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Originally Posted by The Producer
not much of a tale. watched him go down the opening straight - other groups have a tight slalom to keep it slow, but we only had 1-2 kinks. he lost it and went left - all the way left towards the river. He could easily have been in the drink if he didn't get into the equally sketchy stumps they left after cutting down the trees at the end of the run. Started running towards it as soon as it happened but organizers kept us away.
Shut us down for an hour? ambulance came. Guy never came back to the pits - don't really blame him. 30 people watched him fuck up pretty badly. Car was taco'd when it went by on the wrecker.
Did you ever hear how it went with insurance? Technically BMW cones days are driving training - in theory you have coverage. Reality is he didn't have a co driver/trainer and just bought it. It was a wet/cold day mid April IIRC.
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yeah he got insurance to cover it thankfully. Unfortunately ICBC only gave him like 10k for his IS300 (manual, 1 owner, low KMs... like less than 100k) which I thought was ridiculous as that's not market value. But he took it, didn't fight them for more money because I think he just wanted this whole thing over with. Can't blame him, he's pretty shook up over the thing and he didn't even drive for 4 months after the accident. I think some PTSD or something.
