Spectators Sprayed With Burning Fuel During Burnout Competition, 12 Injured
Warning: The video below contains scenes some may find distressing
12 people have been left injured following a terrifying flash fire at the Red CentreNATS show in Australia’s Northern Territory.
The incident occurred during a burnout display on Sunday afternoon, which saw a car spray burning fuel into a crowd of spectators. 11 of the 12 injured spectators were taken to hospital.
One 47-year-old man suffered critical injuries, with burns to 20 per cent of his body. The man’s 19-year-old son is among the eight people said to be in a stable condition in hospital as of Monday morning.
In a statement, the event’s organisers said: “This is a distressing situation, however all patients are receiving the care they need.” The competition was cancelled immediately after the fire, and police are currently investigating what went wrong.
A great deal of us take huge pleasure from attending car events, so it’s disheartening to see one end like this. Here’s hoping for a speedy recovery for all those involved.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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that comment is sopposed to be depresing
Not cool bro
Good comment(sarcasm)
But you did it on a bad mood, or I could say wrong time
no
I’m totally fine with edgy jokes and I don’t mind ‘em whatsoever, but I just wanted to say that your joke could’ve been formulated a bit better
One thing I think we can all be happy about is the positivity of some of the patients that recognized that this was perhaps an inevitable accident and the positive attitude the recovering patients have. I only wish them a speedy recovery and hope that positivity stays strong
One should always attend knowing that they may not make it home. Anything motorsport related has always been risky for participants and spectators alike, it’s always unfortunate when something like this happens. It may induce better spectator safety in the future
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Watchmojo made a video about anti-lag? If so I definitely wanna watch him attempt to explain what anti-lag is but fail terribly lmao
Hahaha. Nice one
Nice to see someone who thinks it’s completely mature to post something stupid in a post explaining how 12 people were badly hurt
Those cars have engaged (insert triggering joke here ) mode
Hail?!?!?
And thats why you dont do burnouts a couple of feet from a crowd. Glad to hear there wasnt any serious burns from that
this was literally a burnout competition
Saw it on the news today. They should install concrete barriers or something similar solid for future events to avoid this happening again. It would be better for flames to shoot directly up than underneath the barrier and into the crowd
yes but the flames then would get into peoples faces and that is worse than it just on your legs
Enter your comment…
Looks pretty lit
i know its your first comment but try doing it on a different post… not this one with injured people
Hope those people are okay
Why downvotes?
Wow… a comment like yours wishing them a speedy recovery gets downvoted while the immature ones get upvoted. I’m glad CT has mature people like you though
Petrol still better than EVs, being electrify it’s worster…
what? being electrify???
“Worster”?
Saw this on the news yesterday…. hopefully everyone makes a speedy recovery