Two track safety workers received medical attention with one sustaining serious injuries when they were struck by a car at the end of Saturday’s TUDOR United SportsCar Championship race at Belle Isle Park in Detroit.
Track worker injured after sports car crashes into safety truck
A track suffered broken ribs, a collapsed lung and other injuries when a sports car collided with a safety truck.
The incident occurred in wet and raining conditions when James Davison lost control in Turn 1 just after taking the checkered flag. Davison’s Aston Martin rear-ended a stationary safety truck with such force that the truck lifted off the ground. Workers were out of the safety work and attending to another vehicle at the time of the impact.
Video was inconclusive as to how the track workers were injured. The International Motor Sports Association tweeted Saturday one person was held overnight in a local hospital for further evaluation, while another was treated and released from an on-site medical facility.
On Sunday, the sanctioning body updated the condition of the hospitalized worker, who’s in stable condition.
“IMSA has been informed that the safety worker at a Detroit area hospital who was injured during Saturday’s race is in stable condition with a number of broken ribs, collapsed lung and a non-operative injury to his spleen and kidney.”
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