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12 [[caption-width-right:771:Most spectator casualties are not usually this happy...]]
13->''Around the first turn\
14Bodies fly\
15Spectators plowed\
16The pit crew dies\
17Hot rod chariot spitting out poison fumes\
18It runs on mustard gas\
19Hot dog of DOOM!''\
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21-->-- '''{{Music/GWAR}}''', ''Viking Death Machine''
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23A large crowd of people has gathered to watch a deadly sport or duel, such as a TrialByCombat or GladiatorGames. Everyone is enjoying the action... until a wayward blow hits an unlucky spectator.
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25This is a grim reminder that the events being watched are NotAGame. Sometimes, it serves as a TakeThat to those getting off on watching violence; if this trope appears in a work known (and loved) for its violent content, it may well be a TakeThatAudience.
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27For cases of gladiatorial combat or similar, a particularly nasty bad guy would sometimes attempt to ''intentionally'' do this to any close spectator (or specific ones) so that the hero would be forced to protect them. Or they may use the spectator as HumanShield. Or they're just that sadistic and want to do some side-maiming.
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29Sometimes this may apply to other kinds of shows, such as animal taming performances or airshows. In case of fight scenes, this can happen to InnocentBystanders as well. The point is that the spectator may potentially get harmed by the show's contents.
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31Arguably an InUniverse form of TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou. SisterTrope to DeadlineNews, where the ''commentator'' falls victim to the deadly event, and a subtrope to FatalMethodActing, where it's the performer who dies while performing.
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33!!As this is a {{Death Trope|s}}, [[Administrivia/SpoilersOff unmarked spoilers abound]]. [[Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned Beware]].
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40* Motorball in ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita'' frequently has injuries and fatalities among the spectators: heavily armed cyborg competitors or the 40 kg ball can easily crash through the flimsy courseside fencing. Second League champion Caligula Armblessed has a pre-victory ritual where he cuts off a fan's arms and sticks them on his horns.
41* In the Buu Saga of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', after making a DealWithTheDevil with [[EvilSorcerer Babidi]] in order to gain more power to match Goku, Vegeta has them transported back to the World's Martial Arts Tournament stadium, where he proceeds to blow up sections of the still-packed grandstands in order to goad Goku to fight with him.
42* In the final match of ''Manga/DragonHalf'''s TournamentArc, Dug Fin throws huge energy blasts at his opponent Mink that barely singe her. Large chunks of the stadium and audience behind her are less durable.
43* Downplayed and played for laughs in ''Anime/GundamBuildFighters'': Sei and Reiji are manipulated into a pitcher's duel against Luang Dallara, who happens to also be a Professional-grade baseball player. On their first pitch, Dallara's Abigorbine blasts the tiny ball ''into the stands'', where it smacks a drink can out of Kirara's hand and into the wall, nearly hitting two spectators in the process. Belatedly, the announcer warns: "Please watch out for foul balls!".
44* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Alucard and Tubalcan Alhambra's battle kills a lot of the surrounding police and reporters with stray bullets and cards.
45* In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', the space colonies determine the ruler through CombatByChampion, with each colony selecting a Gundam Fighter. Neo-France was having a duel between two fighters to determine their representative. One fighter, Jean-Pierre Mirabeau, was using the crowd as a HumanShield to prevent his opponent, George de Sand, from using his best attacks. The King who was watching declared George the winner on the spot. In rage, Jean-Pierre tried to kill the king, but his missiles were deflected by George, accidentally killing hundreds of spectators. The incident is known as the "Marseilles Tragedy" in-universe, and George considers it as MyGreatestFailure. [[spoiler: Which poses a huge, HUGE problem when Jean-Pierre resurfaces in the Guyanas arc, having been empowered with DG Cells, right after George was going through one HELL of a trauma-induced slump caused by having been forcibly infused with the same Cells.]]
