It seems its safer to race my Avanti over 200 mph than to cross the street on Wendover Blvd. Here is what happened to me (was doing the timing on courses 3 & 4) and Mike McQuire (was doing the inspection duties) on Thursday night at 09:20 PM after the SCTA?BNI banquet for race volunteers:
To All,
Just want to tell you that near the last days of helping put the race on at Bonneville, myself and a friend Mike got ran over in a cross walk in Wendover, Utah, the car hit us both at 20 mph, it spun us both in the air 5 ft above the car, then we both came down on the car and landed in the street. The guy driving never used his brakes, no skid marks. This happened last Thursday (8/16/12) at 9:30 PM after a dinner that SCTA put on for the 125 race volunteers that supported the race. The police arrived and the ambulance, they put me on a board and used a neck collar, then the ambulance took me 123 miles to Salt Lake City hospital, I was considered a trauma 2 category, so as soon as I got to the University of Utah hospital, they did a Cat scan and X-rays, then took me to the 6th floor, then after 8 hrs there, the surgeons looked at the results and told me no broken bones, no fractures, just muscle damaged to my left leg and I had a sore back. They released me around 3 PM and my friend Lee Kennedy drove me back to the motel where all the race crew stayed, then told them that I was OK. So now I'm on pain pills and have an doctor appointment this coming Thursday with my doctor at Kaiser. I still waiting for the police report so I can contact the driver who hit us, his insurance company so they can pay for the ambulance and hospital stay. So more to come, but its obvious the Lord really protected us both, guess He wants us to stick around some more, This sure scared my wife Barb, but I did call her while I was in the ambulance so she heard it from me and not from a stranger. Gosh, its safer for me to be driving my race car at over 200 mph than walking across a cross walk in town!!!
Take care, Dave
PS, the doctor said at age 73 I was in better shape than him!!