This is why it drives me crazy/scares the crap out of me that tracks don't have track personnel or deputies keeping people away from the fence. Every track that I go to except Clay County (I think), you can walk right up to the catch fence. I have seen kids and adults right next to and in some cases leaning on the fence as cars were going by. What needs to be done is erect a second fence 6-8 feet back from the catch fence to keep fans back. It only needs to be 3 or 4 feet tall, just enough to keep people back. In the Houston wreck, people would have probably still had had debris hitting them, because of the carbon fiber coming apart, but there was at least one woman reported to be stuck under the fence. I was at the THAT All Star race a few years ago when cars got into and wiped out the catch fence in front of the grandstands. Had there been anyone standing against the fence like often happens, it would have been tragic. After that race I sent an email to the Vigo fair board asking them to look into putting up a fence, and basically got a reply thanking me for my concern.
