HST on NASCAR Death

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Wed Feb 21 23:44:31 PST 2001



> He chose not to wear his head-restraint cable.

It's not at all clear that there's much anything could do to help save you if you hit a concrete wall in a 3500lb automobile at 180mph. Ask anyone who has driven these cars (like me, if you don't know anyone else): go flip floping head over tail down a straightaway in a fireball and you'll just have to hold on and wait for your momentum to bleed and for the ride to stop; your rollcage will save you.

But if you hit the wall head on at speed: you won't walk away easily.

/jordan



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