The Chattanooga Police Department has identified the course workers injured on the MotorCar Festival time trial course on Riverfront Parkway on Friday morning.
Jeff Banker, 59, was critically injured when he and another worker were struck by a barricade. Byron Evans, 53, suffered minor injuries and was released from the hospital Friday afternoon.
The car involved in the accident was driven by Dennis Olthoff, 30, police said.
This photo taken at around 9:15 a.m. near the grass field behind the Tennessee Aquarium shows a person being lifted into an ambulance after a car experienced a mechanical failure and hit a barrier, injuring two course workers during the Chattanooga MotorCar Festival on Friday, Oct. 11, 2019. / Photo by Steven Llorca
Steven Llorca was taking photos of the race when the accident happened in the downhill curve of Riverfront Parkway near the Tennessee Aquarium.
“The (car) was coming down the hill. There was a loud thud, and I noticed (the car) had broken a tie rod because the wheel was bent back and the headlight tumbled into my camera frame,” Llorca said.