Injured Rider

[Gixxerblade]

Any info on the injured rider from Saturday mornings lightweight practice at VIR?

[jclark]

Just to update you on the injured rider.  His name is Dennis Crowley, he was life flighted to Duke University Medical Center.  He has lost his right arm due to the contact with the guardrail, and has suffered a major head injury.  As of September 28th he is still in a coma like state, and has not been conscious since the incident.  His friends and family have been holding vigil at the hospital ever since.  Currently he is in the Duke University ICU in Durham, North Carolina.

[Stinger562]

 :'(Damn,damn,damn :'(

[Suzy]

He has lost his right arm due to the contact with the guardrail, and has suffered a major head injury.

No airfence or anything where he crashed?  :(

[PJ721]

nope - no airfence/tires/haybails....nada...just guardrail.

[Suzy]

I hope they are going to take care of that problem for next year, have not worked at that track yet.

I hope he gets better. :(

[Dawn]

Prayer's to him and his family......

[Suzy]

I say we have an auction just to earn money for more airbags.  ;)

[dsting]

Such a terrible thing.  I pray he has a full and speedy recovery.

As for air fence, from the reports I've read he went down on the left side of the straight between T6 & T7 before the bridge.  T6 and a portions of the straight have tires in front of the armco barriers, but the middle portion of the straight has bare armco on the left.

[cardzilla]

Can we be sure to get a sticky up here when a donation fund gets set up for Dennis.  I still remember tooling around on a ysr - 50 with him way back in the day.  Please pray for his recovery, every little bit helps.

[Thumper881]

 :( Thanks to Bill D. fellow racers donated close to 3k. I'm not sure if Bill's still collecting donations. I'm still having nitemares over the whole thing. :(

[PolishPete]

That is so sad...I pray he is allright.  Any idea why he crashed??  Will they fix the course to make it safer??  I hope to God he's going to be ok.