@@dickJohnsonpeter no one set up the barriers with an expectation to stop the truck, they were placed there simply to keep people from getting into the zone.
So the stuntman goes to jail, but the guy who paid him to do it only gets a $25k fine for orchestrating the death of 3 people? Classic justice right there
Eh, how is that different from anywhere else? In the military if you are given an order that is wrong and you cary it out you will risk punishment more severely then the man giving you the order. Why? Because you always have the option to say no.
@@dickJohnsonpeterthe driver really can't help a mechanical failure, I worked in a garage for years, we had put brand new never used parts on vehicles at least once a week that were faulty from the supplier, that's not our fault, and the supplier would always make good on the faulty parts.
@@hastyhillfarmand4x480 I think the conviction was also based on his willingness to drive at all in a situation with such poor safety standards. That said, the event organizer is, IMO, much more responsible for keeping the crowd safe than the driver, so the difference in sentences still doesn't make much sense
This set up was tragedy in the making. There's a reason why monster trucks generally operate in well prepared large arenas with safety barriers and other measures. What a nightmare for those who witnessed this.
@@joshualund752 yup! usually in those tight stadiums everyone's sitting up and way back and they have stuff covering the lower rows/sections of seats as "catches" so it'll snare the truck up. it's crazy how much thought and effort goes into those stadium monster trucks to make it a safe show for everyone.
i went to a monster truck show and they spent almost half an hour testing various safety measures like remote engine killswitches. im amazed one wasnt used here
Imagine standing 10 metres away from that thing with your children and not feeling an immediate sense of danger. Just watching that build up made my blood run cold.
@@johnpublic6582 Or "Light fuse and RUN AWAY!!!" on fireworks 🤣 Also, sorry not sorry, in the case of fireworks, if you're dumb enough to not follow that label......well Im not convinced we need you in the gene pool.....Stupidity should be painful, its the only way some people will learn.
It's nothing short of amazing what crowd mentality will do to a person's sense of self preservation. No one would dare stand on a race track while cars are zipping around it at 150 miles per hour, but if you saw 2 people already standing on the track without a care in the world then surely it must be a safe place to stand and linger, right? No? Well imagine it's 100 people standing on that race track instead of 2. It's almost guaranteed the 101st person to approach and witness this gathering will see no reason to doubt that it's a safe place to sit down and have a picnic, regardless of every obvious indication of the dangers of doing so. Surely 100 people can't all be wrong about something so obvious, right? A false sense of comeraderie replaces all instincts of self preservation and the crowd grows larger.
Doesn't matter. In this case, the area wasn't big enough to safely host OR drive in. The speed at which this happened, and the closeness of all involved, means the kills switch is negligible. Even with a kill switch, it doesn't negate forward momentum enough to avoid what happened.
even with a remote kill switch, that wont stop 4 tons of weight going 15mph they needed to do this in a stadium with tall stands and plenty of room, like twice the amount this space has plus more as a braking area so they dont hit the stands, atleast not at full speed
I'm Dutch and totally forgot about this. It was absolutely ridiculous this was allowed to happen. It caused quite the political row because there was only a criminal charge for the driver but all those who allowed it got nothing but some scolding.
You'd think this would happen in a third world country, I hope that if I had been there, I would have realized the danger and moved away from the area, but maybe we trust that the people who stage it are not this incompetent and wreckless.
@@user-td4gh6kj2z 'Stichting' means organization, usually a non-profit one, so not a person. Could still be only 1 person connected to that organization but likely there's a few other people working there too.
I've worked with monster trucks as a pyrotechnican here in Australia. One thing I've come to realise is that Monster Trucks are an extremely unpredictable and dangerous vehicle. Every part of its construction is pushed to the physical limits and singular failures can lead to this kind of accident. Normally for dangerous vehicles you would expect redundancies to allow for a partial failures of a system to not be a catastrophic risk. I've seen Monster Trucks with remote shut down be remotely turned off by safely officers still continue to roll forward or hop due to its forward momentum even if the brakes are locked. Monster trucks should never be anywhere that doesn't have large concrete or weighted shipping containers barriers. They can easily push over and jump anything less than 6ft so minimum 10-12 ft barriers are a must.
Exactly !!! I wondered why the driver didn't just kill the ignition, assuming that it had one like it should. Race cars are required to have a kill switch onboard, though that is the limit of my experience since I have none with so-called "monster trucks"...
Exactly - the only places I've seen them in the US is inside an arena or stadium. There is the vertical separation you speak off from the stands to the event floor, and additionally, they don't allow any spectators in the lower sections.
There's a reason why most big shows block off a large amount of the front row seating, this video is a great example ruclips.net/video/vA3Db0Hgpao/видео.htmlfeature=shared
@@davidhollenshead4892 Well it happened so fast, he didn't know what was going on and didn't have time to diagnose it. There was not enough space between him and the crowd so he was focusing on trying to steer it elsewhere so as to not hit anyone. But really, nothing could have been done. It was only a few seconds to disaster, literally. But even without the glass in the fuel system the multiple and glaring safety breaches of the event itself was the real problem and something WAS going to go wrong. Poor truck driver. He shouldn't have accepted that job offer that day under those circumstances. Very risky. Like 100% risky!
How stupid do you have to be to not realize that this set up was a HORRIBLE idea. The distance between the truck and barrier was like 3 lengths of the truck.
I mean it is the Netherlands, go look up old Group B Rallies, you got a speeding car hoping hills and hitting corners, and all of the protection the public has is some tape, shit some of them tried to touch the car when it pass by
Welcome to dutch government. Where money is everything. And peoples lives and safety nothing. Local government and even national government has a track record of destroying peoples lives with callousness.
time and time again, the europeans cannot replicate american things, as they just see things at face value and deem it as stupid. Americans have decades of experience with all of this, and know all the ins and outs.
@@nickbob2003 had the vehicle operated flawlessly, the accident likely would not have happened. I don't think the onus is on the driver for the state of the vehicle, nor to plan for unexpected outcomes. There is far more fault in the person who thought the town square would be appropriate, and the person who thought mobile barriers were enough.
