Seguin, TX : Maine racing crash injures local woman on Sunday, 4th September 2016
Brenda Sue Carver, of Seguin, was traveling 140 miles per hour before her motorcycle exited the track Sunday at a land speed racing event in Maine.
Prior to the accident, at the runway’s one mile mark, Carver’s motorcycle was last timed traveling 223 miles per hour.
The motorcyclist was participating in an annual “Harvest Event” race, hosted by the Loring Timing Association, in Limestone, Maine. Loring races attract thrill seekers across America, according to Tim Kelly, Loring Timing Association Race Director. The volunteer racing association hosts three races each year at an abandoned air force base and attracts close to 200 racers annually.
The Seguin racer is no stranger to the Maine races. She had competed four other Loring racing events before, he said.
Still, days after the accident, little is known about what caused Carver to exit the track, Kelly said.
“I really don’t know (what happened),” said Kelly. “We looked at it, the police looked at it, and there was nothing that we saw on the vehicle after the crash that said ‘yeah that’s what caused it.’ She went through the mile fine at 230 something miles an hour, and then the vehicle started to veer to the left, it veered to the left and exited the track. Like I said we couldn’t find anything mechanically wrong with the bike. So we don’t know.”
Carver was tended to immediately, he said, because her vehicle came to a stop mere feet away from emergency personnel who were on stand-by at the runway.
The woman was immediately taken to the Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, he said, with many broken bones but no life threatening injuries.
“She’s doing good,” Kelly said. “She’s in the ICU more just to keep her sedated. She has to have a bunch of surgeries, but she’s very stable. It’s just going to take time. We are really happy for the services of our EMS people. Their volunteers did an excellent job and she’s in very good hands at Eastern Maine Medical Center.”
Racing accidents, like Carver’s, are few and far between, he said.
“This is our 16th race, we’ve had over 6,200 (timed track) runs and we have had four incidents on the track in 6,200 runs,” he said. “Only two of them required medical assistance.”
A number of safety measures are in place to prevent accidents, he said.
“We have a rule book that’s about 100 pages long and there are a significant amount of safety requirements as far as personal protective gear, tire inspections, vehicle inspections, that we go through very methodically to ensure the vehicles are safe to run.”
Eastern Maine Medical Center personnel were unable to comment on the condition of Carver nor confirm that she is a patient at the hospital.
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Maine racing crash injures local woman