46** The bad guys attempt to invoke this in a later episode, again involving George. After Princess Marie Louise witnesses [[BackFromTheDead Gentle Chapman]] kill a man, she's deliberately targeted during Chapman's rematch with George, since Chapman's ally [[BloodKnight Michelo Chariot]] has disabled the part of the [[DeflectorShields force field]] that protects George's support team, including Marie Louise. This forces George to keep the Gundam Rose between Chapman's Gundam and the breach until Domon Kasshu forces Michelo out of the control booth and gets the shields restored.
47* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
48** In the Dressrosa arc (specifically the Corrida Colosseum tournament), one of the battle royale participants, Elizabello II, prepares to launch a strong attack that can potentially demolish fortresses. The spectators are naturally frightened by this. Bartolomeo manages to block it with his barrier powers, though.
49** In a later fight, Burgess with his signature move Surge Elbow (a shock wave fired off an elbow strike) likes to charge recklessly, hitting the spectators in the process.
50* ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'': This occurs quite frequently during the Dark Tournament arc. More specifically notable examples include Shishiwakumaru's "Chorus of a Thousand Skulls" attack, and many of the matches between Team Urameshi and Team Toguro; in both examples, unfocused attacks kill demonic audience members at random, while Toguro's ultimate form pulls the souls of the weak-willed out [[HumanResources to fuel his power.]]
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54* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': For the Cult of Rakdos, a group that is equal parts demonic cult and bloody circus, it's downright ''expected'' that performances be at least somewhat lethal to both performers and audience. Considering how many performances involve blades, fire, and bloodthirsty devils, it'd be considered boring if someone ''wasn't'' maimed or killed somewhere along the way.
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58* In the New 52 and Rebirth-era ''ComicBook/HarleyQuinn'' series, Harley frequently takes part in an illegal [[FightClubbing Fight Club]] on roller skates, after being banned from a normal roller derby league for gratuitous violence. On several occasions, she has accidentally killed or maimed spectators during fights, to nobody's particular concern.
59* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': After Rita refuses to be bribed into losing a race the fixer instead bribes the other drivers to run into her. This causes her to get stuck in an unavoidable accident that sends her car flying towards the stands. She narrowly avoids crashing into the crowd when Wonder Woman catches her car just in time.
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63* In the short film ''WesternAnimation/LeMans1955'', based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster Le Mans disaster]], Pierre Levegh loses control and crashes into a crowded spectator area, killing himself and eighty spectators. Eventually his team, Mercedes, withdraws from the race out of respect for those who died.
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67* In ''Film/FortySevenRonin'', Oichi goes to a pirate town to find Kai and inform him of their lord's passing. Kai is engaging in a pit fight against an ogre, and over the course of the fight, a few spectators get stabbed by swords or smashed by the ogre's weighted chain.
68* The ''Film/DeathRace'' reboot trilogy has a couple of moments where road pit crew gets hit (or nearly hit) by errant gunfire. It is played for (dark) laughs on the first film (Coach has to pull Lists to safety on two occasions, but some people standing behind them aren't so lucky) and it is an important plot point [[spoiler:because it allows one of the characters to fake his death and help the rest escape prison]] on the third movie, ''Inferno''.
69* Entrants in ''Film/DeathRace2000'' earn points by killing spectators ''en route''. That's right: they're ''aiming'' for these people as a racecourse requirement.
70* The original disaster in ''Film/FinalDestination4'' results in lots of spectators dying in a variety of ways as a result of a terrible NASCAR crash and the seating collapsing. One of the spectators who ends up escaping their original death due to the main character's vision ends up [[ChunkySalsaRule obliterated]] by one of the car tires being hurled right out of the arena by the explosion.
71* The satirical comedy ''Film/TheFortuneCookie'' is about a sports cameraman who is knocked down by an American football player during a match and exaggerates his injuries to get compensation.
72* The opening narration of ''Film/HappyGilmore'', the titular character lost his father by a stray hockey puck during a game before moving to his grandmother's house.
73* Early in ''Film/HotShotsPartDeux'', a spectator of Topper's duel with another brawler gets decapitated by a stray roundhouse kick. This is PlayedForLaughs.
74* ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome''. Blaster fetches a spear and charges at Max, who gets out of the way using the WireFu ropes, and a spectator hanging onto the outside of TheThunderdome gets impaled instead.
75* In the first battle of ''Film/RobotJox'' Achilles' mech accidentally falls on an audience booth, crushing the occupants.
76* PlayedForLaughs in a fight between Dark Helmet and Lone Starr in ''Film/SpaceBalls''. While dueling with their "light sabers", Dark Helmet makes a wild overhead swing and slices a [[BreakingTheFourthWall sound guy off of his recording equipment]].
77* The first time WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck gets the ball in ''Film/SpaceJam'', he sees the Monstars converge upon him, and panics. Daffy passes the ball to Granny, a cheerleader on the sidelines. The five Monstars nonetheless gang tackle Granny.
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81* ''Literature/AscendanceOfABookworm'': A DefiedTrope. Ditter, the setting's FictionalSport, is meant to train knights in warfare and has the welcome bonus of being entertaining. Speed ditter, which is the variant best fit for being played in an arena, bans magic items and various forms of AbnormalAmmo to prevent AreaOfEffect and SplashDamage from being a danger to the audience.
82* In ''Literature/TheEmpressGame'', these are keenly expected at the arena in which Kayla fights. It's part of the entertainment and the crowd cheers.
83* One of James Incandenza's pre-Samizdat films in ''Literature/InfiniteJest'' centers on a spectator duel between Medusa and a being called the "Odalisque" whose beauty was said to have a similar effect to gorgons' ugliness; the entire audience is TakenForGranite, at which point it's suggested that this was the monsters' plan all along.
84* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. When the Red Viper is fighting the Mountain That Rides, a stableboy gets between them and gets his arm severed. Annoyed by his screaming, the Mountain finishes him off with a backslash [[KickTheDog purely to shut him up]].
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88* Used as a throwaway gag on an episode of ''Series/HouseMD'', where House tries to cheer up a despondent Wilson by saying he got extra-special VIP tickets for a Monster Truck rally -- the 'extra-special' comes from the seats being so close to the track that ticket holders ''must sign a waiver in case the trucks go out of control and kill them by accident''. Wilson, [[{{Wangst}} unfortunately, is too despondent]], and so House never gets to go ([[HoYay not without Wilson]]).
89* PlayedForLaughs in a segment of ''Series/JamesMaysManLab'' on duelling. May challenges a colleague to a duel over a parking space and when it eventually goes ahead, the show's executive producer ends up being shot by a misfire (well [[{{Kayfabe}} not really]], obviously).
90* In one episode of ''[[Series/SpartacusBloodAndSand Spartacus: Gods of the Arena]]'', a spectator gets some fingers cut off by a stray blow during a gladiator fight. This happened in the older arena where the spectators were ''much'' closer to the gladiators. The significantly larger arena was presumably built both to allow more spectators and to prevent accidents like this.
91* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Code of Honor" two people are battling with poison spike gloves. One of the gloves gets knocked out into the audience. It hits a man, cutting and killing him. Ironically this is the first onscreen death we see in the series (and he's not even a RedShirt).
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95* ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'': Deliberately invoked in the explanation of the Flaw "Grim Harbinger O' Death" to demonstrate how it's supposed to represent the character being a WalkingDisasterArea PlayedForHorror: one of the sample scenarios of the explanation is the character missing one of his shooting rolls during a ShowdownAtHighNoon and the stray shot killing a kid who was watching the duel.
96* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s plane of Ravnica, the Cult of Rakdos is their primary source of entertainment. Rakdos performances are quite the spectacle, but [[AFeteWorseThanDeath the people on stage aren't likely to survive]], let alone the audience.
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100* In Myth/ClassicalMythology Perseus killed his grandfather during a discus contest when he threw the discus so far that it went into the stands.
