dorchester drag 11/6/11

[chrisheltra]

Was checking for an obituary and found this. I feel they could have left out Taras name but it is what it is now.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2...way-kills-man/

DORCHESTER -- The Dorchester Dragway is a place where roaring engines, squealing tires and white-knuckle excitement are the norm.

On Sunday, it became a place of tragedy.

Barry Wright, 40, of North Charleston sat behind the wheel of a black Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck at the Dorchester Dragway around 9:15 p.m. Tara Griffin, a 24-year-old Summerville woman, drove a white Ford Mustang in the next lane over.

At some point after they gunned it off the line, the back of the Mustang "got loose," from Griffin, she told Dorchester County deputies. Her car spun and clipped the back of Wright's truck.

Wright lost control, and the truck rolled over, according to County Coroner Chris Nisbet. The truck pinned Wright against one of the light timing poles, where Wright died of positional asphyxia, Nisbet said.

Wright became trapped inside his truck and couldn't breathe. He had died by the time rescue workers arrived.

Gerald Mishoe, a regular at the track, said the racing usually goes well into the night and sometimes into morning. On Sunday, with Wright's truck attached to the timing pole and his mother crying, Mishoe said he found himself anxious to leave.

"I've never seen anyone killed or hurt seriously," he said.

The Delee family opened the Dorchester Dragway more than 25 years ago off U.S. Highway 78 just past the Oakridge Landfill. Family members believe their strip, an old cotton field that four brothers converted into a race track, marked the first minority- owned dragway.

People gather there every Sunday night to barbecue, sell refreshments and cheer on their favorite cars. Spectators pay $5 to get into the weekly "grudge matches."