Crash Of Cars Club
Looterkings – Shop and Equipment. Shop and Equipment. You will find a shop in each level, where you can buy new equipment. You can only carry one weapon, one armor and one hat at a time. If you want to switch gear, you will have to re-visit the shop. Once bought items are stored for your convenience in the shop and can be re-equipped anytime. Looterkings - Looterkings is a procedural dungeon crawler, in which you won't fight alone and you won't be the good guy. Play together with up to 3 friends and take control of the most wretched goblin horde ever to have crawled out of the caves deep beneath the earth. Looterkings looterkings is a procedural dungeon crawler, in which you won't fight alone and you won't be the good guy. Play together with up to 3 other friends and impersonate the most wretched goblin horde ever to have crawled out of the deep caves below the earth. Looterkings is a procedural dungeon crawler, in which you won't fight alone and you won't be the good guy. Play together with up to 3 friends and take control of the most wretched goblin horde ever to have crawled out of the caves deep beneath the earth.
BUCKTOWN — A pileup of nearly 60 cars and trucks shut down the Kennedy Expressway Wednesday morning amid a mid-April snowstorm,. The Dunn County Car Club organized a road trip last weekend to honor the memory of Christopher Becker, 19, who died in a car crash in the town of Menomonie on Feb. The members assembled a caravan of vehicles Saturday morning to make their way to Wisconsin Rapids for Becker’s burial.
The incident occurred at a Porsche Club of America event at Roebling Road Raceway in Georgia.
A track day at Roebling Road Raceway in Bloomingdale, Georgia, ended in tragedy last weekend when a car crashed into a wall at high speed, killing the driver and severely injuring the instructor on board, reports WTOC. The event was a high-performance driving school put on by the Porsche Club of America, which gives owners the chance to drive their Porsches the way they were meant to be driven away from public roads.
The driver was identified by the Savannah Morning Newsas 70-year-old Robert Charles Wilson, a veteran driver at Porsche Club of America track events. Witnesses described on the Rennlist forum how Wilson appeared to not brake at the end of the main straightaway going into turn one. The car reportedly swerved to avoid another car before exiting the track and colliding with a berm at 100 mph.
No official cause of the crash has been announced yet, but witnesses suspect that the driver had a medical condition such as a heart attack while driving on the track, causing him to lose control of the car. The instructor reportedly took the wheel and managed to avoid the other car before the crash.
The PCA has successfully run high-performance driving schools for many years, and they run a rather tight ship. Wilson was driving in the blue run group, which is made of drivers with an intermediate level of track experience. The fact that Wilson had an instructor on board in this group indicates that he might have been in the process of being checked out for advancement to the next more experienced run group. In any case, the fact that PCA authorized him for the blue group indicates that his age, alone, probably had nothing to do with his driving skill.
Groups such as PCA and the BMW Car Club of America rely heavily on having well-trained instructors on board with drivers until they display a high level of competence on the track and can be trusted to venture out alone safely. Yet other organizations, like SCCA Track Night in America, don't use instructors at all, which may be why it's the least expensive way to get on the track. I've attended several Track Night events, and despite my initial fears of complete anarchy on the track, they have all gone without incident. Both approaches have their merits.
(UPDATE: Heyward Wagner, SCCA's Director of Experiential Programs, corrected me on the motivation behind Track Night in America not using instructors. 'TNiA doesn't do in-car instruction as the program is built on a recreational, not educational philosophy,' he told me.)
Anyone going to a track day it just looking to have a good time driving fast in a safe, legal environment. Deadly incidents such as this are extremely rare, but unfortunately, they do occasionally happen.