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104* Played with in ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet''. Romeo and Tybalt are duelling in the streets, and Mercutio initially tries to stop them as a bystander. However, he is eventually goaded into fighting by Tybalt's {{Jerkass}} nature and tries entering the fight himself, getting himself mortally wounded. So a bystander dies but only after being enraged into participating, because of MediationBackfire.
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108%%* Also one the main points of ''VideoGame/{{Carmageddon}}''.
109* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', it's very possible and very common for innocent bystanders to get caught in the crossfire between the Dragonborn and the opponent. ''Especially'' if said opponent is a dragon -- one [[RandomEncounter randomly invading a town]] has been the death of many a player's [[PermanentlyMissableContent shops and questlines]].
110* Played for laughs in ''[[Videogame/MechWarrior MechWarrior Living Legends]]''' Solaris Arena, gladiatorial battles waged with 20+ ton HumongousMecha packing autocannons, missiles, railguns, pulsed lasers, and a nuclear fusion reactor, all inside a stadium with densely packed fans. Duncan Fisher, the arena's announcer, has several quips to the spectators and the combatants.
111-->''In the event of a [[GoingCritical core breach]] in your section of the stands, we apologize.'\
112''Save a spectator day! Pick a mech without splash damage weapons!''\
113''It's hot enough to fry an egg out there! But with all that radiation, it's probably not wise to eat it.''
114* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' you can throw bystanders at your opponent to injure him (killing them in the process).
115* The combat system in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'' is set on a stage, with an audience watching Mario fight. Many bosses actually target and kill members of the audience in order to use their stronger attacks. Some audience members will occasionally throw things at Mario as well; when this happens, the player is given a QuickTimeEvent to run into the crowd and hammer them before they can throw it.
116* In ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' each arena has human worshippers watching the fight. You can eat them to regain health (eating your opponent's worshippers also gives you a score bonus).
117* There's an implied example of this in ''VideoGame/RatchetDeadlocked''. The Beta Ravager, which is an upgraded version of Merc and Green's LimitBreak Alpha Ravager, says in the description that improvements to the weapon will keep it from firing into the Dreadzone grandstands during battle.
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121* The Vargas in ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'' have powerful shields set up around the spectators in order to [[DefiedTrope specifically avert this]], but unfortunately, it [[DoubleSubverted doesn't stop]] Universe 19's [[AbsurdlySharpBlade God Blade attack]] or...''any'' of Broly's attacks.
122* During one arc of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Roy has to participate in GladiatorGames against his EvilCounterpart Thog, who has become the champion fighter. As seen in one panel of [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0796.html this strip]], a berserk Thog kicks away Roy's sword, which beheads a spectator--ironically/appropriately one who was Thog's biggest fan.
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126* Played for laughs during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG-ZIh1NSVo "The G Factor"]], a video filmed in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' by LetsPlay/{{Sips}} and LetsPlay/HatFilms. Trott at one point tries demonstrating a car that he's supposedly constructed, only to lose control and crash into the (imaginary) audience. We hear scream sound effects, but nobody's ''actually'' died.
127* Discussed during the LetsPlay/SeaNanners episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLbt6tAQOT8 "Cooking with SeaNanners"]], where Adam kills most of his audience.
128--> '''Max:''' That was the worst show ever. \
129'''Chilled:''' I quit my job. \
130'''Mark:''' Your ratings are gonna tank if you just kill all of your fucking audience members, you piece of shit.
131* This is narrowly averted for the LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}} during the ''VideoGame/HeroesAndGenerals'' live-action special. Behind the scenes, Smith of LetsPlay/HatFilms is working on the explosives for the set and is standing in a supposed safe zone, so he detonates. Shortly after a landmine blows up, a quite large chunk of dirt hits his helmet, which protects him. Had it hit one of the others standing next to him, they wouldn't have been so lucky.
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135* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
136** During [[CainAndAbel Zuko and Azula's]] FinalBattle the former goads the latter to shoot lightning at him. Unfortunately, Katara is watching and Azula, being cunning and [[AndYourLittleDogToo mean-spirited]], attempts to kill her instead (in what was supposed to be an honourable one-on-one duel). Zuko realises this and quickly [[TakingTheBullet jumps into the way]] to redirect the lightning, but because he was distracted he's left temporarily paralyzed. [[TheDogBitesBack Whereupon Katara kicks Azula's ass herself.]]
