The Shell/Pennzoil Gran Prix of Houston was held this past weekend. Unless you are a die-hard fan of Indy Car racing, you probably don’t know that the race was won by a driver with the impressive but improbable name of Will Power.
There was a wreck at turn 5 on the next-to-last lap on Sunday. Dario Franchitti’s car went airborne and hit the fence scattering debris through the crowd and injuring 13 spectators.
Franchitti suffered a concussion, two fractured vertebrae and a broken ankle, but is expected to be OK.
Of course, this was big news on Houston media. It overshadowed a much worse incident that occurred at about the same time in Chihuahua, Mexico.
A Monster Truck event was being held in conjunction with an air show. A truck went out of control and drove through the crowd, killing nine and injuring seventy-nine people.
Witnesses say that as he drove over the junk cars, the driver’s head hit the inside of the cab hard enough to knock his helmet off. He may have been unconscious when he plowed into the spectators, but Mexican police arrested him and charged him with manslaughter. Additional charges may be filed against the event promoters.
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