@@dragonace119 sure but some fault still lies with him for driving the vehicle with no real safety precautions. He should be well aware the dangers the event poses and he still decided to drive. Whether or not his career was on the line it’s still partially his fault. I don’t think all the jail time should go to him with the organizer just getting a fine but I think he should bear some repercussions
@@n-steam I just don’t think the driver got in the truck and thought, “oh yeah this is perfectly fine and there is as little risk for injury as is reasonable”. He was probably thinking about how risky this shit is and hoping nothing went wrong. If you find yourself in that scenario then you shouldn’t be doing what you are doing if you can help it. If he really thought that the safely was adequate then he should not be driving monster trucks. Just to clarify I don’t think the monster truck driver is the one who is even most at fault. Obviously the organizer bears most of the responsibility but accidents like this typically don’t happen because of one persons mistake
The same thing happened in Mexico back in 2013. During a monster truck show, a monster truck lost control and ran over more than ONE HUNDRED people and killed 9 people. The safety measures were, pretty much like in this case, non-existant. I don't understand how can someone authorize an event like this without the adequate safety measures
@@napoleonbonerfart278the boring answer is that they probably had nagging doubts but ultimately trusted the competency of event organisers and assumed they were overblowing the risks, after all they are not monster truck experts nor expected to be.
as someone who’s been to monster jam several times growing up that is an insane neglect for safety... when you goto a monster jam show in north america you can typically except to be on raised bleachers and they usually have the first 15 rows or so completely blocked off so the trucks can't get close to the people and even that can fail in a violent enough wreck. using metal barriers and like a 200ft circle is just wow
That man yelling "Oh God!" in the beginning clip is just so horrifying. You can really just feel his fear and tell how he's already processed what is actually happening, the true horror of it
I'm from the Netherlands too and I can confirm that this was (obviously) serious big news at the time, with there being national outrage as to why this tragedy could have happened. I will never forget the images of the 5 year old boy's Lightning McQueen shaped casket being loaded into the Hearse
In the Netherlands we typically have strict rules for everything. Since we are a dense populated country, a lot of things are strictly regulated to the point that it annoys the citizens sometimes. So how something like this even had a permit is beyond me.
Strict rules? Really you're going to tell me that after they said this driver will be allowed to stunt drive after 5 years? Sorry but if your legal system is that flawed... I couldn't imagine how fucken crap every other regulation is. It is no surprsing a country that thinks this is "justice" is the same country that allow events like this to occur. So ya don't give me that non-sense. "Strict rules for everything" Gimme a fucken break
The screams but especially the one by the male spectator who filmed the 1st clip, gave me chills! Must have been traumatic as hell! So tragic for those whose lives ended our changed by injury but also for those who had to see it right in front of them 😢 Mentally injured for life! May they rest in peace to those who perished & find peace in their lifes again, for those who survived ❤😔
Oddly this wasn't the "monster truck drives into crowd" video I thought it was going to be. I don't know why but this one is probably your scariest video.
I actually live in the next town over where this happened and i can still remember the large amount of emergency services sirens that i heard that day.
this is the reason safety barriers exist. its a shame a kid was killed by a monster truck with no real walls. another last moments you should do is Air Florida Flight 90 its very tragic
That's a great suggestion! One of the passengers had given up the life preserver to the others trapped in the freezing waters. He sadly died. He was a true hero.
Bill Skiles was a family friend who was on that flight. I believe his death left a mark on my dad for the rest of his life. I'll never forget watching the news reports with my family. My mom was crying and pleading for the last female victim that was rescued to just hold on while she kept losing her grasp of the rescue line due to the freezing water. We were all desperate for just a little bit of good news at that point. A terrible tragic day made a little bit better by some real life heroes.
As a mom, of course my mind goes straight to the family of that 5-year-old. I can't even imagine the absolute heartbreak & devastation. Going to see a fun show & having your little boy taken from you. You can even see a man desperately push a baby stroller out of the way in the footage. It's horrifying to think what all these people went through
I... can't even imagine walking up to that scene and going "yeah, this is a good place for my kids". Even the guy yanking strollers out of the way in case the truck started moving again... the whole thing was packed in like sardines. There's no way in hell I'd let my kid near something that close with just "rope" barriers in place. You gotta question the IQ of the people standing around to watch as much as the organizers. Before I was a dad, I was like a lot of people and assumed "I'm sure someone checked this out and it's okay" - but now I realize that the one who's supposed to be checking it out for my kids is, well, me.
Back in the mid 90s I was at a monster truck show where the crowd was even closer to the cars than in this show. I always thought it was a bit of a dangerous setup. I don't remember there being safety barriers either.
I went to one in 2005 in a parking lot with nothing more then jersey barriers as protection. my parents had me at the back of the crowd because my mom was scared. I wonder how often its simular.
barriers like the one in the video are worse than having no barriers at all. It doesn't stop the vehicle, but it does limit the spectator's escape routes.
I went to see one of these shows at a greyhound track back in the 1980s - it always amazed me how nobody was injured the amount of times one nearly went into the crowd after failing a jump - no walls, no safety barriers, just piles of dirt.
Gross negligence, there is a reason the first ~20 rows of the stadium are unoccupied in US shows - and even then, you might feel a tad uncomfortable sitting in the front.
Hello from snowy west Virginia ! YEHHAW another QXIR vid! Loved this one , it was really well put together saving the full clip for the end was a cherry on top. Great work man!
I feel like the driver's punishment is fair, over a year in jail and he can't do stunts again for 5 years. But only 25000 for giving them a permit for that? I'd match his sentence at the least
Just from a spectator’s point of view, I would have looked at the set up, & definitely been behind the truck upon start. I have gone to events and given up my seat to find a safer spot. At some point you have to look out for you.
No one ever thinks it’s going to be them and they probably don’t really understand it’s dangerous since this is probably the first time most of them saw a monster truck in person. And that it’s actually a big heavy machine that skids and slides and not just a funny little oddity from America.
Wait a minute, so the guy who had no bearing on safety standards was sent to prison for 15 months, but the guy who was only got charged a 25k fine? Likely less than the event even brought in let alone what his entire net worth is. Laws really are only made to punish the poor.
A horrible incident but a good example of why everyone should be always aware of their surroundings. Unfortunately we put too much faith in government bureaucrats and others to keep us safe. Although I don't doubt that the government used this incident as an excuse to hire more bureaucrats to keep us safe because, as we all know, when government fails it is almost always due to a lack of resources, never because someone is bad at their job.
This is the comment I was looking for. We need to do our own risk assessments a lot more often & not just assume some other entity has accounted for our livelihoods. I wouldn't have gone here, just as I stay out of jam-packed crowds and places/things that have been DIY'd for purposes other than intended or regulated. Too much can go wrong.
This Last moments video truly stuck with me, and I've watched them all. You know what's about to happen, you hope it doesn't but it does. The very moment the truck turned to the crowd I had to look away. Even the thumbnail has an hire of menace to it.
😳🤦♂️ My god.. I’ve seen some bad ones being involved with motorsports over the years but I never saw this and I really hope things like this stop happening so accidents or freak things are less likely to (from one extreme to another) destroy a motorsport’s reputation/safety record (so speak) to people’s lives being COMPLETELY destroyed… unreal… just wow….
It not only the organizers fault, people should really use common sense in these situations, it just takes 1 sensible person to look at this set up and say, “Nope”
Jaysus...and I'm only 33 seconds in. To be fair this is something I'd expect to happen in my hometown here in Meath (not Navan just incase anyone is wondering ). God (whom does not exsist) bless them. Love your Channel by the way, it is one of the best, if not the best.
