{"id":1,"date":"2010-02-22T13:12:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/spectator-killed-by-flying-tire-from-nhra-crash-in-arizona.html"},"modified":"2010-03-04T01:13:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T07:13:47","slug":"spectator-killed-by-flying-tire-from-nhra-crash-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/spectator-killed-by-flying-tire-from-nhra-crash-in-arizona.html","title":{"rendered":"Spectator Killed By Flying Tire From NHRA Crash In Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"A woman spectator was killed this weekend when a tire flew off a drag racing car and hit her before the vehicle crashed at the National Hot Rod Association Arizona Nationals in Chan<br \/>dler, Ariz., according to USA Today.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nhra\/2010-02-21-crewmember-injury-phoenix_N.htm\">http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nhra\/2010-02-21-crewmember-injury-phoenix_N.htm<\/a><br \/><br \/>The unidentified woman was taken from Firebird International Raceway by helicopter to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix and died there several hours later.<br \/><br \/>The accident during the first round of the Arizona Nationals is reportedly the first non-participant death at an NHRA event since the mid-1970s, according to the Arizona Republic. <br \/><a href=\" http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/sports\/speed\/articles\/2010\/02\/21\/20100221nhra-firebird-raceway-fan-injured.html\"><br \/>http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/sports\/speed\/articles\/2010\/02\/21\/20100221nhra-firebird-raceway-fan-injured.html<\/a><br \/><br \/>The accident took place Sunday when Top Fuel dragster Antron Brown lost control, crossed into the lane of his rival Troy Buff and then hit a wall. The car flipped onto its right side, caught fire and then its left rear tire flew off and went into a crowd of bystanders.<br \/><br \/>Brown was examined at Chandler Regional Medical Center and released. <br \/><br \/>In a statement, the NHRA said it was investigating the crash.<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe entire NHRA community is deeply saddened by today\u2019s incident and sends its thoughts and prayers to the woman\u2019s family and friends,\u201d the organization said.<br \/><br \/>Rain postponed the rest of the race Sunday. It was set to resume Monday.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman spectator was killed this weekend when a tire flew off a drag racing car and hit her before the vehicle crashed at the National Hot Rod Association Arizona Nationals in Chandler, Ariz., according to USA Today.http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/motor\/nhra\/2010-02-21-crewmember-injury-phoenix_N.htmThe unidentified woman was taken from Firebird International Raceway by helicopter to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Phoenix [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7,6,4,5,3],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fishtail","tag-hydroplane","tag-tire-accident","tag-tire-accident-attorney","tag-tire-accidents"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}