There may be a relationship, but not a responsibility on SCCA's or the Solo
II Safety Program's part. We are (mostly) not doctors, and are not
performing physical examinations on all drivers before permitting them to go
out on course.
If someone has a medical incident during competition -- coronary, stroke,
bloodclot, gallstone attack, epileptic fit, insulin reaction, whatever --
that is beyond our responsibility simply because it is beyond the expertise
of the average individual to recognize it and do anything about it before it
happens. As human beings, we would do what we could to help the stricken
individual. As an organizing club, we cannot be held liable for such
incidents. It is not chargeable to the event or against the safety record of
Solo II. (or road racing or rally or wherever it happens).
To hold the event or SCCA responsible for such an fatality would be like
holding your boss responsible if you had a coronary at work, holding the
state responsible if you had it while driving on the turnpike, holding NBC
responsible if you had it while watching NASCAR on TV, holding your wife
responsible if you had it during sex.
No one is "responsible" -- no one caused or permitted this fatality to
happen because of any lack of attention or diligence to event safety. It
just happened. This was not an *accident*, it was a medical emergency. Even
a bad attorney ought to be able to defend that one.
IMHO
--Rocky
-----Original Message-----
From: Mdmotorsprt@aol.com <Mdmotorsprt@aol.com>
To: aschmiechen@discovercolor.com <aschmiechen@discovercolor.com>;
eric@mail.brown911.com <eric@mail.brown911.com>; rocky@tri.net
<rocky@tri.net>; thill@novaengr.com <thill@novaengr.com>;
autox@autox.team.net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, July 30, 2001 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: Safety statistics
>In can, and odes have a relation to the event: he was driving, and on
course at the time, it ws VERY hot, and th car was very hot in side. Dosnet
matter abotu how or why it happened, the fact is the deaths occured during
an SCCA sanctiiened event, while in competiton. The minutiae will be be the
factor that is looked at, and a good attornet will rip it apart. They will
drive home the point that if not for the heat, if not for the heightned
adrenaline of competiton, and if certain medical contions were not know,
then why weren't known, why? In the heat of a court battle, the siomple fact
that heart attack can occur annywhere won't fly. That weak argument will get
lost quickly.
>
>mike d
>
>In a message dated Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:36:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Andrew Schmiechen <aschmiechen@discovercolor.com> writes:
>
>> Can you really relate a heart attack to Solo II safety? They may have
been
>> driving in a Solo, but the cause of death had nothing to do with the
event.
>>
>> Just my thoughts.
>>
>> -A.
>>
>>
>> > From: Mdmotorsprt@aol.com
>> > Reply-To: Mdmotorsprt@aol.com
>> > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:23:18 EDT
>> > To: <eric@mail.brown911.com>, <rocky@tri.net>, <thill@novaengr.com>,
>> > <autox@autox.team.net>
>> > Subject: RE: Safety statistics
>> >
>> > Bad Stats. Rocky is more correct: This year alone two deaths from heart
>> > attack, years past that I know for sure: one driver AND a passenger.
>
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