IndyCar Determines Cause of Dan Wheldon's Death
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Dan Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, contact that created a "non-survivable injury" to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner.
IndyCar officials released their findings Thursday of the Oct. 16 accident in the season finale. Wheldon was killed in an early 15-car accident when his car launched into the catchfence.
The reports finds several factors contributed to what became a "perfect storm," and no one reason could be singled out as the sole cause of the accident.
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IndyCar found it is "impossible to determine with certainty that the result would have been any different if one or more of the factors did not exist."
The race had a season-high 34 cars and was held on a high-banked oval, and IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard says the size of the field and the banking itself were not solely responsible for the accident.