Le Mans race 1955.
Did anybody else watch the documentary on BBC4 at 9.00pm about the 1955 24 hour Le Mans race. It was an amazing program about one of the Mercedes race cars that crashed into the crowd killing 83 people (including the driver Pierre Levegh) and injuring another 120. Many of the spectators were standing on trestle tables to get a better view and as the car flew into the crowd a lot of them were decapitated or cut in half.
Ironically the driver who was blamed for the crash died later in a road crash on the Guildford bypass whilst overtaking another car in the rain - the car that he crashed into was a Mercedes.
If you get a chance to watch it on the BBCi player or anything similar it is well worth it, not in anyway gory but a real eye opener.