"It just happened so fast, you couldn't really tell what had happened and who was what, but I just happened to follow the car with my phone," said Allen Chambers, who caught the crash on his cell phone.YUKON, Oklahoma -
Two Oklahoma NASCAR fans who were watching the Nationwide
race when a wreck sent debris into the stands, spoke out Thursday about what
they saw.
While at least three injured fans considered suing for
damages, the two Yukon men said their tickets had a disclaimer on the back and
the safety fence did its job.
The race cars were coming out of the third turn on the last
lap of the race when cars began spinning out of control. One of those cars
launched into the air and crashed into the safety fence.
"It just happened so fast, you
couldn't really tell what had happened and who was what, but I just happened to
follow the car with my phone," said Allen Chambers, who caught the crash on his
cell phone.
"There were paramedics, they
came up really quick. I mean they got there really fast and people just kind of
stayed out of the way and you could barely make out people [lying] down on the
ground."
Debris from the crushed car flew
into the stands where more than 30 fans suffered injuries.
"We went down a couple rows just
to kind of see. You could see the motor laying up against the fence and part
of, almost half of the front end was sitting up on our side of the fence," said
Chambers.
"A lot of people were talking
about how they didn't think the fence really did a good job, but in all reality
it did its job or there'd be hundreds more hurt."
Chambers and his friend were
back at the track the next day sitting in the front row for the Daytona 500. He
said the crash was a fluke and would not stop him from going back to the
racetrack to enjoy future NASCAR events.
