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On me. mike s sprint car lands right side up and immediately bursts into flames, but he s trapped in his seat soaking in gasoline as the fire quickly surrounds him. i started breathing in pretty heavy amounts of fire. after a while my belts melted so i couldn t get them off. so i m just thinking i m probably going to die in this race car. raceway firefighters austin kingry and shane spaulding witness the crash directly in front of them. but they must watch helplessly as the flames envelope the car. had to pause there and wait for the rest of the field to go by. it seemed like forever that we had to stand there. watching this wreck made your heart drop into your chest because you know that both those drivers were in danger. you could see the car shaking and hear mike screaming in the car. so i knew if we didn t react with enough time and get there fast enough, that it was going to turn into a fatality. the track clears as shane and austin race across to reach mike. ....
Accident. workers rush to contain contaminated water and other chemical to prevent them from running off into sewers. they ll be there for a good while trying to make this back into an inert, safe area and once again to conduct operations. weeks after the fire, the town returns to its daily routine. but this horrific industrial accident won t be easily forgotten. now, it s just a bunch of charred remains. and it smells quite bad. i think it s going to take quite a while for them to clean this up. and it s just an absolute disaster there. i feel a bit bad for the people that lived closer than we do because it reeks. coming up a day at the races brings one driver to the edge of death. ....
Arms of friends and family, it turns out kevin s little tire snag probably saved his life. you know, i would have to say that if kevin had cleared that cable and he d sailed on out of the racetrack, he probably had a 20 or 25-foot drop to the other side. with that momentum and that speed, it is quite entirely possible that he could have made the parking lot and it could have been a much worse accident than it actually was. after kevin s out of the car, it s no small affair to untangle the mess. one of the track workers actually had to take that tire off. he actually had to physically take the tire off to unstring the car. and what we did, we took a bucket loader and lifted the car up to take the tension off of that cable. and that was what freed the car eventually. ....
oh, my god. my god. caught on camera: thrills and spills. thrill seekers have so many ways to pump up the adrenaline. racing cars, four wheeling through canyons, parachuting from bridges, you name it and the daring will try it. but when something goes wrong, the result can be terrible. is a near fatal injury worth the high? watch and you ll see that for some folks, risk is its own reward. in perris, california, sprint car racer kevin white takes a turn for the worse. his car flips over and launches him 25 feet in the air, landing ....
A race car driver hits the wall. he s out! he s out. a kite boarder slams into steel poles. it felt like i got hit by a truck. motorcycle riders scrape the street. whoa! super athletes push the limits. i just remember hitting the horse. oh, good heavens! and a huge amount of pain. daredevil goes for broke. i practically almost died jumping off this bridge. and a family goes over the edge. ....