Re: Another Racer Killed at E-Town
Midway in Chicago is using the foam/concrete blocks at the end of the runway. They were installed after the plane overshot the runway, broke throug the fence, drove out onto a city street and killed a boy in a car on 55th Street which runs along the perimeter.
If they can stop a runaway airplane, and if the weight to crush equations could be worked out right (obviously a race car doesn't weigh as much as an airplane nor distributes it's weight the same way), this might be a viable solution. Obviously what some tracks are doing isn't working as planned. It's an unfortunate and costly game of trial and error.
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