panel which sent tommy s car right. we knew that was bad. in the business of drag racing, everything could change in a fraction of a second. when david s car steers into tommy s, traveling at 150 miles per hour, that s all it takes for things to go seriously wrong. when it went right and off the track into the grass, there was a small hump right there when you went off the track and he hit it, he hit it just right. the car just started barrel rolling. it went up in there and just started flipping. it looked like it was going faster there than it was actually on the race track. kind of a strange thing to see a 3,000-pound car flipping. it wasn t supposed to be that way, it didn t look right. a drag racer since he was 14 years old, gaylon is no stranger to crashes. he even had a scary one himself in 2010, also caught on camera. he knows what tommy is going through. losing control of the car as a driver kind of gives you an eerie feeling.
point in time. everything looked as it was going as normal for a drag race. a friend and competitor of both drivers for years. having raced against them several times. he has great respect for their skills. tommy haas been racing since 69. he was a true racer. if the tracks were opened and there was something going on, he was there. david hugo was a smooth driver. they had a team that would do anything for you. as far as i know, tommy adams nor david hugo has ever, ever had an accident up until that day. both drivers flawless track records are about to take a major hit with a heart stopping collision all caught on camera. david hugo on the right lane looked like his car moved out of the groove towards the right guard rail and tommy looked like he was going right down his lane and david s car actually darted across the track and kind of hit tommy adams car in the corner
hold on and stop breathing and see where you re going. at that point in time you re probably running over 100 miles per hour and you don t know what s happening. probably felt like somebody was beating him to death. gaylon rushes down to his friend where paramedics are already working on him. they got his helmet off and they checked all of his vitals and checked all of his signs and they weren t sure if he had a concussion or neck injury or head injury or back injury. it was kind of crazy. at that point in time we didn t know how bad he was hurt because you don t know until he goes to the hospital and get checked out. the care flight helicopter rushes tommy to the closest trauma center. david, the driver who hit him, is uninjured and devastated about his friend. he was probably one of the most upset people there. i guess he felt like he might have been the cause of it or whatever.
to this day rob still marvels at how he wound up in the right place at the right time, even though it was the wrong place and wrong time for the driver. the fact that i had my camera set up and pointed towards the ramp when the truck was coming down. i can t imagine i am speechless. the timing couldn t have been more perfect. you never think that anything like this is going to happen when you are going out on a shoot. coming up, a base jumper overextends himself with brutal consequences. before i could even really know what s happening, bang, i hit the ground. when caught on camera: heart stoppers continues. our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn t need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed.
maybe too high because the truck kind of like vaulted and hit the other mound and did a catapult-type deal. seconds later, the driver emerges. are you all right? i was amazed to see that the trucker was okay. after the truck flipped in the air like that. to see him walking around right after that accident just amazed me. i saw the blood on his head and i screamed if he was all right. are you all right? sir, you all right? other than a superficial head wound, the driver appears unharmed. the truck carrying a load of tire rims is demolished. two passing motorists stop to help as rob does what any tv news cameraman would, keep rolling. your eye s all screwed up.