Chuck Bryant
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And the path of destruction was just staggering, what happened to the poor people who were standing in the grandstands and were in the path of those car parts.
Yeah, because it was randomized because there were individual car parts.
So you could be standing, and in one case, this really happened.
You could be standing and ended up just fine next to someone who was decapitated.
And nothing happened to you.
Very sadly, there was one little girl who was trampled.
Still holding on to her ice cream cone.
LeVeg died, like you said, but it was an instant thing.
I think 50 people died instantly and 83 spectators ended up dying and close to 200 ended up injured.
Including LeVeg, 84 people killed at this race.
So there was a really controversial decision that was made by the race director, and that was to allow 24 hours of Le Mans to continue.
This happened at like hour two and a half.
It sounds crazy.
And you're like, what a disgusting psychopath.
History has actually vindicated the race director.
I don't know his name, but that he made the right move because had he said, you know, the race needs to end right now, all those spectators who needed aid and whose lives would have probably ended had they not received aid pretty quickly, the emergency crews trying to reach them would have been swamped by all the spectators leaving all at the same time.