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‘Wasn’t Anything He Could Do to Stop It’: ‘Monster Truck’ Crashes Into the Stands, Sending 3 to the Hospital

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An out-of-control monster truck crashed into the stands during a race in Oregon Saturday, injuring three people who were sitting alongside the dirt track, KVAL-TV reported.

The three people hurt at the outdoor Harrisburg MotorSports Complex were taken to a hospital in nearby Eugene with non-life-threatening injuries.

According to KVAL, the driver of the truck told Linn County Sheriff’s Office deputies the back wheels of his Ford truck spun out in a mud hole, causing the vehicle to fishtail and run toward the stands. The front of the truck went over the barricade into three spectators seated in folding chairs.

“There wasn’t anything he could do to stop it,” Dan Mills, the owner of the complex who was serving as the announcer, told the Associated Press. “This was my worst fear – what happened … It was the freakiest thing I’ve ever seen.”

Mills said he had been in touch with the three victims, whose names were not immediately released. He told the AP they included a father and son and a man thought to be in his early 20s.

He said the truck did not actually run over any of the spectators but that the front end only “pushed them back.”

“I think they just basically got hit by the front of the truck,” he said.

Onlooker Dustin Earls captured the incident on video and told CNN he thought at first it was just part of the show.

“The truck got a little wild and he hit the mud pit,” he said. “I thought, ‘This guy’s just messing around; he’ll hit his brakes right here.’”

But that didn’t happen; the truck instead went careening into the spectators. Earls said the driver of the truck immediately jumped out to see if anyone was hurt.

“He wanted to know if everything was okay,” he said. “He was so concerned. He said, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe what happened.’”

Comments (20)

  • stinkydroolface
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 7:28pm

    Need more snow fencing.

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 2:41am

    Did you see that???? That truck bent my lawn chair and spilled my beer.

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  • MrKnowItAll
    Posted on September 3, 2012 at 12:17am

    Now whenever I see or hear CNN. I think…“Are we living in a World now where you feel you must tell Everyone your Sexual Preferences”?

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  • samtree
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 11:18pm

    Good Lord that idiot made the same mistake 4 times. I would have moved my chair after the first time.

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  • tajloc
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 7:35pm

    Here’s some news…Yesterday 100 million gunowners in the US did not shoot anyone. Pretty cool.

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  • davidjbloom93
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 6:21pm

    Typical crap footage from some cell phone superhero. These idiots need to leave photo/video joournalism to the pros. Countless times on TV news programs or online they claim to have exclusive footage and it ends up being cell phone video of ridiculous quality of peoples feet while running away ( this video is evidence and typical) or the sky or other nonsense that proves to be of NO REAL VALUE to the viewer. If you dont have the balls to stand there and record the carnage and damage and injuries, then dont bother. leave real photojournalism to the pros. QUIT WASTING MY TIME !!!! ITS ALL ******** !!!!

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  • TheMajority
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:41pm

    2.5 tons of moving metal can be hard to stop or change direction when in fast motion. How hard is it to stop or change direction of our nation, which is also moving in a dangerous direction?

    The 2-party system could have well been driving that truck.

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:25pm

    it doesn’t look like the drive tried to do anything to avoid hitting the stands. something isn’t right there

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    • rcw_68
      Posted on September 2, 2012 at 5:45pm

      Nah…just that the truck was going too fast and being so close to the spectators, there was no time to react. He obviously did stop it or it would have been a whole lot worse. Hope everyone makes it ok.

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  • nobull14
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 4:19pm

    Reminds me of a Dukes of Hazzard episode ?. sorry people got hurt .

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  • RinkyDink34
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:31pm

    Damn That George Bush!

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  • TikeSissy
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 3:11pm

    Reminds me of my mother-in-law pulling into the driveway. You never know WHICH way to run….

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  • Aceofshades
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:43pm

    My home town finaly made it to the news!

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:42pm

    hey look that big truck is coming at us,man what cool seats, do ya thank we should move,naw i aint losing my great seat or my beer. is that mud in your pants or is that **** ?? should throw the beer down and run or roll out of the way,

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  • Oneirishman
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:19pm

    Yesterday a plane flew over my house, fortunately it did not crash into my house. A neighbor, who also witnessed the plane, confirmed for CNN that it did not crash into my house, but landed at a nearby airport.

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  • banjarmon
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 2:13pm

    Time to change the shorts!!

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  • RANGER1965
    Posted on September 2, 2012 at 1:53pm

    I guess the best seats in the house are not always in the first row.

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