Recruiting Forum Football Talk VI

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June 11, 1955

The 1955 Le Man 24 Hours is remembered for only one thing: the worst accident in the history of the sport when a Mercedes-Benz sports car, driven by Frenchman Pierre Levegh, ran into the back of an Austin Healey, driven by Englishman Lance Macklin. The car flew over the barriers and disintegrated, sending wreckage into the packed area in front of the grandstands - at head height. At least 83 people were killed (including Levegh) and a further 120 were injured, many of them seriously. Today, the number of people who were killed remains uncertain (as there were so many people involved that they were taken to 11 different hospitals). Some of those who were injured did not survive.

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Holy crap that collision!
 
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