Street Racing Kills!!

I am sure this will end up being Nationwide news---Just got home from work. Rt. 210 just over the Charles County line into PG County in front of the Beretta gun plant is where people have street raced for years. At least 8 people dead after racing incident gone really bad...Happened about 2 hours ago...As of right now, no news stations have reported anything, but the camera crews were starting to show up as I was leaving... Can't really say anymore than that for now....


Keep it on the track guys!!!

 

That's terrible news. Any updates?

 

Tragic. I'm sure the local news will put out the story first.

That many people killed must have been either the cars were full of passengers or maybe spectators were hit.

Robbie, you have a tough job. I'm sure you see crash scenes like the rest of us can't even imagine.

 

The story was just on NBC4 but they didnt have any pics from the scene. They reported it as 6 dead from a tractor trailer accident. They didnt mention street racing yet, I guess still to early. And it is the same accident, reported to have happened around 3:45 at 210/Pine Dr by Beretta.

 

Yea, they were talking this one up on WTOP on my drive to work at 5am this morning. They were saying 6-8 dead numerous cars and a tractor trailer, lots of medivac flights.

Robert

 

that is so tragic. As I've gotten older, I've stopped doing any stupid stuff on the street, but I remember being a kid and feeling invincible and doing stuff that was totally idiotic. I can only hope I do a better job getting my kids to understand the risks when they get to driving age....

 

Here is the WTOP news story on the crash:
http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=104&sid=1346511

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080216/ap_on_re_us/drag_racing_deaths


One must of made it---The Sgt on the scene was calling it out and said at first 8 people, the news is reporting 7 dead.

 

Yea, 3 helicopters landed. Bad thing about this is all the time, we have responded to crashes like this but never fatals up there... People have been drag racing there for over 20 years....

 

I was clearing part time and headed up there, we had numerous units on the scene. Our agency got there quicker than PG and MSP. The call went out around 2am or so...

 

Really sad story.

CW

 

Was the person driving the white Crown Victoria a Law Enforcement Officer? Very sad.

 

Huge news, 8 dead:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23194752/

 

No---just a guy coming home...All the smoke from the 2 cars racing clouded the roadway and he couldn't see..

 

I'd imagine that people standing in the middle of rt210 at 2am would be a bit unexpected, with or without the smoke.

 

Yes for sure, but it isn't a surprise--During the summer there are races out there almost every weekend...Been like this for at least 20 years...

 

They don't even set out "cop spotters"? -- Nobody noticed a Crown Vic come along?

 

Is this the reason for so many patrol cars around town these past a few days. I've been seeing so many police cars, it's crazy. I feel kinda safer honestly. Been getting great gas mileage too driving like a human rather a maniac.

On the story, Sad..

 

Not sure why more officers are in your area lately, can't imagine it was because of this..

 

The news reports have him not having his headlights on too, was this correct?

Another one happened in DE today:

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080216/NEWS/80216015

 

Lots of Blue Fairfax Police Cars on 28 (North / South), also near George Mason and loudoun county. P.S I think Fairfax county and Loudoun County's police car colors are the sexiest. White in Loudoun and Blue in Fairfax.

 

sometimes unless you close the road, put speed bumps every 100ft you cant stop ppl from racing...

and he said there was smoke so i dont think you could have seen a semi coming..

 

This made the news here in California as well.

 

If there is smoke and you can't see, don't you usually slow down or stop?? what is this?Days Of Thunder??
Why wouldn't he have his lights on at 2:00am?

Ron

 

i don't know the whole story, but if you are going 60mph (5mph over the speed limit) on a dark road with no street lights, you may come up on some smoke pretty quickly. Happens all the time in fog.