Worst crashes in history

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This list has been posted about the top 10 crashes in history. It got me thinking, who do you think should have made the list?

http://whatculture.com/sport/10-most-brutal-motocross-crashes-of-all-ti…
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hvaughn88 2/24/2015 8:00am
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Jbone wrote:
This list has been posted about the top 10 crashes in history. It got me thinking, who do you think should have made the list?

http://whatculture.com/sport/10-most-brutal-motocross-crashes-of-all-ti…
I bet there have been some nasty ones at the practice tracks that have never seen the light of day
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Randy Savage 2/24/2015 8:04am
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I think that list was pretty good. I would have placed the tortelli epic rag doll a little higher. I actually just clicked that link to make sure the tortelli crash was there. to me it's the top 1/2 wreck of all time...i've yet to see a full grown man tossed off a bike like a hamburger wrapper in the wind quite like that.
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FWYT 2/24/2015 8:14am
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There was a pretty heavy one with, I think, Brian Manley getting railroaded by a few guys as he was picking himself up. Harsh.
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Jbone 2/24/2015 8:16am
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I know what you mean, will have been some gnarly diggers at the practice track that nobody had the pleasure of witnessing. had some myself!
Dude, i have no idea how Tortelli just hops back up after that, same with the Pichon crash!

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Jbone 2/24/2015 8:18am
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I thought the Vohland crash where he was hit by the whole pack deserved to make it. that was brutal, similar to the Alessi one
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hammertime 2/24/2015 8:20am
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zach bell bouncing off the floor a few yrs ago hands down.

jason upshaw flip coming down the peristyle in 86.
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Jbone 2/24/2015 8:22am
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hammertime wrote:
zach bell bouncing off the floor a few yrs ago hands down.

jason upshaw flip coming down the peristyle in 86.
Havent seen the Upshaw one in years!
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Steve125 2/24/2015 8:28am
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FWYT wrote:
There was a pretty heavy one with, I think, Brian Manley getting railroaded by a few guys as he was picking himself up. Harsh.
The one I thought of exactly.. Manley picking up his bike (may have been at Broome Tioga) and Bradshaw, Dowd and Kiedrowski nailed him. One of them centerpunched him like you said. Nasty hit for sure.
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Reed at Millville doing the Flying W a couple years ago is noteworthy.
Bradshaw at Indianapolis in 1993 (cost him the title in my opinion).
Albertyn at (pick one). But hitting the deer at the MXdN takes the cake.
Doug Henry doing the super-duper mega launch at Budds still gives me goos bumps.
Carmichael crashing at Anaheim on the Honda and Larocco ran him over. That was not pretty.
Kenny Bartram trying to make the Dallas main around 2001 or 2002 and broke his KTM 250SX in half at the stem.

There are many more, but those are the few that immediately come to mind.
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Seamorbutts 2/24/2015 8:42am
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James Stewarts crash in Vegas on his Kawasaki 125 should be in there. Take TP crash out, It doesn't belong in Motocross/Supercross.
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jeffro503 2/24/2015 8:51am
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FWYT wrote:
There was a pretty heavy one with, I think, Brian Manley getting railroaded by a few guys as he was picking himself up. Harsh.
Chip....that was the one that first came to my mind when I opened this thread. He went down hard and then got nailed by multiple riders. I think Troy Ohio....94' ? Brian used to post here as well....maybe he still checks in every once in a while. BobbyM might know.
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Atmos wrote:
Reed at Millville doing the Flying W a couple years ago is noteworthy. Bradshaw at Indianapolis in 1993 (cost him the title in my opinion). Albertyn...
Reed at Millville doing the Flying W a couple years ago is noteworthy.
Bradshaw at Indianapolis in 1993 (cost him the title in my opinion).
Albertyn at (pick one). But hitting the deer at the MXdN takes the cake.
Doug Henry doing the super-duper mega launch at Budds still gives me goos bumps.
Carmichael crashing at Anaheim on the Honda and Larocco ran him over. That was not pretty.
Kenny Bartram trying to make the Dallas main around 2001 or 2002 and broke his KTM 250SX in half at the stem.

