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NOTES: COL KINE LOCATION: TEXAS, USA TITLE: STOX CRASH (KINE) SERVICED DATE: 06/06/78 NO: 93785 DATE SHOT: 06/05/78 LENGTH: 29 FT SECONDS: 46 SEX SOUND: MUTE DATE OF ARRIVAL: FILM SHOWS: CARS TO START, START, CARS ROUND BEND AT SPEED, SIX CARS CRASH, FIRE AND SMOKE, VIEW OF DAMAGED CAR, REPLAY OF CRASH. LEAD IN: TWO DRIVERS ESCAPED SERIOUS INJURY IN A SPECTACULAR SIX CAR PILE-UP AT MONDAY 5 JUNE'S TEXAS 500 CAR RACE AT COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS, USA. THE RACE WAS WON BY GARY BOWSHER. FEET R/SECS 2 3 LS CARS TO START 5 8 LS STARTER WAVES FLAG 9 14 LS CARS AROUND BEND 20 32 LS CRASH, FIRE & SMOKE 22 46 CU CRASHED CAR 29 46 LS ACTION REPLAY OF CRASH COMMENTARY: THE RACE WAS SCHEDULED TO BE A REMATCH BETWEEN RACING VETERANS BOBBY ALLISON AND AJ FOYT WHO STARTED SIDE BY SIDE, HAVING DUELLED ON THE STOX CIRCUIT BEFORE THIS YEAR. ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, ACTION OF ANOTHER SORT BEGAN IN EARNEST. ON LAP 8 A SPECTACULAR SIX CAR CRASH SENT TWO DRIVERS RICKY OTTS AND KEN ROWLEY OUT OF THE RACE AND TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL. THE TWO WHO NARROWLY ESCAPED THEIR COLLIDING AND EXPLODING STOCK CARS ALSO ESCAPED SERIOUS INJURY, SUFFERING JUST MINOR BURNS. THE CRASH OCCURRED WHEN SEVERAL CARS SPUN IN TURNS THREE AND FOUR AND WHEN OTTS AND ROWLEY COLLIDED NOSE TO TAIL.