TIL of the 1955 Le Mans disaster. French driver Pierre Levegh crashed into a crowd of spectators. The crash, explosion and subsequent fire killed 84 and injured more than 120. It is still the deadliest car race crash ever. en.wikipedia.org Submitted by triviafrenzy t3_11c6x40 on February 26, 2023 at 6:02 AM in todayilearned 37 comments 773
The_Presitator t1_ja2u7h8 wrote on February 26, 2023 at 12:48 PM There is an excellent engineering disaster podcast that did an episode of this. "Well there's your problem" is the name and they're hilarious if you don't mind them getting off topic occasionally. Permalink 15
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