Today is a sad day in the entertainment world: off hand three tragedies, including this one, come to [...]
USAC racer Shane Hmiel is in critical condition after crashing his United States Auto Club Silver Crown car at the Terre Haute Action Track last night. Read more and watch the crash video below.
Warning: the video you are about to watch is gruesome, and isn’t for the faint of heart – viewer discretion is advised.
As you can see in the video Shane Hmiel was cruising around the track when something went terribly wrong. His car “bicycled” onto two wheels, and as a result he lost control slaming into the outside wall of the track, before it flipped over several times. The roll cage wasn’t strong enough to withstand the force of the impact and was crushed.
Medical choppers arrived shortly after the wreck, and airlifted Hmiel to Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. According to the website Bitten and Bound, he is suffering from severe compression fractures in his neck and back as well as serious head injuries.
Shanes father, Steve, gave an update to FoxSports.com about his son’s condition. He said:
“Head looks promising, heavily sedated so hard to tell about waking up. No feeling in his legs but might get better.”
As a biography, Shane Hmiel (often misspelled, Hmeil) was born on May 15, 1980 in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina. His father is Steve Hmiel is a former NASCAR crew chief and the current Competition Director for Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing. At one point in his career he was a NASCAR racer, but after failing several drug tests he was banned from the organization for life. He is the co-host of the racing-themed TV show “3 Wide Life.” He was involved in a horrific crash on October 9, 2010.
Click here for more more information, photos and video – via Bleacher Report.
My thoughts go out to Shane’s fans, friends and family.
Find the ‘Shane Hmiel Crash’ video below.
Photos: www.wenn.com/Dimitri Halkidis
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