COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – To win the Emma Crawford Coffin Races, you need speed, power and more than a little engineering.
Teams will push their coffin-on-wheels up Manitou Avenue as fast as they can. Four “mourners” push the coffin and a rider, their “Emma.” While Saturday is where we see the final drama, the results are largely decided months before in the workshop.
Strength plays an obvious factor on the scoresheet, but so does the coffin’s efficiency. KRDO13 is meeting with a brand-new race team of members in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union (IBEW), who are hoping their trade skills have helped them master the coffin design on the first try…