137** In the episode ''The Blind Bandit'', when the Gaang enters the earthbending arena, Sokka almost gets hit by a stray boulder during two random earthbenders' match.
138* This is a frequent occurrence with Dethklok concerts in ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', both intentionally and not, enough so that one episode establishes fans have to sign waivers that Dethklok is not responsible for any of them getting horribly injured or killed - just from trying to listen to music. The very first scene of the first episode has the stand airdropped into place while the fans are standing around where it's supposed to land - and several of them get crushed when it lands quite a ways away from the intended landing area. Then, since the song they open the concert with concerns coffee, they dump a giant pot of it hot enough to immediately scald human flesh off the bones onto more of the concert-goers.
139* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
140** The Simpsons and many other Springfield residents are attending a NASCAR race. They're all bored because nobody crashes. At one point a car's wheel comes off, plowing into Lenny. Lenny stands up saying "I'm OK!" much to everyone's disappointment. Then finally [[spoiler:Maude Flanders]] gets killed by an errant shot by a t-shirt cannon knocking her off the grandstand onto the parking lot far below.
141** One episode closes with Homer taking Lisa to a demolition derby. Homer leans over to hug her just as a car's fender goes flying past and hits the guy sitting behind him.
142* Done in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' when a splash of deep-fry grease hit a stand of bleachers with the audience of the Fry Cook Olympics, turning them into fish sticks. The concession guy then nonchalantly flips a sign to signify [[CarnivoreConfusion they're for sale]].
143* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': In [[Recap/StarWarsResistanceS1E8ThePlatformClassic "The Platform Classic"]], it's revealed that [[spoiler:Yeager's wife and daughter]] were killed in a racing accident when [[spoiler:Marcus used hyperfuel to boost his racer and lost control, crashing into Yeager's ship and]] sending both racers into the spectators.
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147* At the execution by beheading of the Scottish Lord and traitor [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Fraser,_11th_Lord_Lovat Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat]], spectator stands collapsed killing several people. Supposedly, Fraser was very amused at this, leading to the saying "laughing your head off".
148* This happened a lot in motor racing, especially in early eras when there weren't barriers present to protect onlookers from being harmed when vehicles crashed and/or spun out. This still happens on occasion, though much less often than it used to.
149** The 1903 Paris-Madrid road race was a notorious disaster, with five racers and three spectators killed in multiple separate accidents, and many non-fatal injuries. The entire race was called off before anybody had reached the Spanish border, and the hostile public reaction put an end to the early era of long-distance motor racing on public roads still open to other traffic, with little control over the positions and behaviour of spectators.
150** In 1912 motorcycle racer [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Hasha Eddie Hasha]] was killed when he lost control of his bike as it turned sharply onto a rail, also killing a boy who put his head over the rail whilst spectating, as well as three other boys and a young man. A stampede also ensued as panicked spectators rushed to get out of harm's way, causing further injuries. This and many other incidents prompted widespread condemnation from the media who derisively labeled the board tracks as "murderdromes". Even Harley-Davidson co-founder Arthur Davidson expressed his concern over what he and many others likened to gladiatorial contests, mentioning Hasha by name.[[note]]Creator/GabrielLuna's portrayal of Hasha in ''Series/HarleyAndTheDavidsons'' downplays his character's death, however, simply depicting him as having crashed his motorcycle onto a wall and succumbing from his injuries.[[/note]]
151** The 1928 Italian Grand Prix - Emilio Materassi lost control of his car and crashed into the grandstand, killing him and twenty-two spectators. It's still the worst accident (in terms of number of lives lost) to occur at a Grand Prix event and is still the second deadliest motorsport crash of all time.
