New details emerge in deadly crash at Silver Lake Sand Dunes

New details have emerged in a deadly crash at Silver Lake Sand Dunes. (June 21, 2024)

[@spatulaman2753]

This whole thing is terrible buuut, if you’re hanging out that close to the track area you’re not being that safe.

[@culcune]

Especially with kids. Without barriers separating the drag strip boundaries from the spectators, I can imagine it would have only been a matter of time before young kids got away from the watchful eyes of adults and darted onto the track in front of the racers. Even without that, the mother heroically pushed her daughter out of the way of the out of control racer, and the witness interviewed above showed her husband and son sitting in the danger zone but happened to drive off right before this tragedy. Whichever government agency oversees this recreational area needs to set up those concrete Jersey barriers as the track boundaries to help reduce the possibility of an out-of-control racer causing another tragedy in the future.

[@robertperry7343]

If mechanical throttle linkage it's is possible to get stuck wide open. Had it happen when i got on it big time and left motor mount broke jamming wide open. This was also a Jeep. Luckily i had mind set after initial panic to shut engine down just before disaster. Had the old lady screaming good on that one; heck i may have also 😅

[@traybern]

The WORD is IMPOSSIBLE, DUMBBELL! !

[@basketballcinemas]

@@traybernyea expect that’s not impossible

[@robertperry7343]

​@@basketballcinemasThanks for exposing the real dumbbell😂

[@FJB8646]

@@traybernyou have no idea what you’re taking about. Shut up.

[@THATFASTSUPRA]

I’ve had this happen on a Camaro, but it was simple and we turned the key off..and there goes acceleration to throttle and apply your brakes. Just don’t know if this happened at the last second but you’re supposed to look ahead but I wasn’t in the seat so it’s easy to make a judgment call, sitting behind a computer versus sitting behind the wheel. My heart goes out to the people and family who lost their daughter, Wife and mother.

[@garrettburrows442]

Ive have throttles stick and all of a sudden its unstuck, that peddle setup looked janky, also drag racing and no kill switch?

[@FJB8646]

Do you have any idea what you’re talking about?😂

[@garrettburrows442]

@@FJB8646 yeah I do, been in the business a long time, how long have you been on your knees slurping ? Like your momma?

[@garrettburrows442]

@@FJB8646 I bet you hawk tuah with the best of them🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😁😂😂🤣🤣😂

[@garrettburrows442]

@@FJB8646 you're sofa kingdom

[@dillondavis2550]

Another video from a different new source said the driver claimed he couldnt hit the kill switch on the dash. If it was my vehicle I’d personally want a kill switch set up like they have on jet skis, have a lanyard around your wrist and just yank your hand back to pull the kill switch, especially in on the dunes

[@stevenhard3961]

I had a Chrysler New Yorker that had a broken mount! One day while driving it went full throttle! Between breaking etc I managed to get it back to the house and up onto a dirt pile. I shut off the key and called a junker. The car had always been a repair problem constantly! Thank GOD my wife or children were not driving it!!

[@OregonCrow]

nobody cares old man.

[@badlyniceness2315]

You have your son in a racing vehicle …facing forward! That is horrific in itself…..it’s not being un lucky..it’s being reckless.

[@dillondavis2550]

Who had their son in a racing vehicle? The guy in the rzr in the picture next to the yellow Jeep was just a spectator, there’s nothing said about him racing with his son in the rzr. They weren’t even involved in the incident

[@max7143]

It should be the very first reaction to shut the engine off. No idea what happened here without footage.

[@vickielake7817]

First of all my condolences to the kent county sherrifs family and friends....iv been to Silver Lake sand dunes many a time racing my monster truck....i also used to go to mud runs and race as well. After an injury to a spectator at one of the big mudd runs, the owner of the course built barriers and a few small bleachers for spectators to watch the races....Nascar tracks, indy tracks, and road course tracks all have safety barriers in place for spectators to observe the races safely....this is a no brainer, install safe barriers for people to watch the drag racing at silver Lake sand dunes...and at a good safe distance from the track....i feel the state park has a hand in being at fault for not installing them sooner ....iv had throttle stuck wide open before a well...killed the motor to prevent injury to anyone ...SAFETY FIRST ALWAYS!!!! ❤❤

[@stevenhard3961]

This guy is SCREWED!!

[@culcune]

These aren't illegal street races, and mishaps occur all the time in motor racing, sometimes with very tragic results, unfortunately. Driver was not DUI. I do believe there should have been fencing, such as concrete Jersey barriers set up along the boundaries of the drag strip to offer some basic safety to spectators.

