Thread: Dale Earnhardt
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Old 21 Feb 2001, 11:24 (Ref:65870)   #21
massifheed
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massifheed should be qualifying in the top 10 on the grid
I hate to drag this on, but I was pretty shocked at an article I read before all this happened. It basically said (I think this is accurate) that in 30MPH crash the human head weighs the equivelent of 250 pounds! And the brain itself weighs 70 pounds. So I guess that even if the HANS device was used, Dale would have probably suffered some kind of brain damage with the brain hitting the front of the skull. I just don't want everyone to jump on the HANS bandwagon and then find out after the next big crash that it might save the driver but it means that he'll be a vegetable. No driver deserves that.
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