Very nice video on this tragedy. I remember when it happened. It also had a huge impact on how municipalities handled local events from then on. Basically, everyone tightened the rules to prevent another, similar disaster from happening. It really was a case of “well, it’s never been a problem before, so we just rubberstamp the permits”. These days event organisers need to have very in-depth safety plans in order to be allowed to hold such an event.
Who ever planned it needs to be arrested. Monster truck are supposed to drift and jolt and it’s insane to have people right there without a kind of barrier or far away
this is the reason most seats in monster truck shows are elevated. i mean hell, look at the clip at 0:53 . On the other side of the stadium the first two rows are blocked off incase a truck accidentally jumps the barrier. And its happened before too at that same venue, in like 2010 when captains curse flipped over during a race and went into the stands
This is so frightening. I’m all for stunts/spectacles IRL or in movies. But not at the expense of basic safety measures put in place to keep those involved at low risk of harm.
Initially I didn't think the driver should be charged at all. Mechanical failures happen a lot in motorsports, and with these extremely specialized vehicles I can see why a piece of glass could lodge itself in the throttle and jam it open. Then I remembered something else, that being the fact that most cars built for motorsports have a kill switch that instantly disconnects the battery. If this truck didn't have one, that's negligence on the owner's/mechanic's side. If it did have one but the driver didn't pull it, then yeah the driver would still be at fault. Still, that doesn't excuse the organizers for not planning the show to take place in an area with more room that monster trucks need.
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Worth noting that all monster trucks in the US running on any circuit have to have RII's installed to remotely cut power for exactly this reason. That truck is also a US import, built as Overkill and running in the PENDA days. This isn't a case of poorly built equipment, this is a case of some hack buying excellent equipment and ignoring or removing safety equipment and running it anyway. The dude didn't even have an air filter on to stop debris getting into the motor, which is what caused this to begin with. Complete embarrassment. String the guy up.
@@nate6045 You'd be suprised, monster trucks are extremely safe. It's common they'll land square on the roof from 50-60 feet in the air and the driver will get out laughing and the truck will be racing the next day. The motors have blower straps, the transmissions have kevlar blankets, the U joints have cages and kevlar blankets, the steering knuckles/wheels are retained with extremely strong steel cables for when they break off etc. The only "weak" point is the fourlinks, which sort of act as a mechanical fuse, breaking first so more expensive stuff doesn't get destroyed instead. The US takes motor sport very seriously. There's a lot of development that goes into safety, especially on something designed to push the limits and break, like a monster truck. There's some pretty nice stuff in europe too. An old bigfoot chassis is out there, Dixon's PEI swamp thing, plus some modern CRD trucks as well. This event was someone buying 20 year old stuff and not taking it seriously at all. And the obvious happened.
@@nate6045 Sorry, it's a European country, but it's not a fucking Nordic country. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland are the Nordics. /A Swede living in Norway
"impossible to stop" because he could not turn the engine off? Seems a bit weird to me. As a professional heavy vehicle driver, "neutral, brake, engine off" was drilled into me during training and I think about it pretty much every intersection with pedestrians.
@@cavscout62 as I say, seems a bit weird to me (because, guess what... no I haven't) and thus the implied question by me is "could someone explain to me why it's not possible"
Lots of people here saying it was clearly unsafe, yet placing no blame on the spectators who chose to be so close to such a "clearly dangerous" stunt. Then blaming organizers who wouldn't know monster truck safety any better than the general public.
ORGANIZERS ARE MORALLY AND LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL ATTENDEES NO MATTER WHAT. IF DOES NOT TAKE A GENIUS TO REALIZE YOU SHOULD BE HIRING OR TALKING WITH PEOPLE MORE EXPERIENCED WITH STUNT SAFETY BEFORE ORGANIZING ONE WITH HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE SPECTATING. IT IS GROSS NEGLIGENCE TO BE PERFORMING WITH 4 TON VEHICLES WITHOUT PROPER SAFETY PROCEDURES AND MEASURES IN PLACE. IF YOU LAUNCH A ROCKET AND LET PEOPLE GET INCINERATED BY STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO IT, YOU ARE OBJECTIVELY THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEATHS. IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT SAFETY, THEN YOU SHOULD NOT BE ORGANIZING EVENTS AT ALL. THE ORGANIZERS FOR THIS EVENT FAILED THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT ATTENDEES IN SUCH A HORRENDOUS MANNER THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED FOR DECADES.
@@MrPikachuTheMadman would you let yourself get mowed down when you can remove yourself and your family from a unsafe situation just because it’s someone else’s responsibility?
So a bit of glass ammed the throttle wide open. No cross checking of the vehicle before it was allowed to perform? A 4 tonne monster truck. They need to have a kill switch on the dash or preferably on the steering wheel that cuts the fuel pump and ignition system when activated.
They are supposed to have a kill switch, everywhere in the US state mandate that it has been that way for years…. It’s insane to me that, with how big sports like tractor pulling are over there and how well done they are that they would let anything, especially in this horrendous set up, run without the standard RII system…and how many people do you have to injure doing various things to realize you’re probably not good at a performer and you’re going to ruin a sport AND people’s lives by not knowing what you’re doing/being COMPLETELY careless as a performer of any kind.. geez… Point is I completely agree with you!
To be honest, I see guilt spread completely around. What kind of responsible parent would put their children in this type of situation? Ignorance is no excuse.
@@Justin-pe9cl Of course you can, sometimes. It's called common sense. People aren't robots that have to be programmed. They make their own decisions all the time. This doesn't mean they are to blame of course. I wasn't there and it's always easier to "judge" after the facts.
This is both a tragedy and a "what-the-actual-feck?" event. I've had a stuck throttle on reaching the top of a steep hill. It's scary, in fact it's bloody terrifying! And I had only been driving a year. Mercifully I was able to _turn the bloody engine off_ and then steer onto a safe grass verge. This was a long time ago with a very mechanical car. No steering lock. But as soon as the power was cut, the brakes took over - obviously I'd been standing on the brakes from the second I realised what was happening with the throttle. If I as an 18 year-old could recognise the problem and deal with it in less than about 3 seconds, someone with such experience has no excuse. Turned out that the spring for the throttle had snapped on the way up the hill. Fortunately an off-duty traffic officer pulled up a matter of minutes later, and managed to diagnose it and give me a temporary fix to get home. Some years later my then bf (now old feller of more years than I'll admit to) pulled off the motorway we were on (fortunately at a junction that we were next to - it was a matter of yards at 70mph for him to make the decision) and drove up a steep bank, cutting the power immediately. He had realised that the brakes had failed and got us into a safe place. Again, he was a young man (early 20s) who diagnosed and dealt with a potentially deadly problem (it was the M25...) in seconds. Given that man's history, a) I'm surprised he was ever allowed to drive anything after the first incident, and b) more appalled that he was allowed to carry on after the next. I'm also disgusted by the town council's actions when it comes to a lack of common sense, let alone high-level health and safety practices. My heart goes out to all the bereaved families, especially that of the young lad. I don't think I could control my anger had I been in his family's place. They're better people than me. Mijn diepste medeleven gaat uit naar iedereen.
