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To: mabarker1

Her impact seemed to be backwards in a way the impact tried to push her into the seat and rotated into the structure that gave way trying to pull her out of the seat . Weight of her helmet albeit possible connected to her would seem to stretch her neck / extending her spine even though she had 5 point harness etc .... Just what I was thinking watching the slow motion video. Worst seems to be what turned her 180 so fast out of camera view and sent her airborne backwards ..... that camera stand soaked up lots of the energy thankfully.

The video suggested 227.? speed... I’m thinking kph versus mph thus 141 mph give or take. Safety gear worked . Autostradas / Autobahns of italy and germany were my playgrounds on active duty in the 70’s and 80’s ..... my average speed was 230kph on those wide open well designed highways. Can’t fathom such speed on the urban streets of Macau ..... at age 17. She’s a bad ass with a nice ass in my book !


60 posted on 11/20/2018 8:22:47 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos
The preventive item for Cervical Spine and Basal Skull injuries is the HANS Device aka Head and Neck Restaint System that came to “light” with the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr at Daytona. The HANS Device already existed but wasn’t widely used until NUTSCAR made them a Mandatory Safety Device.

Yes She was very lucky that God was watching over Her. I saw somewhere that a RADAR Gun clocked the Car while airborne at 174+mph. It was amazing that only 4 others were injured in the wreck.

Open Wheel Cars get airborne with Tyre to Tyre contact very easily, the one coming from behind gets pulled up on top of the front one and you are a passenger at that point.

A bunch of Pics on Her social media site. I Posted the Link up Thread. It will be interesting to see how well Her recovery goes, hopefully this won’t mess up Her Carreer.

61 posted on 11/21/2018 5:10:20 AM PST by mabarker1 (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!!)
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