Yellow River Drag Strip Disaster 1969
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- Опубліковано 20 жов 2024
- On the 2nd of March, 19 69, Yellow river was the scene of the deadliest motorsport accident in the history of the United States of America.
Sources
Motorsport Memorial www.motorsportm...
Henry Ball - The Southern Voice thesouthernvoi...
Jim Hall - MOTORTREND www.motortrend...
Andrew Wolf - DRAGZINE www.dragzine.c...
Tommy Lee - Lost Drag Strips www.musclecard...
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Long Note One - Kevin MacLeod - (incompetech.com) - Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 - creativecommons....
Correction: At the end of the video I stated that Houston died aged 51 when he was actually 81. This was an error on my part and I do apologise.
Born November 16th 1932, died November 30th 2011. Making him 79 when he died.
Another correction, for anyone curious. Kenneth Jerry Stowe (my great-uncle) was 19, not 26, when he passed.
I survived Yellow River thanks to my dads fast reaction time as the Dixietwister came across the back end of my dads truck. He threw me to the ground between our truck and the car next to us and he was knocked out and laying over the stepside fender. The car hit the man standing next to us in the bed of the truck and killed him. I woke up in the bed of pickup with my grandfather holding me and my dad knocked out and bloody along with a few others on the way to the hospital. I was 6 yrs old. Years later my grandfather told me he found me covered with a coat. Someone covered me thinking i was dead because i was covered in blood from my dad bleeding from his head just above me. Not a single day has gone by since that day that I haven't thought about Yellow River Dragstrip and those 12 who lost their lives. That day is burned into my soul and I'm sure it's the same for many others.
Oh my god that sounds awful.
I am not sure what brought me here, but great video!
i live down the road about 2 miles away and one of my friends used to live in that neighborhood, im just now finding this out. wild story
The old Lakeland strip in Memphis was like this.
You can still view this drag strip from satellite however, they’ve since turned the drag strip into a mobile home park. Such a terrible tragedy I can’t imagine going out like that 😢
Modified comaro--- nothing on that car that was a real comaro. You must be British.
And you must be illiterate...Camaro
P.S. In 1969, there's a pretty good chance that there were many "stock" parts on that Camaro, and not "one off" custom pieces...
Thanks for sharing
Safety regulations always seem to be written in blood.
Always...
Yep. Same thing for workplace safety regulations; they’re all written in the blood of workers.
So, Houston was 9 years old when he was racing?
Sad day for drag racing
That's got to be one haunted ass trailer park
Thousands of people have died at hospitals, circumstance, accidents, murder, etc. Yet hospitals aren’t roaming with “ghosts”. Which of course don’t exist. Try not to perpetuate nonsense.
Naw it’s pretty chill
I lived in Atlanta at the time and was invited to the race by a friend and his dad. My mom would not let me go. If my memory serves me correctly, a little girl was sitting on her dad's shoulders while he was standing in the bed of his pickup truck, and she was decapitated. I barely remember. Was my mom bullshitting me, or did this really happen. God rest their souls.
Five of us were there, crossing the track several times between races. We were on pit side and was standing in what we thought was a good spot, till some drunks started acting up. We moved and it was fortunate, because that was where he started veering right to overcorrreect for the other driver crossing over his lane, on this narrow track. It was 2 hours before we could leave, asthey were using trucks and vans taking the injured to the hospital. I think about 11 dead and 45 injured
It said Houston continued racing and died in 2011 at the age of 51. That would have made him around 9 years old the day of the accident
Makes you wonder if being that young might have played into the incident. Does give some credence to the idea that people back then always looked older.
Yes, I should have said 81 not 51. I'm not sure how that mistake got passed me.
Sincerely, thanks for spotting it.
God bless all Involved & Peace to those people not here anymore what a Tragedy!!! So Sad. ❤️
Since the fatal motorsports channel was taken down, there is no known footage of the accident. I dont remember, does the real footage actually cut off when the people were hit or did it go further. I dont want to seem like a gore seeker but this may count as lost media.
The channel that I got, which as far as I can tell is also gone, has a news commentator talking over it. This footage pauses at the moment of impact with the crowds. whether or not the original footage kept going, I don’t know.
@@DayOfDisaster I think that is all there is on the internet. The footage afterward is lost media (thankfully or not, I am not in a position to decide) and also there is a second elusive view. I saw it on a compilation before I knew about the crash (I was also 12 so I didn't look at fatal crashes so I left quickly) but I cannot find it again, mabye the video was removed.
Yea I don't get why they (you tube) try to hide reality. It's stupid, really.
@@erpfanatic6586 It's interesting that every video containing the accident has been wiped for reasons "not involving" the crash in the last year or two. Though this one remains. The videos/channels were taken down for good reasons but it's just that this crash is always a victim of these bans. Luckily this channel is pretty good at making sure to stay within UA-cam's "child friendly" policies (they have UA-cam kids just use it) so I don't think it will be truly lost. Also from my research this is the only place you can find footage of this, Day Of Disaster got this from another video which was deleted (I saw the same version not long before FMC's termination) with the news commentator. But prior to that I saw another view without commentation with only silence/static noise and it faced the area of the crowd more directly and more zoomed in (oddly well positioned) which was on a drag racing crashes compilation which I saw in mid 2022 (or potentially early 2021).
It's really odd :/
My grandfather told my mom about this incident.
Check out the dork-o-motive podcast by Brian Lohnes. He does a great job covering this incident.
I was Not There That day @ 12 Yr Old dad said Not Today but I could Here All This in My back n Yard That Last day ...As We Lived Only Les than A 1/3 Mile Away As The Crow Fly's ...As We Could here All Loud Clear Every Race day ....Terrible Day for All There ..".RIP " OMG & Bless All l For the Horrors Of All The Family & Survivors After ..
I was there that day, and it was already a mobile home park. It was sso.etbing I will never forget