serious accident at the track

[BP-Revo]

For whatever reason, I was marshaling once at an indoor track (read: electric only) and one guy was flipped over, so I jogged over to his car and as I bent down to flip it, he gave it a burst of throttle. He wasn't revving it all before, but only just as I bent down.

I got a face full of dirt (a good bit in my eyes), and so I proceeded directly off the track.

There were about 10 people on the driver stand and I was the ONLY marshall (it was open practice). They weren't too happy at the guy (who by the way, is a complete ass for blipping the throttle on his ELECTRIC car...)

I've heard of an instance where someone was killed while marshaling. A 1/8 scale buggy nailed the guy in the temple off a large triple and he was dead before he hit the ground.