- There are some mean
crashes in NASCAR, F1, Indy, and we're gonna watch
some of the meanest ones, but know that everyone
survives in the clips that we're about to watch,
and we're gonna talk about the medical situations
in each of these scenarios. Also, huge thanks to ShipStation
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(air whooshing) - The distance ahead.
(cars buzzing) - Oh, we got Formula 1 action. Honestly, the "Surviving
F1" series is fire if you haven't watched it yet.
(cars zooming) Haas.
(tires squealing) - Fuck.
- Oh, oh, oh! (vehicle crashing)
Oh! Where would his body be? It looks like it would be split in pieces, and the fact that there's a fire. I mean, he's in a fireproof suit, but how long can that help for? (mouse clicking)
Oh, there he is. He's trying to get out. (dramatic music) Oh, my God, you gotta spray him. See, the problem with spraying
down directly to person is it's good and bad at the same time. Good in that you're dousing the flame, but the reason you point
the fire extinguisher at the base of the flame is to literally suffocate the flame, and when you're shooting
it at a person's face, you're essentially suffocating
the person as well. See, the dangerous part would be if he was knocked unconscious
'cause then he wouldn't be able to climb outta the car. (suspenseful music) Look, you could see that
the medical delegate is trying so hard to get near him, but the flames must be so hot.
(mouse clicking) (suspenseful music) Oh, he must've burned his hand. Burns to the hand are so bad
because of the contractors that can form, that the
skin essentially starts becoming flex,
(air whooshing) and you're gonna need
multiple surgeries usually, and occupational therapy. Shout-out to my occupational
therapists out there, to help work that hand
open and keep its strength or recover its strength. Wow, he's walking away from this? Not even walking. My guy
is running away from it. (dramatic music)
(air whooshing) - [Narrator] Not only has he survived going through a barrier at 160 miles an hour.
(mouse clicking) 160 miles an hour? And how is he not concussed going from 160 miles an hour to zero so quickly? The danger in crashes is going from a high speed to a
zero speed because all of that inertia carries your
organs forward, even the brain. The brain sits in a soup, so
it starts hitting the front of your scalp when you
come to an abrupt stop, and I know they have
neck-stabilizing devices in the car, but whoa. - [Narrator] And he's
insisting, "No, no, no, no, we'll, we'll get the ambulance here," but he wanted to demonstrate
that he was okay. He got a message to everyone, his wife and family in particular, that- (mouse clicking)
- Okay, beautiful message. Medically, I hate it. Adrenaline in moments like
this is rushing so fast that you might not have any idea what's going on in your body. You might be bleeding internally. You might be bleeding
internally into your skull, having a stroke. So many things could be
going wrong right now, and just to symbolize that
you're great and strong, you do the extra walk? Unnecessary. Actually, it's
the same reason in boxing. Once there's a knockout,
they don't have people just usually stand up right
away after the matches. They first bring them to a stool. They have them calm down in the stool, and they evaluate what's going on there, and they have the doctor speak with them. Then they have them stand
up, and they redo it again, and there's reasons for this progression, because we wanna make sure that the body and mind are both safe.
(mouse clicking) Looks like, "He only suffered minor burns to the back of his hands,
a sprained left ankle, and was discharged from
the hospital soon after." That's crazy that that's
all that happened. I mean, I sprained my right ankle walking to the refrigerator the
other day on Bear's toy, and this guy's surviving
a 160-mile-an-hour wreck. (air whooshing)
- Outside making a move. - Okay, Indy.
(mouse clicking) For those of you who don't know, I was with Mario Andretti in an Indy car. Did a lap. How about you? (laughs) (signal beeping) - Kanaan is rubbing, oh!
- Are they gonna touch wheels? - They're gonna touch wheels!
- It's just in sight through there!
- Oh, God, oh, my God. - Oh, they touched wheels on a turn. That's awful.
- No. All right, oh! - Oh, my God.
- That's Robert Wickens! And his teammate-
- Robert Wickens. They got everybody.
(cars zooming) Oh, my God, the spin's ridiculous.
- That was ugly. - The strain and force a spin
like that puts on your neck, I can't even begin to understand because when I took those
turns with Andretti, I felt it in my neck, like my whole head being pushed to one side. When you're spinning like that, constantly changing direction, the amount of G's is incredible. Nothing like even my F-16 experience. (radio static hissing)
(relaxed music) (static crackling) "Violent crash, Pocono Raceway," which is where I did mine, by the way. "Confirmed Thursday night
that he is paralyzed from the chest down"? No way! So if chest down, likely, that means that there was some kind
of spinal cord injury, and obviously, from a spin like that, as I was saying, you're
putting so much torque on the spinal cord that it's no surprise that there was severe damage. (air whooshing)
- Ryan Newman off turn four for the final time, Blaney to the outside.
- Oh, car's fishtailing. Fishtailing. Fishtailing!
- Here comes Hamlin on the inside.
(Dr. Mike gasping) Wow, crash into the wall.
- Why? Why? Oh, my God.
- Into the air goes Newman in a shower of sparks on his roof.
- God, the amount of sparks in there.