I don't think I have EVER seen any sort of monster truck event in a town square or anywhere that wasn't some sort of arena in the US. Texas and the US are not backwards like many think they are.
@@samhouston1288 In fact the backwoods style of Monster trucks in the US are used for mudding, which are done in a field, and even those have better protection than this event
@@samhouston1288 I vaguely recall few Florida mudding events where drunks got attendees with their 'monster' trucks to run-over bystander's cars *after* those _cars provided for that purpose_ were exhausted. A google search now only finds 'Swamp Cabbage Weekend' (2012) described as a teenager returning to find her car flattened; But I recall an incident where the owner of the car was actively screaming/yelling over the drunks to try and get the (drunk) truck driver not to, where there were no barriers, the crowd-line/space forming as people recognize the danger. (Similar atmosphere to another revel/uncontrolled events where drunks pushed/shoved an unsuspecting teenaged girl into unavoidable collision with an acrobatic display, resulting in crippling life-altering injury to her and the demonstrator -ed: who may have been related?)
Strange that a man created so much suffering on 3 separate occasions - 3 killed, one burned, 46 injured, and who knows how many traumatized, but he only suffered consequences on the third stunt where he was jailed for 15 month. A bit infuriating
This happened around 20 years ago in an arena on the east cpast, US. Full safety regs were followed. A freak event, with the truck goong over 30 rows into the crowd.
All I’m saying is is if a place doesn’t have a good enough infrastructure, and the audience can’t sit far enough back then they shouldn’t have these kinds of events
The driver obviously was somewhat at fault, but I have no idea why he was punished way more harshly than the organizer? The organizer seems way more responsible for the accident in my opinion, especially since the accident was caused by glass in the throttle body, it’s much more the fault of the organizer for putting the driver in that situation in the first place, as accidents can and will happen at these shows.
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The same thing happened in Norway a few years ago (dont remember what year).
They could have painted a line on the ground for the audience to stand behind for all the good those "barriers" were.
Facts
you expect people to see and obey the line?
people can't stay in their lanes on the highway and when parking
@@_Circus_Clapped_ That wasn't the point. I said that the barriers were as effective keeping the truck out as a painted line would be.
@@dickJohnsonpeter no one set up the barriers with an expectation to stop the truck, they were placed there simply to keep people from getting into the zone.
@@_Circus_Clapped_I think he meant they might as well have painted a line and it would have offered the same amount of protection.
So the stuntman goes to jail, but the guy who paid him to do it only gets a $25k fine for orchestrating the death of 3 people? Classic justice right there
Only 3 is pretty lucky jesus
Well to be fair... The guy who organised it was probably wealthier... And isn't that how justice works these days?
Eh, how is that different from anywhere else?
In the military if you are given an order that is wrong and you cary it out you will risk punishment more severely then the man giving you the order.
Why? Because you always have the option to say no.
@@vonshroom2068But..it's an order?
Monster trucks suck!
The organizers needed some jail time
Yea they were every bit as at fault as the driver.
That's what happened in Mexico, Horror Stories has a video on that among other things.
At with 25.000€ they probably still profited off of this ;(
@@dickJohnsonpeterthe driver really can't help a mechanical failure, I worked in a garage for years, we had put brand new never used parts on vehicles at least once a week that were faulty from the supplier, that's not our fault, and the supplier would always make good on the faulty parts.
@@hastyhillfarmand4x480 I think the conviction was also based on his willingness to drive at all in a situation with such poor safety standards. That said, the event organizer is, IMO, much more responsible for keeping the crowd safe than the driver, so the difference in sentences still doesn't make much sense
This set up was tragedy in the making. There's a reason why monster trucks generally operate in well prepared large arenas with safety barriers and other measures. What a nightmare for those who witnessed this.
all those safety features and a truck has STILL made it up and over the first barrier too after bouncing around and going out of control.
"Regulations are written in blood."
@@HamburgerAmy I think that's why they close off some sections of seating near the stadium ground
@@joshualund752 yup! usually in those tight stadiums everyone's sitting up and way back and they have stuff covering the lower rows/sections of seats as "catches" so it'll snare the truck up.
it's crazy how much thought and effort goes into those stadium monster trucks to make it a safe show for everyone.
i went to a monster truck show and they spent almost half an hour testing various safety measures like remote engine killswitches. im amazed one wasnt used here
Imagine standing 10 metres away from that thing with your children and not feeling an immediate sense of danger. Just watching that build up made my blood run cold.
This is why there is a label on dynamite not to hold it in your hand.
@@johnpublic6582 Or "Light fuse and RUN AWAY!!!" on fireworks 🤣
Also, sorry not sorry, in the case of fireworks, if you're dumb enough to not follow that label......well Im not convinced we need you in the gene pool.....Stupidity should be painful, its the only way some people will learn.
I wouldn’t have put myself in front of that, much less my children, nope.
Group B rallying ended because of people like that, sadly.
It's nothing short of amazing what crowd mentality will do to a person's sense of self preservation. No one would dare stand on a race track while cars are zipping around it at 150 miles per hour, but if you saw 2 people already standing on the track without a care in the world then surely it must be a safe place to stand and linger, right? No? Well imagine it's 100 people standing on that race track instead of 2. It's almost guaranteed the 101st person to approach and witness this gathering will see no reason to doubt that it's a safe place to sit down and have a picnic, regardless of every obvious indication of the dangers of doing so. Surely 100 people can't all be wrong about something so obvious, right? A false sense of comeraderie replaces all instincts of self preservation and the crowd grows larger.
even with tall barriers in the USA there is a remote kill switch for the monster trucks
I just read that he killed it too late, he was already on top of people.
So.... they can kill people by remote instead?
Doesn't matter. In this case, the area wasn't big enough to safely host OR drive in. The speed at which this happened, and the closeness of all involved, means the kills switch is negligible. Even with a kill switch, it doesn't negate forward momentum enough to avoid what happened.
even with a remote kill switch, that wont stop 4 tons of weight going 15mph
they needed to do this in a stadium with tall stands and plenty of room, like twice the amount this space has plus more as a braking area so they dont hit the stands, atleast not at full speed
not just tall barriers but several rows of seating also blocked off and we still have a truck or tire occasionally make it to the crowd
I'm Dutch and totally forgot about this. It was absolutely ridiculous this was allowed to happen. It caused quite the political row because there was only a criminal charge for the driver but all those who allowed it got nothing but some scolding.
