[dfuzioniag]

Poor guy [no]

It just shows how incredibly dangerous that sport is. I give those bastards credit.

[MwhwF6bp]

I heard about it on the news.

That video is awful to watch, that is one hell of an impact at that speed.

I'll be honest, I'm amazed there aren't more of these types of accident in that event.

[jPNy2BP5]

well at least he went quickly,

[Maphpseurse]

well at least he went quickly,

Yup... about 90 miles per hour.
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[jPNy2BP5]

Yup... about 90 miles per hour.

Not really funny TBH [yes]

[Maphpseurse]

They're talking about making the track slower now. Is that the right thing? I mean, are they going to mandate maximum speed limits now for lugers? Which would eventually eliminate record breakers?
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[Stetbrate]

Having huge metal girders on the side of the track is a recipe for disaster and this unfortunate fellow found out, looks like a broken neck.

They do say the mind shuts off just before death, so hopefully he was unconscious when he hit the girders.

Should really have either crash mats there or a safety net, although not a wire one as they'd come through as chips at that speed.

I've slid down a newly gravelled road on my ar$e at 90mph from my bike, I was young and stupid, But my full leathers saved my bum meat and I didn't hit anything, a sign or wall would have killed me dead like this guy though.

[layedgebiamma]

No need for crashmats or netting. Just make the bloody walls higher FFS [cursing]

[Stetbrate]

No need for crashmats or netting. Just make the bloody walls higher FFS [cursing]

Why not just make it into a cylinder of walled ice, with camera's secreted behind glass panels in the roof and floors, maybe even panels of perspex so the photographers could still take photos, Its got to be better than bloody girders and seeing some poor ******* die!

[jPNy2BP5]

they should design it like a log flume but with a high tensile mesh over the top of the run

[Stetbrate]

they should design it like a log flume but with a high tensile mesh over the top of the run

A large ice version of this is what I'm on about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhAjQVWlew

But without the smarmy git riding it.

[jPNy2BP5]

A large ice version of this is what I'm on about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAhAjQVWlew

But without the smarmy git riding it.

problem is with a totally enclosed tube you will get a build up of pressure at the front end of the luge and then a vaccume behind it causing it to not travel as fast just leave them as is but place a Mesh lid over the top in places where this can accident can happen that allows spectators and media to view and then leave the straits and shallow curves as is

[ViagraFeller]

They're talking about making the track slower now. Is that the right thing? I mean, are they going to mandate maximum speed limits now for lugers? Which would eventually eliminate record breakers?

I don't know but this is apparently the fastest track in the world. Where other tracks have small flat or even uphill sections this one is all downhill. They already received so many complaints from the competitors that they had to adjust one turn they had started calling 50/50.

[maclaudser]

Tragic, indeed - go out to have fun and die - however, may have been preferable for the chap than being paralysed or maimed for life.
Apparently there was a low or missing section of the barrier at the top of the corner and a unprotected post - it was sadly a design and maintainance error.

[yK2VgoEI]

You'd think that they would use some common sense. The track is just feet away from those steel columns. What happened to safety first? Those columns should have been padded in the first place. It may or may not have saved this guys life, but because there was no protection, all we can assume is that there could have been a possibility of survival if those were padded.

His insides must be all messed up. 90mph to 0mph in an instance! Freaking Crazy.
Will pray for his family tonight.

Im glad though that his team is still racing. Would suck if they got pulled.

[untostaronaf]

I dont care what they do but they can make it safer thats for sure. Those columns are just waiting for trouble.

[ChicasCams]

It was such a violent smash I really don't think he would have suffered for more than a slit second, if at all. I think the only answer is to keep the lugers on the track rather than padding obsticals off track. It takes some kind of wake up call like this for people to realise. That said, they've gone ahead anyway. Have they modified the track at all?

[Abebpabeniemo]

Does anyone have a link that works in Germany ?

[Nothatspecial]

Does anyone have a link that works in Germany ?

YouTube doesn't work in Germany?

[Abebpabeniemo]

YouTube doesn't work in Germany?

Yes it does, but the Youtube isn´t allowing me to see the vid (something about Youtube rule violations)