- Ryan Newman comes across the line fourth.
- The heat. - Newman got turned.
- Jesus. - Went up in the air. As he came down, was hit by another car and launched skyward. - You know, in traditional car accidents, like on the highway, they have this device called the Jaws of Life to
actually cut through the doors and other mechanical
obstacles that might be in the way to free passengers. I wonder how they do it here. - [Announcer] Tries to go to
the outside, then the inside. They lock bumpers and turns Ryan Newman around.
- Oh, my God. He hit the side there really hard. Again, a lotta pressure on the neck. Being upset, like, this is okay. Again, there's no rapid stop. Where you have that inertia, the organs potentially experiencing a high G force. So this sliding effect
is actually life-saving. "He would later hold an
interview with 'Today' on March 11th, where
he discussed the crash, revealing he was knocked out
and sustained a bruised brain." Bruised brain, essentially,
he had a concussion, probably a contrecoup injury
from getting hit on one side. And remember, when the
brain hits one side, it then automatically
bounces to the other side 'cause it sits in that soup. That's called a contrecoup injury. But glad to know that he's alive. (air whooshing)
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- They come through the tri-oval.
(cars zooming) Checkered is waving.
(cars zooming) Ernie Irvan wins, and Rusty spins and gets, oh, Lord!
- Oh, he's flying. He's flying, rolling, rolling.
- And flips wildly right at the start/finish-
- Okay, if I'm trying to gauge the risk of an accident, this is probably one of the safest ones we've seen so far. Not to downplay the
injuries that happened here, but because, again, the car kept rolling, that looks terrifying but
usually creates the safest stop for the car because again,
it's that sudden stop and the speed of that
stop, the deceleration that causes the most damage
and is the most lethal. - [Announcer] Yeah, he's moving. I see him moving around in the car! (cars zooming) - Again, usually what results from this is neck injuries, concussions
from the rolling around. Maybe if your hand gets
caught in something. That's why I think Formula 1 drivers, and I don't know about
other racing sports, are taught to take their hands immediately off the wheel on an accident.
(mouse clicking) "Thankfully, Wallace,
simply lucky to be alive, given the severity of the incident, didn't suffer any severe injuries. He did, however, suffer some minor ones and was forced to wear a cast on his hand for the next few races. His accident inspired the
introduction of roof flaps to NASCAR vehicles, which
work to reduce flipping when cars go airborne." I mean, a cast with a
crash of that severity is a pretty good thing to get away with. (air whooshing)
- But you can see Mike moving inside the car.
(spectator screaming) - He's going on the inside.
- Oh, all the airborne ones are so bad, oh, my God. Oh, my God.
(mouse clicking) See, some of the most dangerous parts here are when the car that is
airborne and its wheels make contact with the other
driver from their head, which is unprotected,
and I know in Formula 1, they started creating some
sort of protection for them. I don't know if this was instituted at the time of this race.
- Here in turn three and four, quite a few years ago.
- Oof, wow. - [Announcer] And the
car is up into the fence, which is almost reminiscent
of Kenny Brack's accident at Texas quite a few years ago, guys. Very, very lucky.
- Yeah, so he went body into the fence, which
again, takes a major toll on your spinal cord, 'cause
imagine you're sitting, and your spinal cord experiences all those compressive forces,
puts pressures on your discs. I wouldn't be surprised if
there's a disc herniation involved here, bulging disc,
maybe even a disc rupture from the severity of that injury. "Conway had surgery for multiple fractures in his lower left leg
and had been diagnosed with a compression fracture in his back." That's interesting because I was talking about disc compression, but the vertebrae, which are the actual bony
bodies in between the discs, can fracture as well. Must have been a lotta
damage to his spine, but definitely can recover
with surgery from that. (air whooshing)
- Whoa! Oh, look out. We got trouble. This is gonna hurt. (flames hissing)
- Oh, oh, oh, oh, my God! For the people in the stands!
(cars zooming) (tires squealing)
And for the car. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, multiple hits.
(vehicles scraping) The whole race is over. - [Announcer] So Jeffrey
is alert, at least, and conscious and able to move. - Oh, my God.
- O don't know about you guys, but I'm breathing a little
bit better right now. - Well, me too.
- I mean, I'm not because you're still not out of danger until you're in the hospital. Even in the hospital,
when we have a patient in one area, and we need to transfer them, whether it's from a regular
inpatient floor unit to the ICU or from the
ER to the patient room. That transportation can only happen when the patient's stable,
and things go wrong during that transportation
that you need to be present and ready to activate a
code blue, a rapid response, and treat the patient
right then and there. "He suffered a concussion,
facial laceration, multiple bruises, right wrist fracture, and a small fracture to a vertebra, and is in intensive care unit in
serious but stable condition." Wow, I would say that it's
probably a very severe concussion when you're being tossed
around at that rate of speed. I mean, that's incredible.
(air whooshing) - Just as I walk outta
infirmary, they said, "Lee Petty just went over the
turn three and four wall." (tires squealing)
(vehicles crashing) - Oh!
(glass shattering) This looks like something from the scene of a car game called Carmageddon. (laughs) I don't know if
you guys remember that game, or Twisted Metal.
