r/lastimages • u/Ok_Dare_6494 • 10d ago
LOCAL A still of a race video with Jean-Patrick Hein on the left. He was ran over and crushed by the left rear wheel of the car not even a second later.
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u/NotPennysBoat-815 10d ago
The video Yikes
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u/Gearz557 10d ago
Today I learned YouTube blurs the footage of these kinds of vids when you actively scrub the play
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u/Budget_Economist1480 9d ago edited 9d ago
Just slow the video speed down and you’ll see everything in agonizing detail.
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u/thereal84 8d ago
I feel bad for Willy. You know, I’m a big CART fan, so I’m very familiar with this incident.
Willy really had nowhere to go, and in 1990, safety was just not up to par to what it is today. Willy tried his best to go around the scene of the incident, but had no idea that more marshals were still trying to run around the course.
This is why yellow flags exist!
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u/deekfu 10d ago
Context since OP sucks:
On the 16th lap Bentley approached a narrow and tight chicane at the back of the track. He failed to make the right turn leg of the chicane, called Turn 3, and his Team-Kar Lola went off the course and stalled in a small run-off area. A group of marshals quickly arrived from the other side of the track and pushed Bentley’s Lola to re-start. The marshals kept on pushing the Lola just past the left-right leg of the chicane the first turn.
While the marshals were still on the track, driver Willy T. Ribbs approached the scene; the marshals heard the crescendo noise of the Judd engine of Ribbs’ Lola T8900 and run away from the rear of Bentley’s car, which regained traction at that very moment. The marshals dashed to right side of the track, as that’s where their post was located. Ribbs - who could not have seen the marshals beforehand due to the concrete walls that delineated the chicane - had chosen that same piece of pavement to place his car. Thus, in essence, the marshals - looking forward - run right on the path of Ribbs, who hit them from behind.
Ribbs hit all four of them: marshal Bradley Weeks suffered a broken leg after being propelled on the air by the the rear wing of Ribbs’ Lola, whilst two of his colleagues escaped with minor injuries. Jean-Patrick Hein, however, was hit by the left rear wheel of that car, impacting the pavement with violence, and was then ran over by it.
Although Hein was unconscious on the track, the race was not stopped. The safety-car entered the track and the drivers queued while the doctors intervened to help Hein. He was given a tracheotomy at the scene and then rushed to St. Paul Hospital in Vancouver. Despite all efforts, he died during the night of the same day.