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200-MPH Crash at Bonneville Salt Flats Kills Longtime LSR Enthusiast Barry Bryant
WENDOVER, Utah — Barry Bryant, 46, of Anderson, California, died on Sunday when he lost control of his car on the long course at the Bonneville Salt Flats at some 200 miles per hour and crashed. The accident shut down the course on the opening weekend of Speed Week. Bryant was taken off the track in an ambulance and transported toward the Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City, about 130 miles away from the race site, but he died of his injuries before getting there. Bryant was racing in a modified coupe, the #216 Tom Thumb Special, when his car rolled over near the five-mile marker, local media reported. The car disintegrated on impact. On Monday, the Salt Lake Tribune published a series of graphic photographs of the accident, in which the car appears to be blown to bits on impact. The Salt Lake Tribune noted that Bryant was a member of the Bryant Automotive family that included his father, Tom Bryant, and brothers Dan and Jeff, who worked in the family auto business, and all of whom were dedicated to LSR racing. The family Web site proudly lists seven family members in the Bonneville 200-mph Club: father Tom, his brother, his three sons including Barry, a grandson and a nephew. Barry Bryant had been racing for more than 30 years. A cousin, Kathryn Lindstrand, was quoted by the Tribune as calling land-speed racing "the bond — the glue — that held the family together." Inside Line says: Tragic accident, but this man died doing something that he and his family loved. — Laura Sky Brown, Correspondent
