Jim Clark Rally deaths 'could have been avoided' BBC Reporting Scotland
Three deaths at a rally in the Scottish Borders could have been avoided if people had been clearly banned from standing in the area where the crash took place, a sheriff has ruled.
A fatal accident inquiry was held into the deaths at the Jim Clark Rally in 2014, and a fourth fatality at the Snowman Rally near Inverness in 2013.
Sheriff Kenneth Maciver found no reasonable precautions could have avoided the death at the Snowman Rally.
A joint inquiry examined both events.
Iain Provan, 64, Elizabeth Allan, 63, and Len Stern, 71, died at the Jim Clark Rally.
Joy Robson, 51, lost her life at the Snowman Rally the previous year.
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No one told the badger at 00:50 (bottom right) that it was a dangerous area. Badgers should be better warned. May the deceased rest in peace and may common sense prevail in future, have personal responsibility, accidents can happen, the people drifting out onto the edge of the tarmac to see the cars were placing themselves in the potential of harm, a reasonable situational awareness would inform you of that regardless of your expectation or need for a third party such as the organisers to come and explicitly inform you that standing closer and close to cars in competition would place you in potential peril.
As everyone knows, motorsport is dangerous, the deaths are tragic, but we cant lose sight that motorsport is dangerous and we accept when we go to watch a race or a rally you are stepping onto danger, its the nature of the beast, to disband the jim clark would be tragic in itself, I think we need TRAINED marshals, not people turning up on the day to be a marshal, I have witnessed spectators telling marshals to fuck off because they have been told to move, totally out of order, but I fear its all to late ……