Joe Weatherly's Fatal Crash

Joe Weatherly's fatal crash at Riverside in 1964. While the crash looks minor, Weatherly's head hit the wall when the car did which is what caused his death. A window net would have more than likely saved his life.

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• Fatal
• Crash
• NASCAR

[Nascarfanfedex11]

Screw you Australian

[tiki2188]

Didn't exist. This was from 1964...

HANS device? They weren't using window nets even.

NASCAR really has come a long way. Not a fan of alot of the stuff they do, but no one can argue about the safety of it.

[BTBattlefronTV]

I heard that Weatherly wasn't using his shoulder harness period, and he wore his lap restraint loosely. That, combined with no window nets or HANS device, killed him, in my opinion.

[daveinindy]

That was one hell of an impact. Net or not net, he's in serious trouble. RIP.

[brian96597]

I don't believe for a second a window net would have saved his life. IMO the force of the impact alone would've killed him.

[wildman2349]

That's turn 6. Turn 7 was not used on Riverside's NASCAR course. They went straight from 6 down a short straight to a sharp decreasing radius turn 8. Very tricky.

[altfactor]

Today, with better restraining gear, he would have lived, and probably resumed racing.

[supahdadd]

If you watch closely at 0:04, he bounced over the tires on the inside of turn six (on the right side of the track), which probably caused him to lose control, slide across the track, and hit the wall on the outside (driver's side).

[supahdadd]

The crash was in turn six and seven, just after the esses and up the hill.

@SCRTpilot: These are American stock cars, which, back then, were still built pretty much "stock". Just a few added safety features like a roll cage, heavier brakes, etc. Still not cure what exactly caused Weatherly's crash.

[Nxtl68]

There's a lot of safety features I wish we had back then, but we just didn't know. RIP Joe.