Raceway burn victim's family seeks tough safety rules

Ridiculous that they're not wearing Nomex out there already.

It's ridiculous that this is even an issue. When you drive around smashing into each other, you have to expect that there's a good possibility you might get hurt.

Duh.

LMAO, this has to be the funniest crap I herd today. The family of the kid [ who by the way let their son drive head first into other cars for fun ] thinks that the track should mandate fire suits, lol. Sounds like the makings of a law suit to me. Guess it was the tracks fault that the kid got hurt right?

Give me a break, any moron who smashes into other cars for fun gets what they get. Hey victim of the family I got some advice for you. If you really want your son safe don't let him race in crash-up derbys,lol.

Play with fire and your gonna get burned sooner or later, lucky the kid isn't dead.

I know that the races, rollovers & demos are "at your own risk" but you would think the track would have better safety equipment on hand. Having spectators throw their bottles of water on the track to help extinguish a driver just seems wrong!

Christie Brinkley is a moron. Typical aging old broad who looks like a psycho in her pictures. Supermom lmao. Yea , this is great for your kids loser. Why no posts allowed for her court hearings ??? B S once again.

They are also proposing that boxers wear suits of armour so that no one gets hurt. In another initiative, from now on porno movies will not feature any sex.

My momma used to say, "White trash is what white trash does."

My momma used to say "whyte trash is what whyte trash does".

Can't believe that WHITE and TRASH is censored.

Driver COULD have worn flame resistant suit, but chose NOT to. Now his family thinks otherwise.

Any racing sport, whether stock car, demolition, drag strip or otherwise, has it's inherent dangers. But it's the thrill of not only winning the race, but dodging those dangers that make people want to do it.

I feel bad that this guy got burned. I do hope and pray that he recovers 100% and one day looks back on this day and says "I sure was lucky that day".

No one forced him to wear protective gear or design the vehicle so that it wouldn't leak fuel and explode. But he could have done it on his own. Just like an adult has an option to wear a bicycle helmet - or not. You make your choices, and sometimes those choices have unexpected consequences.

You would think common sense would tell the drivers of these vehicles to wear as much protective gear as feasible. Yeah, it can be hot in the summer wearing those suits - but as we can see, it can be hotter not wearing them.

As for more "rules and regulations" - here we go again, trying to make the government think for us, telling us the obvious, and putting the burden of responsibility not on the person but on the system. I am sure that the owners of Riverhead Raceway are concerned over this incident, and certainly didn't want anyone to get hurt. But do they need to spell out every little detail for the drivers - especially when you knowingly drive a vehicle with the intent to ram it and smash it into others, until only one is left running?

Forget the lawsuit. Stick to common sense. And be more careful next time.
Hopefully other drivers will learn from this and voluntarily wear more safety gear.

Jimmy, get well soon. And don't be afraid to get back in the saddle again!!

Get rid of those global warming gas guzzling demo cars and use only Flintstone mobiles. Then nomex will be no issue. Sarcasm Off.

What's really needed there is a properly dressed rescue crew. Those guys and their little extinguishers looked like the Keystone fire department.

If his mother & sister are so concerned buy him the suit and make him wear it. Its always some else's fault. Mom & sis are believers because there son/brother was reckless and now they want rules to mandate something that anyone in the business knows is smart business - safety. Mom I hope there's no money in this for you. You were probably watching - shame on you

"If they were mandatory this little boy might not be here today,"

Since when is 19 a little boy? Little boys aren't allowed to drive.
These woman should try wearing one of those suits on a hot summer night. These guys aren't getting paid to be sweaty and uncomfortable. They just want to have a good time and know all about the dangers. If it's such a big deal, let them pay for a Halon system in his next car.

Uh oh, here come the anti racing police. The type of people that think watching Oprah is fun and spank the monkey for enjoyment.

These are the same people that think you are wh!te tr@sh for shopping at JCPenny's and not at Fortunoffs.

I'm sure they want Riverhead Raceway closed now because "it's dangerous" all of a sudden now that it's in Loserday.

Hey, lets ban anything that has to do with horses because Christopher Reeve fell off a horse once and became a quadraplegic......

So then why didn't he just wear a suit?

Prince of Mastic Beach wrote:

My momma used to say "whyte trash is what whyte trash does".
Can't believe that WHITE and TRASH is censored.

Welcome to the world of Communism in America. Newsday is about as bad as it gets.

TIJUANA, Mexico Police on Monday found six charred bodies on a Tijuana street following a bloody weekend that left 14 people dead.
Assistant Baja California state attorney Salvador Ortiz said the six unidentified men were shot dead early Monday morning and their corpses set on fire.
The state attorney's office also reported another eight men killed over the weekend in separate attacks.
One of burned bodies had been handcuffed, while others had their heads wrapped in plastic bags, Ortiz said.
A Tijuana police officer is the chief suspect in a triple shooting over the weekend.
Also Monday, police in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa found the decapitated body of a man wrapped in a tarp and dumped on a street in the city of Culiacan. The head and a threatening note were found nearby inside a plastic bag, said a state police official on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak about the case.
Ten decapitated bodies, including Monday's victim, have been found throughout Culiacan in the past week.

Prince of Mastic Beach wrote:

My momma used to say "whyte trash is what whyte trash does".
Can't believe that WHITE and TRASH is censored.

I cant believe you werent!