I work in haaksbergen and i can tell you that they have not forgotten. It still gets brought up regularly
was gonna say, wtf the driver got jail but the person they didnt have the picture for only gets a fine.
You'd think this would happen in a third world country, I hope that if I had been there, I would have realized the danger and moved away from the area, but maybe we trust that the people who stage it are not this incompetent and wreckless.
@@user-td4gh6kj2z 'Stichting' means organization, usually a non-profit one, so not a person. Could still be only 1 person connected to that organization but likely there's a few other people working there too.
@@someguy4915 ah okay the way they showed a blank picture of a single person messed me up there.
I've worked with monster trucks as a pyrotechnican here in Australia.
One thing I've come to realise is that Monster Trucks are an extremely unpredictable and dangerous vehicle. Every part of its construction is pushed to the physical limits and singular failures can lead to this kind of accident. Normally for dangerous vehicles you would expect redundancies to allow for a partial failures of a system to not be a catastrophic risk.
I've seen Monster Trucks with remote shut down be remotely turned off by safely officers still continue to roll forward or hop due to its forward momentum even if the brakes are locked.
Monster trucks should never be anywhere that doesn't have large concrete or weighted shipping containers barriers. They can easily push over and jump anything less than 6ft so minimum 10-12 ft barriers are a must.
Exactly !!!
I wondered why the driver didn't just kill the ignition, assuming that it had one like it should. Race cars are required to have a kill switch onboard, though that is the limit of my experience since I have none with so-called "monster trucks"...
The whole appeal of them is that they are bouncy and make exaggerated movements as they go over unpredictable terrain
Exactly - the only places I've seen them in the US is inside an arena or stadium. There is the vertical separation you speak off from the stands to the event floor, and additionally, they don't allow any spectators in the lower sections.
There's a reason why most big shows block off a large amount of the front row seating, this video is a great example ruclips.net/video/vA3Db0Hgpao/видео.htmlfeature=shared
@@davidhollenshead4892 Well it happened so fast, he didn't know what was going on and didn't have time to diagnose it. There was not enough space between him and the crowd so he was focusing on trying to steer it elsewhere so as to not hit anyone. But really, nothing could have been done. It was only a few seconds to disaster, literally.
But even without the glass in the fuel system the multiple and glaring safety breaches of the event itself was the real problem and something WAS going to go wrong. Poor truck driver. He shouldn't have accepted that job offer that day under those circumstances. Very risky. Like 100% risky!
How stupid do you have to be to not realize that this set up was a HORRIBLE idea. The distance between the truck and barrier was like 3 lengths of the truck.
Lmao 🤣
I mean it is the Netherlands, go look up old Group B Rallies, you got a speeding car hoping hills and hitting corners, and all of the protection the public has is some tape, shit some of them tried to touch the car when it pass by
we are dutch. we don't care until it goes wrong. THAN it becomes something important we should have seen coming. it always goes like that here.
Welcome to dutch government. Where money is everything. And peoples lives and safety nothing. Local government and even national government has a track record of destroying peoples lives with callousness.
time and time again, the europeans cannot replicate american things, as they just see things at face value and deem it as stupid. Americans have decades of experience with all of this, and know all the ins and outs.
The fact that the driver was held accountable for the towns negligence is unsurprising.
It his negligence too. No one should know how much room and protection a monster truck should need more than the monster truck driver
@@nickbob2003 Typically in motorsports if your boss tells you to do something you are often contractally obligated to do so or risk your career.
@@nickbob2003 had the vehicle operated flawlessly, the accident likely would not have happened. I don't think the onus is on the driver for the state of the vehicle, nor to plan for unexpected outcomes. There is far more fault in the person who thought the town square would be appropriate, and the person who thought mobile barriers were enough.
@@dragonace119 sure but some fault still lies with him for driving the vehicle with no real safety precautions. He should be well aware the dangers the event poses and he still decided to drive. Whether or not his career was on the line it’s still partially his fault. I don’t think all the jail time should go to him with the organizer just getting a fine but I think he should bear some repercussions
@@n-steam I just don’t think the driver got in the truck and thought, “oh yeah this is perfectly fine and there is as little risk for injury as is reasonable”. He was probably thinking about how risky this shit is and hoping nothing went wrong. If you find yourself in that scenario then you shouldn’t be doing what you are doing if you can help it. If he really thought that the safely was adequate then he should not be driving monster trucks. Just to clarify I don’t think the monster truck driver is the one who is even most at fault. Obviously the organizer bears most of the responsibility but accidents like this typically don’t happen because of one persons mistake
There's a reason they say regulations are written in blood.
These young kids who do burnouts in intersections will eventually learn this lesson.
no one would have died if theyd been wearing high-visibility clothing
@@Wooargh I don't think that I was the visibility that was the problem
The same thing happened in Mexico back in 2013. During a monster truck show, a monster truck lost control and ran over more than ONE HUNDRED people and killed 9 people. The safety measures were, pretty much like in this case, non-existant. I don't understand how can someone authorize an event like this without the adequate safety measures
I saw the video it horrible I don’t recommend watching it. If I remember it was in Chihuahua, Mexico but I could be wrong.
@@RaV3nnI thought this video was gonna be about that accident
Yea I hella thought it was gonna be the Mexico crash ha
@@farhanatashiga3721Same here. When he said the Netherlands, I was really confused, cause I never heard this one.
iirc the driver was intoxicated
Those organisers got away with not even a slap on the wrist
You couldn't pay me(a person with a brain) to get that close to a monster truck crushing cars. What were these parents thinking?!?!
@@napoleonbonerfart278the boring answer is that they probably had nagging doubts but ultimately trusted the competency of event organisers and assumed they were overblowing the risks, after all they are not monster truck experts nor expected to be.
The Dutch have much more faith in their government than Americans. A lot of people assume it’s safe because the city gave it a green light.
as someone who’s been to monster jam several times growing up that is an insane neglect for safety... when you goto a monster jam show in north america you can typically except to be on raised bleachers and they usually have the first 15 rows or so completely blocked off so the trucks can't get close to the people and even that can fail in a violent enough wreck. using metal barriers and like a 200ft circle is just wow
Americans created monster trucks and other countries adopted them. Apparently they didn't adopt the safety procedures with it.
Looking at this video this was basically murder
That man yelling "Oh God!" in the beginning clip is just so horrifying. You can really just feel his fear and tell how he's already processed what is actually happening, the true horror of it
Monster trucks…and Netherlands are 2 words i never thought I’d hear in the same sentence. lol. Thank you for the great video.
We also used to have a lot of them in Belgium like 15-20 years ago
Hells Angels in Netherlands
A 25,000 euro fine for allowing such a dangerous thing to be permitted is disgusting
I'm from the Netherlands, so this hits hard. Never heard of this happening, but I have ignored the news channels for decades now so I'm not surprised.
