Accomack County's Most Popular Sport? Drag Racing??

Sunday after Sunday this occurs on one of the two most popular traveled roads in this part of  Accomack County.  Sadly, this afternoon event has been allowed to continue  over the past few years... And it isn't always motorcycles....sometimes there are cars.

Staging for the event on this Sunday took place on Saxis Road at around 3:00 in the afternoon.

Maybe what so many people fail to realize is the fact this type of gathering can cause great danger to anyone in the area at the time. 

Many of us that use this road pay taxes and that alone should assure us access to roads without delay- with the exception of emergencies and farming.  That's where it should STOP!

NO ONE should have to WAIT for this on a public road !!!

I'm not concerned about WHO these people are.....I'm concerned about those that drive this road in an attempt to GET somewhere. 

Families are still leaving churches at this time of day, some have errands to run.  And let's not forget that within a few miles from this point is a very popular camp ground that has hundred of visitors in the area trying to enjoy their vacations and trying to get to the highway to perhaps shop or visit many of the tourists attactions in the area.

  Traffic gets BLOCKED in both directions.

So be sure to use caution as you drive Horsey Road, Saxis Road - any  stretch of it.......

Calls to the Accomack County Sheriff's Office only gets  the racing canceled for the day...

Drag Racer Killed During Qualifying Round

OLD BRIDGE, N.J. (AP) - A drag racing driver ran through a net at the end of a track and died of head injuries in a crash during a qualifying round at the NHRA SuperNationals at a New Jersey raceway Friday, state police said.

The driver, whose name has not been released, crashed at Raceway Park in Old Bridge, N.J., Sgt. Stephen Jones said.

According to the organizer's website, Sportsman qualifying was under way at the time of the accident.

The incident comes nearly two years after top racer Scott Kalitta died when his Funny Car burst into flames and crashed at the end of the track in central New Jersey.

Kalitta's Toyota Solara was traveling at about 300 mph when it burst into flames.

New Jersey State Police investigators determined that "catastrophic mechanical failure" caused the fuel-fired explosion.

The 1994 and 1995 Top Fuel season champion had 18 career victories.

In February, a spectator died after being hit by a tire from a crashing dragster at the NHRA Arizona Nationals. The woman was watching a first-round Top Fuel run when Antron Brown's Matco Tools/U.S. Army dragster went out of control on the strip and its left rear wheel came off.

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