10/02/2010 - Tarheel Chapter Drivers' School - VIR Full Course (*)

[glindsay]

The following statement has been approved by the BMW CCA National Office:

The incident occurred at Virginia International Raceway on Saturday Oct. 2nd during the first A group session of the morning. The car impacted against a tire barrier near corner worker station number 1. Occupants of the car were driver (Ken Price) and the instructor (Glen Speakman) . Both men were taken by helicopter to Duke University Hospital in Durham NC. Mr. Speakman has been released as of 10/4/2010, and Mr. Price is still a patient at Duke University Hospital.

[tommyboy]

Hello to all. Hope the guys are recovering from the accident.
I was at the event as well the crew and staff was great ,helpful and other than the unfortunate incident the whole weekend was great. Met some new people {friend} had a fantastic instructor and just had a blast all together .
Thanks to all who made it happen, see you folks soon at the next event. Tommy.

[flanast]

Cheers to that Tommy. We had a great group of people in the D group. Thanks to all those who put the pig picking together. It provided a great opportunity for some of us newbees to get to know each other.

[1996 328ti]

Posted on behalf of JoElla.

Friends,

Here are the individual websites for Glen Speakman and Ken Price. Both are continuing to recover. Both will have extraordinary bills resulting from their injuries due to the wreck at VIR. Many of you have already donated and are spreading the word. If you have not done so and are awaiting the sites, see below.

Glen:
http://www.motorsportreg.com/index.c...BDBC93EE1A0A01

Ken:
http://www.motorsportreg.com/index.c...5F5323B2188B4F