Toyota test driver killed in LFA versus 3 series accident Nordschleife.

[1M5]

This is terrible news.
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[FLYINV]

Very sad for all involved
I guess it shows that all that skill and experience still doesn't guarentee your safety when high speeds are involved....

[djs325]

For a second I thought I'd driven on that highway (Number 410, though in the accident video the marshal mentions 'vier und neunzig, meaning 94 - there is an L94 road which runs from Highway 410 to Nürburg)!

[Black5]

Tragic, but somehow a fitting way to go for such a man - At high speed, in a car he loved and helped develop.
Hope the seriously injured occupants of the other car get through OK.

[StreekG]

Thats no good i wonder what caused him to veer off.

[johnm]

Highly unlikely he ran out of skill. At 67 and doing something albeit enjoyable but potentially stressful/ adrenalin creating, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a medical thing.

Cheers
JM

[the afro guy]

I'd be more inclined to say that something on the car broke. I can't imagine toyota would let their top test driver out if he had a potentially life threatening medical condition. You never know though!

[Sherweeeny]

whatever it was, atleast is a was a meaningful death. at that age, he didnt had much left, and he died in his greatest creation.
RIP.

in saying that, the 3 series is safer.