Word: guardrails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years on the stock-car circuit won 54 Grand National races-a record that few experts ever expected to see beaten. Papa Petty is now 53; he walks with a permanent limp, the souvenir of a day at Daytona, Fla., when his car hurtled through a guardrail at 155 m.p.h., soared 150 ft. through the air, landed upside down in a parking lot. Lee retired from racing in 1962, but he is still a familiar figure around the track. Last May he was in Darling ton, S.C., to watch Son Richard break his record by winning victory...
...accident occurred on the Taconic Parkway in the Berkshire Mountains. The ear went out of control and careened along a guardrail. When the guardrail came to an end, the car left the road entirely and collided with a wall of rock...
Another workman said after the accident that the scaffolding had a tendency to sway. When one of the painters started to remove a screen from a third floor window, he lost his balance and grabbed a wooden guardrail which then broken...
...Third Day. Looking agitated, George Peppard climbs through a broken guardrail, glances below at the riverbank where his Lincoln Continental and a take-home cocktail waitress have come to a bad end. He staggers off to a plush roadhouse where he is eyed knowingly by the bartender, the pianist, and his waiting chauffeur. He blinks, confused, unable to place faces but sensing in the situation something familiar. The familiar something is, of course, amnesia-the basic blackout of more suspense melodramas than most moviegoers care to remember...
...happened at Monza midway through the 1961 season, when the Ferrari of Germany's flamboyant Wolfgang von Trips swerved suddenly, with Jimmy's Lotus directly behind. For one horrible instant, the two cars touched at 150 m.p.h. The Ferrari hurtled up an embankment, ricocheted off a steel guardrail, sheared through a wire fence, and spun end over end, back onto the track. Clark leaped out of his crumpled Lotus and pushed Trips's car off the road. There was nothing he could do for Trips-or for 17 spectators who had been leaning on the fence. "When...