# Ryan Newman just walked out of the fucking hospital!

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**Created:** [February 19, 2020, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan-newman-just-walked-out-of-the-fucking-hospital/848192 "2020-02-19T20:52:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 21, 2020, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ryan-newman-just-walked-out-of-the-fucking-hospital/848192/21 "2020-02-21T01:11:16Z")

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> [@Hampshire](#):
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> The look of the crash is deceptive to how much damage is inflicted on the driver. The more damage the car takes, metal crushed / parts falling off, the less destructive energy is transferred to the driver.  
> The deadly accidents, like the one that killed Earnhardt Sr., look tame by comparison but are lethal since the car absorbed little of the energy and transferred it right into Dale.

I was literally just saying the same thing. When Earnhardt crashed, my stomach dropped despite it looking like a bump. I mean, I didn’t think he’d die because it was DALE, but it being less of a visual spectacle made it seem to people that it was less serious. And iirc the last two deaths prior to his were Kenny Irwin’s and Adam Petty’s, both during practices and not The Big One superspeedway race crashes.

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