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I agree with you, A carbon fiber car can survive an insane speed accident with little to no damage, the human inside however is dead, The human body can only decelerate so quickly, break that barrier and you rupture internal organs, vertebrates break as the head throws forward severing the spinal column, the brain slams into the front of the skull etc etc etc.

I was just pointing out that his particular crash may have been survivable, there seems to be some debate of him wearing or not wearing his head restraint as well. However anyone doing 50 or 60 miles an hour in a Smart Car and slams into a wall will be dead, even if there is “no intrusion into the passenger compartment” the deceleration is too quick for a human to survive the impact.

You can’t blame NASCAR from trying to obfuscate what really happened. There is a lot of money on the sport and the sponsors believing racing is safe, even though -

Hey they do the best they can and still make it exciting.

Cars under about 3500 pounds are upping the risks of injury. Careful perusal of the IIHS tests will prove that. This means a car about the size and weight of the current model Honda Accord is a good metric when buying. But that also means all the safety equipment boxes need to be checked off.

A golf ball can hit a concrete wall at 120 mi/h and look pretty good. Imagine if you were riding inside it. Raw hamburger.