How convenient for you
I can tell from your comment that you don't follow the news, because if you would have, this would have been impossible to miss
I'm from the Netherlands too and I can confirm that this was (obviously) serious big news at the time, with there being national outrage as to why this tragedy could have happened.
I will never forget the images of the 5 year old boy's Lightning McQueen shaped casket being loaded into the Hearse
@@WillyWilson11 Euh yea, I literally said I ignored the news for decades so ... overstating the obvious much?
Ignoring the news is a great mental health choice.
3:27 did you just cast a spell on me?
Lmao no he did it @ 3:47
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Took me too long to realize that Q was saying Dutch words rather than clearing his throat of a massive obstruction. 😂🤣😂🤣
To be fair, he did pretty well! He obviously did some research.
Normally you would get a Haha from me. The clip however involves the death of a 5 year old so no haha this time...
In the Netherlands we typically have strict rules for everything. Since we are a dense populated country, a lot of things are strictly regulated to the point that it annoys the citizens sometimes. So how something like this even had a permit is beyond me.
It's Haaksbergen. Thats how.
Strict rules? Really you're going to tell me that after they said this driver will be allowed to stunt drive after 5 years?
Sorry but if your legal system is that flawed... I couldn't imagine how fucken crap every other regulation is. It is no surprsing a country that thinks this is "justice" is the same country that allow events like this to occur.
So ya don't give me that non-sense. "Strict rules for everything" Gimme a fucken break
He who gives up liberty for safety, deserves neither.
@@ZipperOfficial One average we have the single strictest judges in the EU. So yeah there's truth to what he said.
@@kyleayres5397brainrotted American take
Insane how the businessmen and politicians never get any significant punishment in these stories.
The screams but especially the one by the male spectator who filmed the 1st clip, gave me chills! Must have been traumatic as hell! So tragic for those whose lives ended our changed by injury but also for those who had to see it right in front of them 😢 Mentally injured for life! May they rest in peace to those who perished & find peace in their lifes again, for those who survived ❤😔
3:27 when you drop the new silverware set on the floor
Bro 😂
I kinda have to respect you for actually showing footage and not just hiding it in liveleak
Oddly this wasn't the "monster truck drives into crowd" video I thought it was going to be. I don't know why but this one is probably your scariest video.
as someone who speaks (some) dutch, i just wanna appreciate qxir's pronunciations of dutch words, he did pretty well tbh
loved the way you perfectly pronounced Stichting Sterevenementen and so casually haha, your dutch is as authentic as your irish ngl
There's probably a long blooper reel that he never released because of the seriousness of this event
Consequences are rarly harsh. In Kaprun in Austria 155 people died and no one was charged.
@Qxir maybe an upcoming episode??
@Qxir yeaaaa
What incident was this
@@ricksullo557 just search "Kaprun 2"
Ahoy, oversimplified and qixr posting all in the same day, it’s a good Friday
Bro I'm subscribed to all of those too what 💀
I'm from the netherlands and work in Haaksbergen. It's still fresh in the memory of my colleagues who live there. Thank you for making this video.
I actually live in the next town over where this happened and i can still remember the large amount of emergency services sirens that i heard that day.
this is the reason safety barriers exist. its a shame a kid was killed by a monster truck with no real walls. another last moments you should do is Air Florida Flight 90 its very tragic
That's a great suggestion! One of the passengers had given up the life preserver to the others trapped in the freezing waters. He sadly died. He was a true hero.
Bill Skiles was a family friend who was on that flight. I believe his death left a mark on my dad for the rest of his life.
I'll never forget watching the news reports with my family. My mom was crying and pleading for the last female victim that was rescued to just hold on while she kept losing her grasp of the rescue line due to the freezing water. We were all desperate for just a little bit of good news at that point. A terrible tragic day made a little bit better by some real life heroes.
As a mom, of course my mind goes straight to the family of that 5-year-old. I can't even imagine the absolute heartbreak & devastation. Going to see a fun show & having your little boy taken from you.
You can even see a man desperately push a baby stroller out of the way in the footage. It's horrifying to think what all these people went through
I... can't even imagine walking up to that scene and going "yeah, this is a good place for my kids". Even the guy yanking strollers out of the way in case the truck started moving again... the whole thing was packed in like sardines. There's no way in hell I'd let my kid near something that close with just "rope" barriers in place.
You gotta question the IQ of the people standing around to watch as much as the organizers. Before I was a dad, I was like a lot of people and assumed "I'm sure someone checked this out and it's okay" - but now I realize that the one who's supposed to be checking it out for my kids is, well, me.
Back in the mid 90s I was at a monster truck show where the crowd was even closer to the cars than in this show. I always thought it was a bit of a dangerous setup. I don't remember there being safety barriers either.
I went to one in 2005 in a parking lot with nothing more then jersey barriers as protection. my parents had me at the back of the crowd because my mom was scared. I wonder how often its simular.
barriers like the one in the video are worse than having no barriers at all. It doesn't stop the vehicle, but it does limit the spectator's escape routes.
Man, how can you not have seen that coming ?
The organizers deserve much harsher punishments than the driver..... but he gets jail time and they get a 25k euro fine? Unbelievable.
Kind of fascinating; so much mayhem yet plausible defense arguments. Thank you for thought-provoking content.
Well put
Great videos dude!
Bedankt en tot ziens!
I went to see one of these shows at a greyhound track back in the 1980s - it always amazed me how nobody was injured the amount of times one nearly went into the crowd after failing a jump - no walls, no safety barriers, just piles of dirt.
the man is a literal jinx to any vehicle he ride
Sad story.....
Great video !
Gross negligence, there is a reason the first ~20 rows of the stadium are unoccupied in US shows - and even then, you might feel a tad uncomfortable sitting in the front.
also the truck was not equipped with the standard RII system that allows event operators to remotely disable the truck
Great video
Hello from snowy west Virginia ! YEHHAW another QXIR vid! Loved this one , it was really well put together saving the full clip for the end was a cherry on top. Great work man!
I feel like the driver's punishment is fair, over a year in jail and he can't do stunts again for 5 years. But only 25000 for giving them a permit for that? I'd match his sentence at the least
Well, I don’t like that squishing sound. 00:28
I didn't notice it the first time around that's horrifying
I cant hear it over the engine
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Nice background, amazing video!
congrats on passing 1million subs old bean. well deserved
Just from a spectator’s point of view, I would have looked at the set up, & definitely been behind the truck upon start. I have gone to events and given up my seat to find a safer spot. At some point you have to look out for you.
No one ever thinks it’s going to be them and they probably don’t really understand it’s dangerous since this is probably the first time most of them saw a monster truck in person. And that it’s actually a big heavy machine that skids and slides and not just a funny little oddity from America.
@@ryancialone3045 I apply this to every day life. No matter where I go or what I’m doing. Keep your head on a swivel, & assess your surroundings.
How can you be behind the truck when it is driving round in circles?
