Motorcycle stuntman Corey Scott dies in Miami, Florida.
Scott's interest in motorcycle stunt riding began at the age of 15. So upon high school
graduation in Dacatur, Indiana, in 1987, Corey moved to Florida.
Performing for years with the Joie Chitwood Chevy
Thunder Show. Corey specialized in wheelies, the motorcycle-car precision
driving exhibition and the motorcycle-pick up jump, where he jumped a moving
truck with a ramp attached to the back. Scott performed in over 2,000 shows with
the Chitwood organization. While with Joie Chitwood, he performed stunts such as the Human
Battering Ram (??), the Slide For Life, the Leap for Life, the Aerial Wing-Walk, the
Roman Rider, the Motorcycle Firewall Crash and Crash Rollovers. Corey eventually
left the Chitwood organization and formed Scott's Super Stunts.
In 1995, he took a break from stunt-riding to
recuperate from a head injury, but in 1996, he went back to performing. On February 8, 1997 at the
Orange Bowl stadium in Miami, Florida, he was supposed to drive his motorcycle
off a ramp and land into a net that was hoisted high into the air, a stunt he had performed successfully a number of times previously, Scott was
suppose to grab the net upon hitting it, but he missed and fell 60 feet to the
ground. He was killed when he landed on his head, breaking his neck. Corey Scott was 28 years old.
I want you to think about this the next time you go off high-flying into a net somewhere.
