A spectator was killed and nine other injured when a racing car went off the road and drove into a crowd during a race held at Orenburg in the afternoon of Sunday, 26 January 2009.
The race, a round of the Orenburg Oblast Ice Track Racing Open Championship, at the Autoring course located at the Zagorodnoe Highway in Orenburg, Russia. Viktor Goncharov, an 18 year-old driver from Buzuluk, in Orenburg Oblast, Russia, lost control of his VAZ 2108 after colliding with competitor Andrew Shalomeenko on the snow-covered track. Goncharov's car crashed against snow barrier and overturned, slamming into the spectators behind it. After the accident the car caught fire, but firefighters managed to extinguish it quickly.
A male spectator named Ivan Chernov aged about 70 died at the scene; nine other people received first aid after the accident. Five of them, having sustained concussion and head injuries, were hospitalized in a hospital in Orenburg. These were two women aged 22 and 23 and three men aged 22, 24 and 27. Driver Viktor Goncharov escaped with minor cuts and bruises. Russian authorities carried out an investigation after the accident.