Wait a minute, so the guy who had no bearing on safety standards was sent to prison for 15 months, but the guy who was only got charged a 25k fine? Likely less than the event even brought in let alone what his entire net worth is.
Laws really are only made to punish the poor.
Dutch man here. You flashed up my memory with this one. I was just a kid when this happened. It was al over the news
Last Moments are my favourite category on this channel.
A horrible incident but a good example of why everyone should be always aware of their surroundings. Unfortunately we put too much faith in government bureaucrats and others to keep us safe.
Although I don't doubt that the government used this incident as an excuse to hire more bureaucrats to keep us safe because, as we all know, when government fails it is almost always due to a lack of resources, never because someone is bad at their job.
This is the comment I was looking for. We need to do our own risk assessments a lot more often & not just assume some other entity has accounted for our livelihoods. I wouldn't have gone here, just as I stay out of jam-packed crowds and places/things that have been DIY'd for purposes other than intended or regulated. Too much can go wrong.
Big truck, small road. What were they thinking?
This Last moments video truly stuck with me, and I've watched them all. You know what's about to happen, you hope it doesn't but it does. The very moment the truck turned to the crowd I had to look away. Even the thumbnail has an hire of menace to it.
Qxir Take care, mate
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My god.. I’ve seen some bad ones being involved with motorsports over the years but I never saw this and I really hope things like this stop happening so accidents or freak things are less likely to (from one extreme to another) destroy a motorsport’s reputation/safety record (so speak) to people’s lives being COMPLETELY destroyed… unreal… just wow….
It not only the organizers fault, people should really use common sense in these situations, it just takes 1 sensible person to look at this set up and say, “Nope”
I agree. Don't think people would stand behind the same gate's to watch a lion walking around...🤦♂️
Jaysus...and I'm only 33 seconds in. To be fair this is something I'd expect to happen in my hometown here in Meath (not Navan just incase anyone is wondering ). God (whom does not exsist) bless them. Love your Channel by the way, it is one of the best, if not the best.
Very nice video on this tragedy. I remember when it happened.
It also had a huge impact on how municipalities handled local events from then on. Basically, everyone tightened the rules to prevent another, similar disaster from happening. It really was a case of “well, it’s never been a problem before, so we just rubberstamp the permits”. These days event organisers need to have very in-depth safety plans in order to be allowed to hold such an event.
Here in North Carolina it's mandatory for everyone to yell, "WOOOO HOOOOO!!", before checking on the injured. 😳😵💫🤣
Who ever planned it needs to be arrested. Monster truck are supposed to drift and jolt and it’s insane to have people right there without a kind of barrier or far away
3:28 Respect for just pronouncing that name like it´s nothing. I wouldn´t even try XD
this is the reason most seats in monster truck shows are elevated. i mean hell, look at the clip at 0:53 . On the other side of the stadium the first two rows are blocked off incase a truck accidentally jumps the barrier. And its happened before too at that same venue, in like 2010 when captains curse flipped over during a race and went into the stands
This is so frightening. I’m all for stunts/spectacles IRL or in movies. But not at the expense of basic safety measures put in place to keep those involved at low risk of harm.
God i love your videos
Crushing experience 😬
Initially I didn't think the driver should be charged at all. Mechanical failures happen a lot in motorsports, and with these extremely specialized vehicles I can see why a piece of glass could lodge itself in the throttle and jam it open. Then I remembered something else, that being the fact that most cars built for motorsports have a kill switch that instantly disconnects the battery. If this truck didn't have one, that's negligence on the owner's/mechanic's side. If it did have one but the driver didn't pull it, then yeah the driver would still be at fault. Still, that doesn't excuse the organizers for not planning the show to take place in an area with more room that monster trucks need.
A kill switch is not going to do anything in that situation. The truck is still going to have momentum carrying it forward.
The European mind cannot comprehend this
Apparently they can because this happened in the Netherlands
@@sauceboss8693and look what happened
In the Midwest we just have a middle-aged dad with a huge beer gut stand in the front row, deflecting any out-of-control monster trucks
Amerimutt attempts to apply le meme he saw on reddit. fails spectacularly after failing to realize that for something to be funny it has to make sense.
I remember this happening in a town near me, so surreal seeing it being brought up again
Bro you have such good pronunciation, seems so effortless
Worth noting that all monster trucks in the US running on any circuit have to have RII's installed to remotely cut power for exactly this reason. That truck is also a US import, built as Overkill and running in the PENDA days. This isn't a case of poorly built equipment, this is a case of some hack buying excellent equipment and ignoring or removing safety equipment and running it anyway. The dude didn't even have an air filter on to stop debris getting into the motor, which is what caused this to begin with.
Complete embarrassment. String the guy up.
When the US takes safety more seriously than a Nordic country you know you're fucked
@@nate6045 Nordic country??
@@nate6045 You'd be suprised, monster trucks are extremely safe. It's common they'll land square on the roof from 50-60 feet in the air and the driver will get out laughing and the truck will be racing the next day.
The motors have blower straps, the transmissions have kevlar blankets, the U joints have cages and kevlar blankets, the steering knuckles/wheels are retained with extremely strong steel cables for when they break off etc.
The only "weak" point is the fourlinks, which sort of act as a mechanical fuse, breaking first so more expensive stuff doesn't get destroyed instead.
The US takes motor sport very seriously. There's a lot of development that goes into safety, especially on something designed to push the limits and break, like a monster truck.
There's some pretty nice stuff in europe too. An old bigfoot chassis is out there, Dixon's PEI swamp thing, plus some modern CRD trucks as well. This event was someone buying 20 year old stuff and not taking it seriously at all. And the obvious happened.
@@nate6045 Sorry, it's a European country, but it's not a fucking Nordic country. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland are the Nordics.
/A Swede living in Norway
You must be fun at parties...
"impossible to stop" because he could not turn the engine off? Seems a bit weird to me. As a professional heavy vehicle driver, "neutral, brake, engine off" was drilled into me during training and I think about it pretty much every intersection with pedestrians.
Ever ridden in or driven a vehicle with the horsepower to weight ratio anywhere near to that which powers these trucks?
@@cavscout62 as I say, seems a bit weird to me (because, guess what... no I haven't) and thus the implied question by me is "could someone explain to me why it's not possible"
What do expect from a reckless stunt driver? The ability to take appropriate action if something fails?
Ty for video! Topic suggestion: Enschede fireworks disaster. Failure galore, it's a blast😅
Over 1 Million Subs.!!!
Lots of people here saying it was clearly unsafe, yet placing no blame on the spectators who chose to be so close to such a "clearly dangerous" stunt.
Then blaming organizers who wouldn't know monster truck safety any better than the general public.
It doesn’t take a degree to see that this is wildly unsafe.
LOL blaming spectators
Victim blaming.
ORGANIZERS ARE MORALLY AND LEGALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL ATTENDEES NO MATTER WHAT.
