DO NOT STAND NEAR THE WATER BOX
NO ONE, and i mean no one should be standing by the water box when a car is in it. :shock:
Case in point, it happened at Twin Cities La. Just last sat. nite (6/20/2009) a person i know and am friends with the family, they all race.
At Twin Cities, there's a small area next to the tower about 10ft wide that's paralell to the water box that's fenced (not on the track surface).
O'k back to the incident, a lady was standing in this area watching. My friend with a 100% certified Mustang tube chassis car, big blk ford, runs 5 teens. This car is 100% certified NHRA all safty equipment in place. Runs a Lenco with a converter steel lined bell housing, block saver plate, flywheel sheild outside the bell housing. Starts cleaning off the tires, the starter ring gear broke in pieces, cut a 2 ince hole in the bell housing and the flywheel sheild, cut the frame in half, one piece hit his foot, not seriously hurt, 2 pieces flew 10 ft, thru the chain link fence and hit the lady, one piece went thru her hand breaking a cell phone which she was holding by her leg, cut a gapping hole in her leg close to the main artery, it was said if she wasn't holding the cell phone the metal piece would have for sure severed the main artery. EMT's are on location at the track (NHRA track) Paramedics had to be called in from Monroe for help and transport to hosp. The lady is in bad shape, last i heard she was transported to Shreavesport hosp. later.
Now i was not at the track sat. nite, so all this was relayed to me by people who was, i also talked to my friends cousin which is the person who owns the 55 shoebox that i've posted here on RJ before.
I expect the Twin Citie will now put up plywood so no one can be standing it the area where the lady was standing.
If this is not enough reason to not be near a water box i can't think of any.
Maybe the person who posted the original thread can copy and paste this post to the other forum where the stupid argument came from.
Zip. :shock: