A Jefferson County jury held a motorcycle racing school accountable for the death of a female racing. In a case tried by David Marsh and Rip Andrews, the jury returned a verdict in the amount of $10 million in favor of the plaintiff.
The 33-year-old motorcyclist was killed while training on the Barber motorsports race track in Leeds, Alabama, on May 22, 2009. She was participating in an amateur event known as “Track Day” when a corner marshal ran onto the track into her path. The event was organized and run by Ed Bargy Racing, LLC, and the corner marshal worked for the Bargy company. He apparently ran onto the track to remove some debris, but the evidence showed that race control had ordered him to stay off the track until there was a break or a gap in the line of motorcyclists. David and Rip proved that the cardinal rule for all workers on and around the race track is “never enter a hot track without permission from race control.”