152** The worst such accident occurred at the 1955 [[UsefulNotes/TwentyFourHoursOfLeMans Le Mans 24 Hours]], where Pierre Levegh and eighty-three spectators were killed when Levegh's Mercedes 300 SLR was catapulted into a stand after a collision. The disaster led to Mercedes-Benz withdrawing from motor racing for decades.
153** During the 1961 Italian Grand Prix--a UsefulNotes/FormulaOne race--the Ferrari of Wolfgang von Trips crashed into a spectator stand, killing von Trips and fifteen spectators.
154** During the first stage of the 1986 Portuguese rally, three spectators were struck by a car and killed. This, coupled with Henri Toivonen's death during the Tour de Corse, resulted in the Group B rally cars getting banned.
155** In 1999 there was a serious accident at a UsefulNotes/{{Indycar}} race called the Visionaire 500K in Charlotte where a collision led to debris flying into the stand, killing three spectators. The race was red-flagged for several hours before being called off completely.
156** It's for this reason that photographers at these events are told never to face away from the oncoming vehicles when taking their shots. If a vehicle goes out of control, it's moving so fast that they only have a brief moment to get out of the way.
157* UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} hasn't seen any spectator fatalities, although catch-fence crashes have happened that injured spectators.
158** The inaugural Truck Series race at Daytona will forever be marred by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmT3gQQdJm4 the terrifying crash]] of Geoff Bodine on lap 57. Contact between Kurt Busch and Rob Morgan caused Morgan to make contact with Bodine's truck in such a way that Bodine was catapulted into the catch-fence at a speed of nearly 190 miles per hour. Bodine's fuel tank exploded and the truck flipped over nine times extremely hard across the track before coming to rest on its roof in turn 1. The now crushed and mangled rollcage that was left of the truck was then struck by Ryan [=McGlynn=] on the driver's side. Bodine suffered a broken jaw, wrist, shoulder, and a concussion, while five fans in the stands were also injured by debris.
159** The reason why restrictor plates are used at Daytona and Talladega is because of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xh4DoNVhI8 Bobby Allison's crash at Talladega]] in 1987. Allison's Buick blew a tire going into the tri-oval at 200 mph (320 km/h), spun around and became airborne, flying tail-first into the catch fencing. While the car did not enter the grandstands it tore down nearly 100 feet of fencing and flying debris injured several spectators.
160** On the last lap of the 2009 Aaron's 499 at Talladega, Brad Keselowski turned Carl Edwards in the tri-oval. Edwards got airborne, was struck by Ryan Newman, and then was catapulted into the catch fence. Eight fans were injured by flying debris; the most serious one being a woman whose jaw was broken and was airlifted to a nearby hospital. In a tribute to ''Film/TalladegaNightsTheBalladOfRickyBobby'', Edwards got out of his car and jogged to the finish line.
161** A notorious Big One happened on the last lap of the 2013 [=DRIVE4COPD 300=] at Daytona, the Xfinity lead-in to the Daytona 500. Regan Smith was turned into the outside wall by second-place Brad Keselowski coming to the checkers, and Kyle Larson's car was thrown into the catchfence. The front tires and the engine of Larson's car were torn out and landed on the spectator side of the fence as part the fence was torn down. 28 spectators were injured, 14 of whom were treated at the infield care center and 14 of whom were taken to nearby hospitals.
162** On the last lap of the 2015 Coke Zero 400, as the field raced to the checkered flag, Kevin Harvick tapped Denny Hamlin from behind, instigating a massive wreck involving at least 24 cars (every car in the lead pack except for race winner Dale Earnhardt, Jr., second place Jimmie Johnson, and fifth place Kurt Busch). In the resulting collisions, Austin Dillon struck Hamlin at such an angle that he flipped over and flew into the catch fence in nearly the same place as Kyle Larson had in the 2013 Xfinity crash, ripping out the engine. Dillon's car landed back on the track upside down, coming to a rest at the exit to pit road, and was then hit again by Brad Keselowski, who spun in oil while trying to avoid the crash. Five fans were injured by debris, with one taken to Halifax Medical Center and later released, while the other four were treated and released from the infield care center (Dillon would walk away completely unharmed).
