I personally have never gone to a monster truck show and after reading about this, I don’t think I care to go. Just a little over a week ago, a 6 year old boy was struck in the head by flying debris from one of the monster trucks and now this.
A promoter for the Motor Sports Monster Truck & Thrill Show has died from injuries after an accident at the Dane County Coliseum, just over a week after a 6-year-old boy was killed in a monster truck event in Tacoma, Wash.
The Dane County Coroner said 41-year-old George Eisenhart Jr. of Chardon, Ohio, died after an accident Saturday night in Madison. A witness told the Wisconsin State Journal that Eisenhart walked in front of one of the monster trucks just as it was about to pass by.
The newspaper said organizers immediately halted the remainder of the show. On Jan. 16 at the Tacoma Dome, Sebastian Hizey died after he was struck in the head by a chunk of metal that tore off a truck doing doughnuts during the Monster Jam show.
I don’t know how they could make these types of shows safer unless they were held in outside venues where they were not so close to the audience but then people would complain that they could not see the monster trucks good enough. I think I’ll just stay away from them. They are getting to be a bit too dangerous if you ask me.