeting off the left hand edge of that section of the track, removing the danger of - Loyola Feb 12, 12:32
  - and sun -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 12, 12:32
- and Zone temperature control on the track please -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 12, 12:29
Already yanked. -- nm - Mop (228 lbs) Feb 12, 12:27
pulled aready -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 12, 12:26
Gone. -- nm - mara Feb 12, 12:26 2
- probably just as well, it was nightmarish -- nm - crash davis Feb 12, 12:27 1
  - it was horrible. -- nm - Diva Feb 12, 12:29
yikes....nm - x Feb 12, 12:26
sweet Zombie Jesus. -- nm - Beaker Feb 12, 12:25
Wow.... No way he was gonna survive that. -- nm - Spawn Feb 12, 12:25 1
- yeah. they were doing cpr on him at the track. -- nm - mafic Feb 12, 12:26
ow. -- nm - TFox Feb 12, 12:22
oh, it's a youtube embed. It'll probably be gone soon, too. Dangit! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 12, 12:22

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