Re: Accident Didn't Look That Bad?

From: Mike Crumley (mcrumley@airmail.net)
Date: Tue Feb 20 2001 - 12:24:30 EST


On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:19:51 -0500, ron-wong@home.com ("Ronald Wong")
wrote:

>It's not the speed that kills ya, it's the sudden stop. On the 28-car
>accident everyone was flying and sliding all over the place. There was a
>lot of give. On DE's accident there was 180 mph and wall, that wouldn't
>budge.

If you want visual evidence of how hard the hit really was, notice
that the right front wheel was knocked off the car by the impact. You
hardly ever see entire wheel assemblies come off of NASCAR cars, even
in roll overs.
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