Pardue v. Charlotte Motor Speedway, Inc.

The instant case does not involve an injury to a spectator. We have here the death of a voluntary participant who was killed on defendant’s race track while conducting high-speed tests of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company tires at a speed of about 150 miles per hour, when the right front tire on the automobile he was operating ruptured and the automobile crashed through a guard rail on the outside edge of the race track, fell approximately 50 feet to the ground, and struck a steel post which came through the left side window of the automobile killing the driver. Do the facts of this case…