There are many more, but those are the few that immediately come to mind.
And Alessi being used as a speed bump by about the whole 450 field.
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wanglimp 2/24/2015 9:27am
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I know it's not the 250 or 450 class, but the kid that broke his femur at the MEC this year was pretty gnarly. After he flips over the bike you can see his leg folding the wrong way.Sick
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jeffro503 2/24/2015 9:28am
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Hattica77 wrote:
If the list went to top 20 I may make it in. Fast forward to the 3:15 mark on this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrRpLyp-spA&feature=related
Was that you? Holy hell I remember seeing that in the video. Glad you are ok.......one hellva huck for sure. No broken bones at all?
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The guy in Miami who would launch something like 50-70 feet up, ditch the bike and grab on to a net for dear life. There's a video of falling and I guess dying on youtube somewhere when he missed the net in front of a big crowd at the old Orange bowl. Most sickening crash I've ever seen
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This one was close call

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Glory 2/24/2015 9:52am
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This crash in Sweden in 2004(?) was pretty brutal. Crash @0:15

https://youtu.be/TcIonRi0ABw
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I think Zach Bell's triple to flat crash in Dallas should have made the list. That was hard to watch.
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RY4N37 2/24/2015 9:58am
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Glory wrote:
This crash in Sweden in 2004(?) was pretty brutal. Crash @0:15

https://youtu.be/TcIonRi0ABw
The stewart crash from Highpoint in that vid was an absolutely brutal one.

I remember Tim Gajser had a big off at the British GP a couple of years back and his bike ended up in the crowd. That was real nasty
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Atmos wrote:
Reed at Millville doing the Flying W a couple years ago is noteworthy. Bradshaw at Indianapolis in 1993 (cost him the title in my opinion). Albertyn...
Reed at Millville doing the Flying W a couple years ago is noteworthy.
Bradshaw at Indianapolis in 1993 (cost him the title in my opinion).
Albertyn at (pick one). But hitting the deer at the MXdN takes the cake.
Doug Henry doing the super-duper mega launch at Budds still gives me goos bumps.
Carmichael crashing at Anaheim on the Honda and Larocco ran him over. That was not pretty.
Kenny Bartram trying to make the Dallas main around 2001 or 2002 and broke his KTM 250SX in half at the stem.

There are many more, but those are the few that immediately come to mind.
UpTiTe wrote:
And Alessi being used as a speed bump by about the whole 450 field.
Yep. This is my vote.
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Juss 2/24/2015 10:13am
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Stewart's had some nasty crashes at Daytona also!
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Glory wrote:
This crash in Sweden in 2004(?) was pretty brutal. Crash @0:15

https://youtu.be/TcIonRi0ABw
That looked really bad. Gave me the chills.

I think that Alessi crash and Henry's hill climb were the worst of the OP.
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Psc19933 2/24/2015 10:58am
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Glory wrote:
This crash in Sweden in 2004(?) was pretty brutal. Crash @0:15

https://youtu.be/TcIonRi0ABw
As soon as I saw this thread, this was the crash that came to my mind. Absolutely awful.
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Rdubs19 wrote:
The guy in Miami who would launch something like 50-70 feet up, ditch the bike and grab on to a net for dear life. There's a...
The guy in Miami who would launch something like 50-70 feet up, ditch the bike and grab on to a net for dear life. There's a video of falling and I guess dying on youtube somewhere when he missed the net in front of a big crowd at the old Orange bowl. Most sickening crash I've ever seen
I was at this event. They closed it down and made us all evacuate the stadium after the crash. Freaky. Never seen a video of it.

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Rdubs19 wrote:
The guy in Miami who would launch something like 50-70 feet up, ditch the bike and grab on to a net for dear life. There's a...
The guy in Miami who would launch something like 50-70 feet up, ditch the bike and grab on to a net for dear life. There's a video of falling and I guess dying on youtube somewhere when he missed the net in front of a big crowd at the old Orange bowl. Most sickening crash I've ever seen
jasonward73 wrote:
I was at this event. They closed it down and made us all evacuate the stadium after the crash. Freaky. Never seen a video of it.
I was at this event. They closed it down and made us all evacuate the stadium after the crash. Freaky. Never seen a video of it.

it is easily found on LiveLeak.
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Rdubs19 wrote:
The guy in Miami who would launch something like 50-70 feet up, ditch the bike and grab on to a net for dear life. There's a...
The guy in Miami who would launch something like 50-70 feet up, ditch the bike and grab on to a net for dear life. There's a video of falling and I guess dying on youtube somewhere when he missed the net in front of a big crowd at the old Orange bowl. Most sickening crash I've ever seen
jasonward73 wrote:
I was at this event. They closed it down and made us all evacuate the stadium after the crash. Freaky. Never seen a video of it.
I was at this event. They closed it down and made us all evacuate the stadium after the crash. Freaky. Never seen a video of it.

usp4u wrote:
it is easily found on LiveLeak.
Easily found on youtube as well.
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Falcon 2/24/2015 1:59pm
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I've never seen it, but apparently Greg Albertyn hitting a deer at the MXDN one year was pretty brutal.

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