Langhorne 1955 - Johnny Thomson crash

Johnny Thomson hits Jerry Hoyt's stricken car during Langhorne 100 mile IndyCar race, 19th May 1955. Thomson suffered a broken collarbone.

Hoyt was killed less then two months after this during a sprint car race in Oklahoma City. Thomson was also killed during a sprint car race in Allentown in 1960.

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• 1955
• IndyCar
• Indy
• Car
• AAA
• Langhorne
• Johnny
• Thomson
• Jerry
• Hoyt
• crash
• racing

[Nevets9719]

How the hell was this NOT fatal?

[penske13]

much respect for the way it used to be.

[NIGHTBRANCH]

That driver died a few months later at another track.

[brettcrashman]

i think these are champ cars not indycar?

[buckzx12r]

Thoose guys had BALLS back then.Safety equipment was a joke.Werent these guys afraid?

[goerge4]

this guy's not dead?????

[goerge4]

a broken collarbone? holy shit.. he was made of metal or what?!?!?

[BillHFA]

I make the same question! Amazing!

[lark1955]

Motor racing was crazy and unsafe back then. Of he 33 drivers who started the 1955 race, 16 died racing.

[BSNFabricating]

The drivers who survived this era deserve a salute... You never knew when your number might be "up"... Ask AJ Foyt...

[arizonaresident1]

These were the days you truly had to have a death wish to drive one of these things. They were absolutely nuts.

[skibbawho]

just a flesh wound... shake it off