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Two children die and eight people are injured after being hit by a race car

2021-10-24T12:06:02.736Z


A 6-year-old child died at the scene, while an 8-year-old died at the hospital. The competition was held at a Texas airport.


By Dennis Romero -

NBC NEWS

Two children were killed and eight people were injured when a racing vehicle ran off the track and struck spectators Saturday afternoon in the Texas Hill Country, according to authorities.

A

6-year-old boy

was pronounced dead at the scene and another

8-year-old

boy

died in a hospital, Kerrville police, where the accident occurred, said in a statement Saturday night.

Among the eight injured was a 46-year-old woman in critical condition;

a 27-year-old woman, also in critical condition;

a 26-year-old man whose status was unknown;

and a 34-year-old man, identified as the driver and described by police as "stable."

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Two other people were treated at the scene and released.

Also, a 3-month-old girl and a 4-year-old boy were hospitalized for evaluation "as a precaution," police said.

The injured were taken to medical centers in Kerrville, Austin and San Antonio, it added.

The accident occurred around 3:20 pm on a Kerrville Aviation temporary runway at the Kerrville-Kerr County Airport, about 65 miles (105 km) northwest of San Antonio.

Police, who are investigating the accident, said

the driver lost control and spun off the track

before hitting onlookers and parked vehicles.

The race was part of the 'Airport Race Wars 2' event.

Organizers and an airport official did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The scene of an accident in Texas where two children were killed and eight people were injured when a racing driver ran off the track Saturday.Kerr County Leader

Ross Dunagan, the founder of Flyin 'Diesel Performance & Offroad, an airport-side auto repair shop that hosted the race, said in a Facebook video about an hour after the accident: “The race is closed and we ask that you please Please pray for everyone involved. "

The event was touted on the Kerrville Convention and Visitors Bureau website as an

"action-packed day for the whole family

.

"

"Come see some of the fastest racing cars compete for more than $ 8,000 in prize money," the ad read.

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Unprepared races have become famous thanks to the success

of Discovery's

Street Outlaws

program

.

The term describes competition in which the tracks are not prepared on race day with a liquid traction compound that encourages tire grip and allows cars to move forward rather than spinning their wheels.

The show and its spinoffs have filmed multiple crashes during races and testing.

These types of races also usually involve a limitation in the size of the tires, which can also limit the grip.

The result is more unpredictable, since the most expensive car does not always win.

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“There is an

undeniable fascination and attraction

for the omnipresence of

danger,

of vehicles that appear to be beyond the limit of control, and these races have benefited and will continue to benefit from the risks taken by their racers,” wrote the Dragzine publication in a editorial in August.

But critics have called this style of racing dangerous, as reported by Motor Trend in 2015.

Unprepared races have been the scene of

numerous accidents,

some fatal, many of them recorded on video.

Although an airport might not be willing to use a sticky liquid on its tarmac, the use of airports for runway events and vehicle testing is not unusual.

Source: telemundo

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