IF DOES NOT TAKE A GENIUS TO REALIZE YOU SHOULD BE HIRING OR TALKING WITH PEOPLE MORE EXPERIENCED WITH STUNT SAFETY BEFORE ORGANIZING ONE WITH HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE SPECTATING. IT IS GROSS NEGLIGENCE TO BE PERFORMING WITH 4 TON VEHICLES WITHOUT PROPER SAFETY PROCEDURES AND MEASURES IN PLACE.
IF YOU LAUNCH A ROCKET AND LET PEOPLE GET INCINERATED BY STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO IT, YOU ARE OBJECTIVELY THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEATHS.
IF YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW TO IMPLEMENT SAFETY, THEN YOU SHOULD NOT BE ORGANIZING EVENTS AT ALL.
THE ORGANIZERS FOR THIS EVENT FAILED THEIR DUTY TO PROTECT ATTENDEES IN SUCH A HORRENDOUS MANNER THAT THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPRISONED FOR DECADES.
@@MrPikachuTheMadman would you let yourself get mowed down when you can remove yourself and your family from a unsafe situation just because it’s someone else’s responsibility?
So a bit of glass ammed the throttle wide open. No cross checking of the vehicle before it was allowed to perform? A 4 tonne monster truck. They need to have a kill switch on the dash or preferably on the steering wheel that cuts the fuel pump and ignition system when activated.
They are supposed to have a kill switch, everywhere in the US state mandate that it has been that way for years…. It’s insane to me that, with how big sports like tractor pulling are over there and how well done they are that they would let anything, especially in this horrendous set up, run without the standard RII system…and how many people do you have to injure doing various things to realize you’re probably not good at a performer and you’re going to ruin a sport AND people’s lives by not knowing what you’re doing/being COMPLETELY careless as a performer of any kind.. geez…
Point is I completely agree with you!
Solid attempt at Nerderlands 😌
Big compliments on trying to pronounce the Dutch names so perfectly. Nice.
To be honest, I see guilt spread completely around. What kind of responsible parent would put their children in this type of situation? Ignorance is no excuse.
This may sound very harsh for the victims and their families, but you're not wrong.
Ignorance is an excuse. You can’t know what you don’t know.
@@Justin-pe9cl Of course you can, sometimes. It's called common sense. People aren't robots that have to be programmed. They make their own decisions all the time. This doesn't mean they are to blame of course. I wasn't there and it's always easier to "judge" after the facts.
@@mbrackeva I agree
At what point do people take responsibility for their own safety? I would say the whole crowd shares a bit of blame in this.
I'm thinking that myself. A bunch of idiots. "Someone should have kept us safe!". Perfect livestock for the Elite agenda.
3:27 - You deserve an award for the pronunciation of that event organizer's name!
Oooh a video about my country this time
This is both a tragedy and a "what-the-actual-feck?" event.
I've had a stuck throttle on reaching the top of a steep hill. It's scary, in fact it's bloody terrifying! And I had only been driving a year. Mercifully I was able to _turn the bloody engine off_ and then steer onto a safe grass verge.
This was a long time ago with a very mechanical car. No steering lock. But as soon as the power was cut, the brakes took over - obviously I'd been standing on the brakes from the second I realised what was happening with the throttle. If I as an 18 year-old could recognise the problem and deal with it in less than about 3 seconds, someone with such experience has no excuse.
Turned out that the spring for the throttle had snapped on the way up the hill. Fortunately an off-duty traffic officer pulled up a matter of minutes later, and managed to diagnose it and give me a temporary fix to get home.
Some years later my then bf (now old feller of more years than I'll admit to) pulled off the motorway we were on (fortunately at a junction that we were next to - it was a matter of yards at 70mph for him to make the decision) and drove up a steep bank, cutting the power immediately. He had realised that the brakes had failed and got us into a safe place. Again, he was a young man (early 20s) who diagnosed and dealt with a potentially deadly problem (it was the M25...) in seconds.
Given that man's history, a) I'm surprised he was ever allowed to drive anything after the first incident, and b) more appalled that he was allowed to carry on after the next. I'm also disgusted by the town council's actions when it comes to a lack of common sense, let alone high-level health and safety practices.
My heart goes out to all the bereaved families, especially that of the young lad. I don't think I could control my anger had I been in his family's place. They're better people than me.
Mijn diepste medeleven gaat uit naar iedereen.
I expect this kind of thing from texas, so im kind of surprised this comes from the Netherlands
I don't think I have EVER seen any sort of monster truck event in a town square or anywhere that wasn't some sort of arena in the US. Texas and the US are not backwards like many think they are.
@@samhouston1288 In fact the backwoods style of Monster trucks in the US are used for mudding, which are done in a field, and even those have better protection than this event
@@samhouston1288 I vaguely recall few Florida mudding events where drunks got attendees with their 'monster' trucks to run-over bystander's cars *after* those _cars provided for that purpose_ were exhausted.
A google search now only finds 'Swamp Cabbage Weekend' (2012) described as a teenager returning to find her car flattened;
But I recall an incident where the owner of the car was actively screaming/yelling over the drunks to try and get the (drunk) truck driver not to, where there were no barriers, the crowd-line/space forming as people recognize the danger.
(Similar atmosphere to another revel/uncontrolled events where drunks pushed/shoved an unsuspecting teenaged girl into unavoidable collision with an acrobatic display, resulting in crippling life-altering injury to her and the demonstrator -ed: who may have been related?)
I remember this very well, I actually used to live very close to Haaksbergen and my parents still do
First video i have seen on yt with 11k likes and 0 dislikes
I wonder what kind of insurance they had. I hope that people were at least able to sue them.
Strange that a man created so much suffering on 3 separate occasions - 3 killed, one burned, 46 injured, and who knows how many traumatized, but he only suffered consequences on the third stunt where he was jailed for 15 month. A bit infuriating
He's a hired driver. He didn't build any of those vehicles, nor arrange for spectators to be near them. He did what someone paid him to do.
This happened around 20 years ago in an arena on the east cpast, US. Full safety regs were followed. A freak event, with the truck goong over 30 rows into the crowd.
TYVM for another *'interesting'* upload 😵💫
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No charges for those exposing children to the risks
All I’m saying is is if a place doesn’t have a good enough infrastructure, and the audience can’t sit far enough back then they shouldn’t have these kinds of events
"Here, take my shirt".
"Sir, we have gauze"
"SHIRRRRRRT"
I remember this it was al over the news back then. I've never really seen the footage until now
The driver obviously was somewhat at fault, but I have no idea why he was punished way more harshly than the organizer? The organizer seems way more responsible for the accident in my opinion, especially since the accident was caused by glass in the throttle body, it’s much more the fault of the organizer for putting the driver in that situation in the first place, as accidents can and will happen at these shows.