Fitchett v. Buchanan

The plaintiffs, Lucille Fitchett and John Berger, were injured while watching automobile races from the grandstand at the Yakima Speed Bowl on August 20, 1966. A collision of two racing cars at the north turn of the oval race track caused a wheel from one of them to become disengaged. The wheel was propelled over a 4-foot rock wall (called a crash wall), then up an incline (some 13 vertical feet in height) which separated the track from the grandstand, then over a 4-foot wire fence and handrail for the stands and into the lower seat area, where the plaintiffs were sitting.

This action for…