James Earl 'Jim' Winner, Jr. (July 12, 1929 – September 14, 2010) was an American entrepreneur and chairman of Winner International who created The Club, an anti-theft device that is attached and locked on to a car's steering wheel, making it more difficult for car thieves to steal the car. By 1994, sales of the device had reached 14 million units.[1]
Winner was born in July 1929 in Transfer, Pennsylvania, where he grew up on a dairy farm to a relatively poor family and attended a one-room schoolhouse, stating in an interview that when he would speak to a group he was 'comfortable saying that no one in the room was raised poorer than me' when they were growing up. He served in the United States Army in South Korea and attended Shenango Valley Business College.[2] Winner worked variously selling chemicals, pianos and vacuum cleaners.[3]
The inspiration for the Club came after his Cadillac was stolen, and he remembered back to his time serving in the Army when the steering wheels of jeeps would be protected using chains. Charles Johnson. a mechanic who said he had worked on developing the product with Winner before the incident in which the Cadillac was stolen claimed that he had not been properly credited for the development of the device and that the two men had made a verbal agreement in 1985 under which they would split any profits from the sale of the Club.[4] Winner acknowledged that Johnson had been paid a fee to work on developing the device, but that the basic design, such as the pronged hooks that secure it to the steering wheel, were part of Winner's original design.[2] A lawsuit that Johnson filed to pursue the claim was settled in 1993 for what was reported to be $10.5 million.[4]
Winner International was established in 1986 in Sharon, Pennsylvania to market the Club and other security and safety products.[3] While similar locking devices had been invented decades earlier, The Club's success was credited to heavy television advertising featuring police officers talking about the Club with the slogan 'If you can't steer it, you can't steal it' and distribution through major national retailers including Kmart, Sears and Wal-Mart.[5] Winner acknowledged that the Club could be defeated by breaking the lock or sawing through the steering wheel. While improvements were made to the device, the Club could not defeat determined thieves but Winner noted that it offered the benefit of encouraging car thieves to avoid cars equipped with the Club and to avoid the time and effort needed to bypass the device. By 1993, sales of the Club had reached 10 million units. Winner would say that he had a love for sales and that 'If it weren't the Club, it would have been something else'.[3] In addition to such brand extensions of the original product including the Boat Club, the Truck Club and the Bike Club, another follow-up product was the 'Door Club', a security device that debuted in the early 1990s for use in homes, which Winter forecast would outsell the car device as 'there are more doors than cars'.[1][6]
Winner was active in the community in Sharon, where his company was based, assisting charitable organizations and promoting the area as a tourist destination.[3] The Winners were recognized with the 2010 Bill Knecht Tourism Award by the area tourism board for their efforts since the 1970s to bring visitors to Mercer County, Pennsylvania.[2] Remembering the financial difficulties that he had faced growing up, Winner supported the charity Shoe the Children that provided money to pay for shoes for needy children.[2]
A resident of Clark, Pennsylvania and Hollywood, Florida, Winner died at age 81 on September 14, 2010 after the Lexus SUV he was driving on Miola Road in Highland Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania crossed the divider into oncoming traffic and crashed head on into a Chevy Blazer, killing Winner and both passengers in the other vehicle.[2][7][8] There was no immediate explanation from Pennsylvania State Police investigating the accident as to why Winner's car crossed into the opposite lane. He is survived by his second wife, Donna, as well as by four children and grandchildren. He had divorced his first wife.[3] Winner and his wife also had a home in Cook Forest, Pennsylvania.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ abvia Los Angeles Times News Service. 'The Club: Crime does pay as never before for protection device industry', Star-News, December 18, 1994. Accessed September 16, 2010.
- ^ abcdeOve, Tortsen. 'The Club' inventor dies in car crash: Sharon businessman made millions from car anti-theft device', Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 16, 2010. Accessed September 16, 2010.
- ^ abcdeWeber, Bruce. 'Jim Winner, Developer of the Club Anti-Theft Device, Dies at 81', The New York Times, September 16, 2010. Accessed September 16, 2010.
- ^ abvia Associated Press. 'Settlement is reached in suit over anti-theft device the Club', Sun Journal (Lewiston), February 19, 1993. Accessed September 16, 2010.
- ^Brown, Emma. 'James Winner, inventor of 'The Club,' dies', The Washington Post, September 15, 2010. Accessed September 16, 2010.
- ^Staff. 'MAKER OF THE CLUB SEEKS BROADER MARKET', Chicago Tribune, January 16, 1994. Accessed September 16, 2010.
- ^ abStarmack, Jeanne (2010-09-16). 'Sharon mourns death of magnate'. Youngstown Vindicator. Archived from the original on 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2010-09-16.
- ^'Preliminary Cause Released in Winner Death'. WKBN-TV. 2010-09-16. Archived from the original on 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2010-09-16.