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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
It was Adam Petty, Kyle is still driving as far as I know; Kenny Irwin also died of basilar skull fracture at the same track as Adam. Their two wrecks had much higher impact energies though as far as I could tell.. hung throttles at the end of a straight at Loudon speedway.
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Petty and Irwin both his the wall at like 100+ mph... that's much worse than Dale's 35mph wreck.
The injury was the same as Dale's, but their's was from extreme whiplash, which has been addressed by the Hans Device and soft walls. Dale's was from actually smacking the back of his head on the steering wheel.