[@tenacietripeam-og7vc]

you mean scapegoat

[@douglaslane4480]

It may not be a mechanical issue with the vehicle. If the engine can pull enough cfm of air through the throttle plates , that can actually hold them open . Especially on big cubic inch engines.

[@justinharry100]

It's Michigan, of course the sheriff's dept will find a way to pin this all on the driver. When there should be a min 100 ft safety zone at least. You don't think sand or any other pieces of debris could have cause this issue. But to the sheriff's office they never see it that way. Sad situation all around

[@515ventures3]

how can you go 85 mph on sand!? People have a hard enough time going 85 mph safetly on the freeway.

[@FJB8646]

Seriously?😂

[@festungkurland9804]

LOL YOU CAN SEE THE PART OF THE THROTTLE CABLE THAT GOT HUNG UP RIGHT THERE GAAHHH COPS ARE SO INCOMPETENT

[@7080nik]

The only reason the cable is sagging is because the guy is working it by hand instead of the accelerator pedal. The butterflies could have jammed at the fully wide open position but, there is enough spring there to return it besides all the vibration from the motor and the bouncing on the track.

[@JJordan1012]

Man, this is a tough one. R.I.P to the lady who died a hero.

[@matthewsmith5109]

Concrete barriers on both sides of strip

[@tenacietripeam-og7vc]

it was racing, the spectators should not have been that close with no barrier, if you want to blame or charge someone, blame the idiots who put the event on and the poeple who decided to put themselves in harms way, the driver is blameless

[@cody39yrs]

Exactly

[@turbodean4843]

There was no event it's just an open drag area on the flat area of the dunes, the drag strip location has also moves due to water, and sand conditions so it is hard to control, it's basically participate and spectate at your own risk, I been going since the mid 90s it's an accident they happen.

[@tenacietripeam-og7vc]

@@turbodean4843 that's not how America works anymore, there to be a victim, and there has to be someone to blame other than the victim, it's so infused into our psyche that even our politicians are always whining that they're victims

[@southwestndn8401]

Old man tried to lie his way out lock em up for lying to an officer

[@Kerry-fw6jt]

The track will be permanently closed due to liability concerns.

[@bcopley97]

Several things to point out here.... -- throttle sticking prolly can't be replicated now for several reasons.. one being the vehicle is NOT in operation , another being that the vehicle has been totaled. ---spectators shouldn't be much farther down track than 20 feet or so from the starting line.... ---- they are racing motorcycles against vehicles....this obviously shows a lack of intelligence among the race "organizers" ---- best thoughts for all involved , the deputies family, the driver of the Jeep, the witnesses

[@user-np9sl8de8t]

They make it sound like he did it on purpose ? Dont sit so close your asking for it

[@russellstewart5414]

Tragedy how ever you look at it. You think the driver would be remorseful and he may be, and this may stay with him forever or maybe not. If he races again will it affect his performance and will doubt always be there. As for spectators being to close , we have all seen this before, people want to get close up to the action and get closer and the next guy gets closer and soon you’lhave an entire row of vehicles inside the safety zone. What about just hitting the breaks or steering away or emergency shut off. Lots of variables.

[@sh0t0kan]

Stuck throttle makes you veer into other cars?

[@scottberry5266]

The whole silver lake scene is a chit show. Too many buggies and not enough room.

[@ronjohnson9032]

Didn't the governor shut racing down there a few years ago? Maybe it should have stayed that way. If it saves one life.........

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

A hood scoop on a jeep has to be the height of douchiness.

[@spatulaman2753]

You realize it was a race vehicle right, not a green Jeep?😊

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

@@spatulaman2753 Yes I could clearly see that.

[@whelmanlandry]

It’s a jeep thing

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

you must be a rainbow person

[@vihtoripuurola3775]

@@replynotificationsdisabled A hood scoop on a Jeep is a very rainbow thing. Love my 99 XJ, but would never put a hood scoop on it like some rainbow trash.

[@Odin33356]

💔

[@OregonCrow]

Her husband cry every night like boo boo baby

[@deborahbaker4770]

Well at least he wasn’t impaired but still I’m sad for that family 😢 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@slydoggish]

The driver is lying ! You didn't think he was going to tell the truth !!!

[@moosetracks3720]

Shift it into neutral

[@user-gf1rm6dt9n]

That why there are barriers at real drag strips and spectators are not that close