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Originally Posted by NJSPEEDER
i watched 3 people die one night in philly. tell me again street racing doesn't kill.
there is a time and reason many people leave the streets for the track. hopefully you will figure it out before you are the statistic.
want some of teh good ones you can be a part of?
you are 7 times more likely to crash racing on the street than on a track
you are 26 times more likely to suffer serious or fatal injuries
medical assistance at an average race track in this country is on the vehicle in under 1 minute, on the average street in this country help is over 7 minutes away. crash at excessive speeds and you will learn very quickly what 6 minutes is worth
yup, doesn't hurt a soul does it?
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I think his point is street racing if not done without COMPLETE disregard for public saftey is not that dangerous. Those statistics are probably compiled from people street racing in general and most of those statistics come from people doing it on crowded streets. Let's use another example, firing ranges. You go to a firing range and you shoot in a safe organized environment (track situation). So long as you aren't a complete idiot everyone should be safe and you are not putting yourself or anyone else in danger. Say you walk out into the middle of your local city on a long straight street and you start shooting at a target 150yds out. This is not at a range and it is highly dangerous because the area is not controlled and you are posing a great danger to others (street racing on a public street). The sheer fact of your shooting in that type of situation is causing a danger that you can't control. Now say you go out into a desert where nobody is around, you don't have 100% control over the environment but for all intents and purposes you know you can control it. Now you are not at a range, and it is not "organized" or set up into lanes perse, but it is relatively safe and you are not creating a danger for those around you becaues you are taking reasonable precautions to ensure you are safe (street racing like was busted in s. jersey). They were not zipping in and out of traffic they were running on a halfway controllable environment, a speeder on a normal road would pose more of a REALISTIC threat to public saftey than the actions of these individuals. Not saying that what they did was right or legal, but I'm just pointing something out, though I completely agree with the whole medical attention thing.