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NT coroner finds Finke Desert Race safety measures 'entirely inadequate' prior to 2021 spectator death

A spectator captured the moments before Nigel Harris, 60, was hit by a competing trophy truck. (Supplied: NT Supreme Court)

A Northern Territory coroner has handed down her findings into a spectator death at the Finke Desert Race in 2021, concluding that measures to protect spectators from significant known risks were "entirely inadequate". 

Nigel Harris, 60, died from multiple blunt-force injuries when a competing trophy truck veered off the track and crashed into a group standing at a popular spectator site 35 kilometres from the finish line.

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