Word: guardrails
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...second lap, a rear wheel fell off Lauda's car and he skidded into a guardrail. His car burst into flames, searing his lungs with intense heat and poisonous flames from the volatile fuel. Unable to trigger the car's fire extinguisher, Lauda lay trapped while three fellow drivers struggled to free him. His face and head were badly burned and disfigured, the oxygen count in his blood fell below the level necessary, in theory at least, to sustain life...
...could still do my work. The car was aquaplaning. I was really scared and I stopped. But the next day, it was dry, so I got in the car. It took me 15 laps to be able to start sliding to the guardrail again, but I did it. I was not scared; I could drive again...
...Yuba City last week as the 15,000 citizens mourned their dead. A week earlier a bus bearing 53 members of the local high school choir and Chaperon Christina Estabrook had ripped through 72 feet of guardrail as it turned onto an exit ramp in Martinez, about 80 miles from Yuba City. The bus plunged 21 1/2 feet to the ground. It landed on its top, wheels still spinning and roof crushed down to the seats...
...time the race starts it is 3:30 and we are again standing at turn 6. The race is 59 laps long. On the 10th lap there is a spinout down the straightaway. The next day I will learn the driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died crashing under the guardrail. He was decapitated. Standing next to us is a man with a radio who tells us the lap numbers. After the first few places we have no idea who is in what position. The cars come hurtling at us, then down and away in a matter of five seconds. For the next...
...collision, and that they might pop open with such force as to injure children. In millions of test miles driven, that just has not happened. The bags do have some drawbacks: they do not inflate twice, so if a car strikes another and caroms off to hit a guardrail or a third vehicle, the driver would be protected against the second crash only if he was also wearing a seat belt. But the evidence seems to warrant making the bags mandatory...