further details from the Motorsports Safety list:
Subject: Track Worker Killed at Nelson Ledges
Our deepest sympathy goes out to the family and
friends of Glenn Miller
from the SCCA NEOhio Region who was tragically
killed yesterday, May
15th, while working Flagging & Communications at
the Nelson Ledges Road
Course near Youngstown, Ohio. While I do not
have complete details, I
understand he was working a flagging station at
turn #11 durig a driver
school when there was a car-to-car incident.
While he was responding
to assist, another car made contact with Miller.
Other factors...New driver, wet grass.
Let's all be careful out there!
Dan the Safety Team Guy
on 5/17/05 16:01, Wm. Severin Thompson picked up his lightsaber and
engraved:
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> SCCA Worker Glenn Miller Killed in On-Track Incident
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> SCCA Staff Writers
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> TOPEKA, Kan. (May 16, 2005) - Glenn Miller, of Cleveland, Ohio, a longtime
> Sports Car Club of America member and experienced corner worker, succumbed
> to injuries after being struck by a car Sunday during an SCCA Driver's
> School at Nelson Ledges, a road racing course in Nelson, Ohio.
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> A continuous member since 1991, Miller, 58, was working as a volunteer
> member of the Lake Erie flagging and communications crew, an area-based
> group that serves to communicate course conditions to drivers and race
> stewards as well as assist in on-track incidents. An Acura driven by Kurt
> Niemeyer, of Cincinnati, spun, slid in wet grass and struck Miller, who was
> not behind positive protection at the time.
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> "Our thoughts and prayers are with Glenn's family and friends," SCCA
> President and CEO Steve Johnson said. "It's always difficult to lose one of
> our own, but particularly tragic when it is one of our 'angels in white'-our
> SCCA corner workers."
>
> Miller is survived by his wife, Carol, and three children.
>
> Update -
>
> Services will be Thursday, May 19 at 11:00 a.m. at Brickman Funeral Home,
> 21900 Euclid Ave., Euclid, OH (216) 481-5277 .
>
> The family is asking that donations be made to the family in Glenn's name at
> 1526 Larchmont, Cleveland, OH 44110.
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> Wm. Severin Thompson
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> wsthompson@thicko.com
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> www.thicko.com
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