Ronnie Peterson Monza Italy 1978

The horrible crash from the Italian GP 1978 10th september, where the swedish driver Ronnie Peterson suffered injuries. He died the day after, september 11th 1978. Clip from the swedish television.

Kraschen från Italiens GP 1978 där Ronnie fick svåra skador och avled dagen efter, den 11:e september 1978. Clip från SVT.

Clip de la television sueca mostrando la partida del Gran Premio de Italia, 10 de septiembre 1978. Un gran choque ocurre y el piloto sueco Ronnie Peterson sufre heridas graves y muere el día despues 11 de septiembre 1978.

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• ronnie
• peterson
• crash
• italy
• monza
• 1978
• choque
• italia

[danieldeibler]

If this is shown as it happened in real time, then they got him out of the car less than 38 seconds after impact. Not bad for 1978. Consider that 5 years earlier, David Purley was pretty much left alone to try to save Roger Williamson while everyone else puttered around incoherently.

[McKnee1]

33 years ago today! vila i frid

[dwiparibasa]

scared

[shredmaster100]

this is how i want to die im going down in a blaze of glory as bon jovi said better than dying of cancer then again any death is better than dying from cancer

[danieldeibler]

@thenicedudejay agreed

[thenicedudejay]

@danieldeibler still, without the fellow drivers effort, Ronnie would not be out of his car this fast & the same with Niki Lauda 1976 nurburg ring crash!

[RFreigeldorff]

argue elsewhere kids.

your ranting is inapproprite here. 

[joshgeake]

@danieldeibler woah there, you need to take that great big cock out of your face, retard...

[danieldeibler]

@joshgeake

ProTip: Pay better attention when trying to be a dick on the Internet. I didn't say "pull". I said "got". If it weren't for what "they" were doing, he wouldn't have been able to pull him out.

Jesus Christ.....before the Internet came along I was optimistic and assumed the amount of stupid people in the world was lower. But here on youtube....here you are. This place is like a dumping ground for retards with keyboards. It's depressing.

[joshgeake]

@danieldeibler "they" didn't pull him out, James Hunt did.

[Schrecklassnach38]

My English isn't that good, so I didn't knew how to say. I meant a fat embolism...xD

[TheColinChapman]

@Schrecklassnach38 Untrue. He did not die due to an infection. The doctors had pre-warned him about the risk of a fat embolism in case he did no agree to having his right leg amputated (which was broken seven(!) times). He declined, that was his death sentence. This is also probably the reason why Barbro Peterson never filed a lawsuit due to malpractice. Fat embolisms are a potential consequence of the trauma. I still remember how sad I was the day he died. my favourite driver of the 70ies.