163* Similarly, crashes at air shows have sometimes killed spectators as well as pilots.
164** In 1938, over fifty people were killed in Bogota when a fighter plane doing aerobatics crashed into the crowd.
165** At the 1952 Farnborough air show, an experimental De Havilland [=DH110=] jet fighter crashed, killing its two-man crew and 29 spectators.
166** In 1988, a collision between planes of the Italian air force's official aerobatics team at Ramstein US Air Force base in Germany killed three pilots and 67 spectators. The incident inspired the name of [[Music/{{Rammstein}} the German industrial-rock band]].
167** In 2002, in the worst such accident so far, 77 people were killed at an air show near Lviv in Ukraine, when a jet from the national display team crashed into the crowd.
168** In 2015, eleven people were killed when a preserved Hawker Hunter jet fighter crashed onto a road during a display in Shoreham, England.
169* Most baseball stadiums have prominent signs warning spectators to be careful about baseballs being hit into the stands hard enough to cause serious injury. In later years, the warnings were updated to include bats which are liable to be shattered or accidentally thrown into the stands.
170** More recently, the netting covering the back sections behind home plate has been expanded to cover most of foul territory. Many foul balls are still hit over the netting, but those are much less dangerous compared to the line drives that are blocked by it.
171* Similar to baseball stadiums, hockey arenas have similar warnings regarding errant pucks flying into the stands. Additionally, since 2002 all NHL arenas have large nets installed above the glass behind each goal specifically to prevent missed or deflected shots from hitting spectators. Tragically, this was instituted following the death of a young fan who was struck in the head at a 2002 Blue Jackets game.
172* Downplayed version with sea parks: the seats closest to the pool are marked as splash zones, where spectators ''will'' get hit by huge waves. They sit there anyway.
173* Downplayed version with the comedian Creator/{{Gallagher}}: during his heyday in the 1990s, Gallagher played concerts in indoor arenas. The first several rows were equipped with plastic sheeting they could pull over their heads when he began smashing watermelons with a sledgehammer on stage.
174* The 2004 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers-Pistons_brawl Pacers–Pistons brawl]] started as an on-court altercation, but after a drunk spectator threw a drink at Ron Artest (then playing for the Indiana Pacers) the fight escalated with the players and crowds fighting against each other. Though nine spectators were injured (with two needing to be hospitalized) and at least one player was also injured, thankfully no one died.
175* Perhaps one of the most bizarre examples, at a game between the New York Jets and New England Patriots in 1979, two fans were struck by a remote control plane [[http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/08/27/a-drone-once-killed-a-fan-at-an-nfl-game/ shaped like a lawnmower]]. One of them died.
176* During a Music/LambOfGod gig in Prague, a local fan was pushed off the stage, landed on his head, and died. Lead singer Randy Blythe was prosecuted for manslaughter but acquitted, the judge declaring that the moral responsibility lay with the venue for disorganisation.
177* [[https://youtu.be/pohM7qdSnqE This]] accident that happened during the track cycling at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. English cyclist Matt Walls (he’s the blur of white and red at the top of the screen, for those who can’t quite make out what is happening due to the video quality) and his bike were flipped over the barrier and into the crowd after he tried to avoid a crash that happened just in front of him by riding up on the advertising boarding, and ended up clipping another bike’s wheel that was turned upwards as it slid down the banking. No one was killed, but Walls, along with two other cyclists were taken to hospital, and two spectators were treated for injuries at the scene, with one needing an operation later to fix the wound in his arm.
178* During a 2009 Monster Jam show in Tacoma, Washington, a piece of the driveshaft from one of the trucks came lose and flew off into the stands, killing six year old Sebastian Hizey. This incident led to the use of colored driveshafts becoming mandatory.
179* In 2014, the Korean girl group 4Minute were performing an outdoor concert in Seongnam when 16 attendees were killed and 11 injured when the ventilation grate that they were standing on collapsed.
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