MAD_DOHC

I guess NoVa didn't want to feel left out after 564. Anyone on here involved again? They only got busted for trespassing though.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...6071801571.html

By Ian Shapira
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 19, 2006; Page B01

In the predawn hours Sunday, more than 60 people -- mostly young men in their late teens and early twenties -- showed up for some drag races at an unusual spot: the local trash incinerator in Fairfax County.

But before the rubber started burning at the county Energy Resource Recovery Facility in Lorton, police said, officers acted on a tip and stopped the races as they were being organized. They arrested 59 adults and two juveniles and charged them with trespassing on private property.

Police said the participants, mostly men and several from Prince William County, were arrested about 1:45 a.m. as some of them were preparing their cars to race on a 1 1/2 -mile-long access road at the 500-acre facility. When police arrived, they blocked the cars in, said Officer Shelley Broderick, a Fairfax County police spokeswoman.

"Somebody called in that morning because they observed vehicles on the property that looked suspicious,"
Broderick said. "It's not something that happens all the time in the county . . . but Fairfax County police take the issue of drag racing seriously. It's a very dangerous thing to partake in, and people can die as a result of doing it. Anybody that has information on these incidents is always asked to call the police department so we can investigate."

Drag racing and other reckless driving have caused dozens of deaths in the Washington area in the past few years, especially among teenagers.

In the fall of 2004, 17 teenagers were killed in car crashes across the area, leading the Virginia and Maryland legislatures to launch efforts to make teenagers more responsible behind the wheel. Most recently, in March 2005, a West Springfield High School senior who was sitting in the passenger seat of a car was killed after his friend engaged in what police called an "exhibition of speed" with another teenage driver.

Police said the group Sunday morning was made up mostly of young adults, with two men in their thirties and forties. It was unclear how the group members organized and how they knew one another, Broderick said. Many of the participants were from Manassas, Woodbridge and Nokesville.

Amarjit Riat, the chief of the Energy Resource Recovery Facility, said no gate blocks access to the road where the group was setting up the races because trucks deliver materials to the complex throughout the night. He and other county officials might consider adding speed bumps and installing a gate, he said.

"I was surprised that this thing happened. I could not imagine 60 people coming here on site with their cars," Riat said.

Joyce Doughty, the director of the county's Division of Solid Waste Disposal and Resource Recovery, said speed bumps were placed on the site in the early 1990s after a drag racing incident. "We thought we had discouraged this type of activity," she said.

The resource recovery facility, in the 9800 block of Furnace Road, burns county trash to produce electrical power, Doughty said. The facility takes up about 26 of the site's 500 acres, with the rest dominated by a landfill that has not been used since 1995, she said.

Lord Humongous

I heard that on Tommy and Rumble this morning and they played the clip of the kid whining about how the Hampton Rds government should build a track.

I was going to call in and point out that people have tried to build a track but it's the cities that won't let it happen, but then I realized I really didn't give a shit and drove to work

Zero

Well...street racing like is bad and so on but, at least they had the decency to do it far out of the way late at night so no minivan full of pregnant women and kittens would've gotten hit.

IEAT50S

1. its in fairfax county
2. if your car traps over 100mph, you have no room to slow down
3. its all slow shitty cars
4. see number 1

J-DIRTY30

Digging the hole deeper and deeper.

TRU

and its govt property....AND yea, its fairfax county. lol

catfSSh

1.5 miles isnt enough to slow down?
ive never seen the road but that seems like plenty of room.

Jarrod

But then again, they were probably racing for more than a quarter mile.

IEAT50S

Theres around 5 speed bumps there...


4 on the way in, so that moves the start line up and then you have one at the end right before a huge turn. Yeah, I really want to slow down after racing and hit that...or the really deep turn after that.

fobcivicracer

um...jus to let u kno they mark off where the race ends...i been dere once and actually watched and den i left the scene...if ur there u would kno that they have enough room to slow down...but i kno a few people that went and got caught that night

and jus cuz of the name dont think im a racer im jus an asian guy that has a civic and everyone automaticly thinks im a street racer so the username doesnt mean shit if u read this....