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[cleggy]

According to BBC now out of surgery and breathing unaided

That's good but in intensive car with a serious head injury.

[henryd]

According to BBC now out of surgery and breathing unaided

That's good but in intensive car with a serious head injury.

Yes I know,but at least he's still with us.

[cleggy]

According to BBC now out of surgery and breathing unaided

That's good but in intensive car with a serious head injury.

Yes I know,but at least he's still with us.

We can but hope, Massa recovered after the head injury the he sustained when a piece of Barichello's car hit his helmet.
Tractor tyres are very unforgiving, I had an incident on the Seven Dales Mintex rally where the cars came down an embankment along a flood plain and across a wide stream. The mini's and cars that crept threw the water invariably stalled and the tractor used to extract them got closer and closer to the water. An Escort Mexico flew across the bank, grounded on the stream bed and shot out of the stream straight into the rear tractor tyre, the car was a right off with  the driver and navigator shook up and minor injuries to the drivers wrists. When I got to the car with a crow bar to force the doors open the driver simply said " Who the f+ck parked that there?"

[aaronjb]

Footage has been released of the actual accident now - the whole car slides under the back end of the tractor unit, slicing the car off pretty much at windscreen level.. amazing he's alive at all, honestly.

[henryd]

Footage has been released of the actual accident now - the whole car slides under the back end of the tractor unit, slicing the car off pretty much at windscreen level.. amazing he's alive at all, honestly.

Jesus,don't know how he survived that at all,it lifted that JCB off the ground when he went under it

[cleggy]

Footage has been released of the actual accident now - the whole car slides under the back end of the tractor unit, slicing the car off pretty much at windscreen level.. amazing he's alive at all, honestly.

Jesus,don't know how he survived that at all,it lifted that JCB off the ground when he went under it

Awful,  I thought at first he had hit the tyre, we can but hope.

[chrisgixer]

Just seen it myself. Went in at quite a speed. I know there's an element of counter balance with the truck they where using but the back end went up in the air as the car went under the over hang behind the tricks rear wheel.

...and if the truck has reversed a fraction later, the drivers head would of missed anything solid completely.