Sentence examples for Hit the barrier from inspiring English sources

"Instead, when it hit the barrier, it went straight up.

She said she felt her knee go on the back straight before she hit the barrier.

I overshot, hit the barrier and went straight off: the bike hit a tree and dropped 20ft down a ravine.

"It's not like a video game if you hit the barrier, you will crash," he told me, with a conviction that Mayor Giuliani would have approved.

Video posted online by C5N, an Argentine news channel, showed security camera footage of the moment the train hit the barrier.

"It's not like a video game — if you hit the barrier, you will crash," he told me, with a conviction that Mayor Giuliani would have approved.

At Le Mans two years ago the experienced Danish driver Allan Simonsen died from injuries suffered when his Aston Martin hit the barriers.

As he tried to pass Kamui Kobayashi in a Sauber, the two drivers' cars collided and his McLaren spun off violently and hit the barriers.

Instead, he trundled around, got spooked by a slow Toyota into spinning at Turn 18 - causing Sutil to hit the barriers and bring out a second safety car – and dropped his pace dramatically at the end.

The rear fin is disliked by many fans for distracting from the flowing lines of the cars, but its function seemed obvious here as his car did not turn over until it hit the barriers.

An immediate and thrilling battle between the Audis and Toyotas, who were showing much better pace than they had in qualifying, ensued but was curtailed under a yellow flag when Simonsen hit the barriers at Tetre Rouge.