- Twisted Metal for sure. - Yeah, I think I also
couldn't afford the real game, but I got my hands on a demo disk. - Oh, okay.
- And I just played the demo over and over. (laughs)
(signal beeping) - Went in to talk to him. He was about half conscious and all, just tore all to pieces, cut up everywhere.
- Oh, my God. - Ribs broke, and punctured lung. Just his leg all, just all busted, all just hanging there.
- Oh, my God. That's the biggest danger that
I always tell you guys about, whenever there's a rib fracture, about puncturing your lung
and developing a pneumothorax. Also, less talked about
but equally dangerous is if that rib fractures in an area
where it nicks your aorta. You have massive internal bleeding. That's a deadly, deadly injury. "Lee Petty's car was
destroyed, and then they took his broken, apparently
lifeless body to the hospital. It was some time before he
could have broken bones fixed. They waited to see if he would stabilize as he lay in a coma. He spent four months in the hospital. Petty did return to racing,
but he was never quite as competitive again," wow.
(air whooshing) Oh, throwback. Okay,
let's see what happened. Oh, oh, wow!
(mouse clicking) Okay, those are the
ones I'm talking about, where you're going high rate of speed, and then you come to an instant stop. That's where you lose your life. - [Announcer] There is
Michael Waltrip now, standing up, climbing out from around that shredded, mangled
mass of sheet metal. - What, he's just walking out?
- That was a Pontiac Grand Prix
just a few moments ago. - Yeah, Ben, I think I'm all right. Got some contusions and a
little bit of confusion, but that's probably not too unusual. - That's not unusual? That is unusual. When we decide whether or
not to scan someone's head for an intracranial bleed,
it's based off of certain signs and symptoms, but also
the mechanism of injury, and going 100 miles an hour
or whatever that was to zero is most definitely a
high-speed accident warranting a full-body CAT scan.
(mouse clicking) - [Waltrip] I think I'm all
right, and we'll go home and get a good night's rest tonight. - No, you don't go home! You go straight to the hospital. I hope he went to the hospital. (mouse clicking)
- Try to figure out something. - You know, my seat stayed
secured in the frame rail, and the only frame rail,
really, that stayed as a part of the back of the car. This part came and went that.
- Wow, I think the only thing that really saved him here
was that he hit the outside of his car, not his own side. If it was the driver's
side that had that impact, it would've been a very different outcome. (air whooshing)
- Alonso, let's go! This is McLaren days, not Ferrari days. (vehicle crashing)
Oh, there goes his front tire. Oh, it's so hard to make
out what just happened. - Is he okay?
- The whole axle looked like it went.
(cars zooming) He walked away like that? That's him? Wait, is that Esteban Gutierrez? (bubble popping) That's my friend! Look at all these pictures of me and him. - You see the sky. Then
you see the ground. You see the sky, and you know
you exactly where you are, and you keep moving,
moving, you want to stop. Then they kinda stop. I saw a little space throughout, and I said, "I go out quickly." And my mom will watch TV, so I want to be out quite quickly.
- Wow. - And I'll say that I'm okay. "I feel fine physically, but
everything hurts a little because you move around
so much at those speeds. The knee is what bothers me most as it hit the steering column, but I feel very lucky," very lucky. Everything is gonna hurt for a while, and honestly, you should
be under observation because if you are even having
a small bleed internally, you wanna make sure that
you're able to act quickly. So I have a funny story
with Esteban Gutierrez. We went to a family dinner. I took him in my Audi TTS,
and I was gonna drop him off at his place and then go home, and I'm with a Formula 1 driver. I'm gonna drive and try and look cool, and because of that, I turned
in to the Holland Tunnel in the city, and I didn't mean to do that. So I was like, "Oh, my God, I
turned into the wrong thing." So I was like, "Let me
just back up real quick 'cause I'm not that far in," and as soon as I started backing up, you see a cop walk out onto the street and go, "Excuse me, sir. Come on. Come on," and had me pull up. Checked my windows for tints. (bubble popping)
Started writing me tickets. I was like, "Officer, I'm so sorry. I made this mistake. I'm a physician. This is a Formula 1 Driver. He's like, "I couldn't care less. Here's your 10 ticket,"
but yeah, that goes to say that even you have a Formula 1 driver in your passenger seat,
don't try and show off because things will go wrong.
(static hissing) - [Announcer] But the
rest of the field is- - Oh, no. Oh, no. This is gonna be the worst one, isn't it? (cars zooming)
(tires squealing) (laughs) This looks like a skit. The only thing that I'll say
is this is pretty low speed, so I guess that's a little bit safer, but these vehicles weren't as safe, so that's not necessarily true. You know what's really scary? When you watch some of those videos when there is a blizzard,
and there's low visibility, and then there's an accident
and another accident, and all of a sudden,
there's cars just sliding into other cars, and then people come out to see what's going on, and
they're getting trapped. Never exit your vehicle if you're in one of those situations. Call for help. Stay in your vehicle. Because you don't know
what's coming behind you. That's the scary part, and
if you do exit, run away. Don't stay on the highway.
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