Seeing Mustangs plow into crowds at street takeovers as well as meets has become a joke by now, but police in Morrow, Georgia aren’t laughing. They say the organizers of an illegal takeover event held after the big snow storm hit lied to a business to gain access to its parking lot, then three people were injured as the cars slipped on the slick pavement.
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It went down in a Harley-Davidson store’s parking lot after the people who organized the illegal gathering told the business the city gave them a permit, reports WSB-TV. However, police say that was a lie as between 50 and 100 people gathered to watch the cars drift around on the snowy pavement.
We already covered one of the Mustangs crashing into the crowd, although at the time we only had the video and didn’t know where it took place. One spectator was thrown up onto the Mustang’s hood and trapped between it and a chain link fence the car crashed into. We’re unsure if he was one of the three injured people.
Footage shared by police shows a second Mustang also plow into the crowd, apparently hitting several people. At some point someone called 911 but by the time police arrived, two of the injured had been taken to the hospital in private vehicles. At least one of the Mustang drivers took off.
But of course, people who were at the takeover event posted video footage of those crashes to social media. Police were able to review that and are in the process to tracking down the driver(s) who could face multiple charges.
The most surprising part of this story is that police are talking about setting up a “safe” spot for people to come and do takeover-like events with drifting and donuts. We guess if there are proper barriers to keep people safe it might work. But the takeover crowd usually isn’t into following rules, so we wonder if the idea is even feasible.
Image via WSB-TV
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