List of driver deaths in motorsport

This article is about car driver deaths. For motorcycle racing deaths, see Rider deaths in motorcycle racing.

The five tracks with the most competitor fatalities

1	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	57
2	Nürburgring	48
3	Monza	30
4	Le Mans	27
5	Daytona International Speedway	24

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of auto racing, many individuals, including drivers, crew members, officials and spectators, have been killed in crashes related to the sport, in races, in qualifying, in practice or in private testing sessions. Deaths among racers and spectators were numerous in the early years of racing. However advances in safety technology, and specifications designed by sanctioning bodies to limit speeds, have reduced deaths in recent years. Spectacular accidents have often spurred increased safety measures and even rules changes. Widely considered to be the worst accident amongst them is Pierre Levegh's 1955 crash at Le Mans that killed him and approximately 80 spectators with over 100 being injured in total.

This is a list alphabetically sorted, and structured after the kind of competition, of the more notable drivers, excluding motorcycle riders. In addition, several famous racing drivers have been killed in public road crashes; see List of people who died in road accidents.

A

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Héctor Abate-Daga (BRA)	July 13, 1958			Mecánica Nacional Fuerza Limitada	Concordia (Parque Rivadavia, Circuito San Carlos)	Primer Premio Ciudad de Concordia	Race	A broken spindle caused the car to crash and burst into flames
Norris Abbott (USA)	July 19, 1958	Dragster			Paradise Mesa Drag Strip		Race	Transmission exploded, car caught on fire, lost control of car and Norris was ejected
Bill Abell (USA)	August 23, 1940	Stock car			Fulton Fairgrounds		Race	Lost control and left the track
Bud Abell (USA)	November 9, 1947	Stock car			Mitchell Speedrome		Qualifying	Spun off the track, plunged over an embankment and overturned
Dale Abendroth (USA)	June 12, 1982	Stock car	Chevrolet Vega		Wisconsin International Raceway		Race	Car skidded sideways, went into a ditch, flipped upside down, landed on the top and burst into flames
Franz Abraham (GER)	April 16, 1977	Sports car	Porsche Carrera RSR	Unknown	Hockenheimring	1977 Jim Clark Memorial Race	Practice	Drove straight into a concrete wall
Marguerite Accarie (FRA)	May 2, 1970	Touring car		Non-championship	Rallye Féminin Paris-St. Raphaël 1970, last special stage, Briançon-Monte Carlo	28ème Rallye Féminin Paris-St Raphael	Race	Crashed into a private vehicle
Jean Achard (FRA)	July 14, 1951	Touring car	Ferrari		Gávea	XII Grande Prêmio da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro	Testing	Crashed into a concrete wall
Howard Ackley (USA)	August 10, 1947	Stock car			Towanda Fairgrounds		Testing	Lost control, went through a fence and crashed into a building
Les Adair (USA)	September 19, 1948	Sprint car		Midwest Dirt Track Racing Association	Franklin Speedway	Qualifying heat race	Race	Locked wheels with another car, went through a fence and the other car landed on Adair's car
Speed Adams (USA)	September 24, 1932	Unknown	Frontenac	Unknown	Fairgrounds Speedway	Unknown	Race	Blinded by dust, ran over the rear wheel of another car, locked wheels, spun, came apart and hit each other again: he was ejected and slid into an iron fence
Jim Adamson (USA)	May 28, 1976	Sprint car	Unknown	Unknown	Fairmont Raceway	Sprint car consolation race	Race	Right rear tire blew out, car flipped six times, hit a lightpost and landed upside down
Grant Adcox (USA)	November 19, 1989	Stock car	Oldsmobile Cutlass	1989 NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Atlanta Motor Speedway	Atlanta Journal 500	Race	Equipment failure
Lionel Aderton (USA)	June 5, 1949	Hotrod	Unknown	Unknown	Holbrook Fairgrounds	Unknown	Race	Locked wheels with another car, broke the rear axle, spun and crashed through a guard rail
Francis Affleck (CAN)	February 7, 1985	Stock car	Ford	1985 ARCA Racing Series season	Daytona Speedway	ARCA 200	Practice	Lost control, went airborne and rolled
Gérard Ah Mouck (FRA)	August 19, 2007	Touring car	Peugeot 306 Maxi	Mauritius Rally Championship	Rallye à l'Ile Maurice	Rallye Citroën à l'Ile Maurice	Race	Heart attack
Chris Airey (ENG)	May 19, 1963	Touring car	Austin A40	Molyslip Saloon Car Championship	Brands Hatch	Molyslip Saloon Car Championship, event 10	Race	After going off track, he got back on too quickly, rolled four times and went down an embankment (the seat came loose during the rolls and he was partially thrown out of the door)
Bob Akin (USA)	April 29, 2002	Historical sportscar	Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo	Historic Sportscar Racing	Road Atlanta	HSR Walter Mitty Challenge	Practice	Crashed into concrete barrier, caught fire, flipped over the barrier, rolled and hit two trees
Lamont Akins (USA)	May 25, 2014	Dragster	Plymouth Duster	Unknown	Maryland International Raceway	Custom T's Doorslammer Nationals	Post-race	Lost control, crossed lanes, struck the concrete wall, rolled and was thrown out
Kiyoshi Akiyama (JPN)	August 23, 1970	Touring car	Honda S800	Unknown	Suzuka Circuit	12 Hours of Suzuka	Race	Hit another car and caught fire
Marcel Albers (NED)	April 20, 1992	Open wheel	Ralt RT36-Honda	1992 British Formula Three season	Thruxton Circuit		Race	Hit the back of Elton Julian's car, went airborne, somersaulted, and hit guardrail
Bill Albertson (USA)	August 16, 1930	Single seater	Miller	Unknown	Orange County Fair Speedway	Unknown	Qualifying	Wheel brake locked, car rolled over several times, hit a guardrail and threw him out onto the track
Michele Alboreto (ITA)	April 25, 2001	Sports car	Audi R8		EuroSpeedway Lausitz		Testing	Tire failed, car went airborne, somersaulted, roll bar collapsed and crushed him to death
Mario Alborghetti (ITA)	April 11, 1955	Open wheel	Maserati 4CLT	1955 Formula One season	Circuit de Pau-Ville	Pau Grand Prix	Race	Went over a straw barricade and crashed into barriers
Andriy Aleksandrov (UKR)	September 2, 2007	Touring car	Subaru Impreza	2007 European Rally Championship season	Sliven	Rally Bulgaria	Race	Crashed into tree roof-first
Blaise Alexander (USA)	October 4, 2001	Stock car	Pontiac	2001 ARCA Racing Series season	Lowe's Motor Speedway	EasyCare 100	Race	Crashed head-on into a wall
Clifford Allison (USA)	August 13, 1992	Stock car	Oldsmobile	1992 NASCAR Busch Series	Michigan International Speedway	Detroit Gasket 200	Practice	Crashed head-on into the turn one wall
George Amick (USA)	April 4, 1959	Open wheel	Epperly	1959 USAC Championship	Daytona Speedway	USAC 100-mile race	Race	Crashed into wall, front end sheared off, and flipped
Bob Anderson (GBR)	August 14, 1967	Open wheel	Brabham BT11	1967 Formula One season	Silverstone		Testing	Crashed into marshal's box
Ove Andersson (SWE)	June 11, 2008	Classic rally	Volvo 544		Milligan Vintage Trial	39th Continental Tyre Milligan Vintage Trial		Crashed head-on into a van
Keith Andrews (USA)	May 15, 1957	Open wheel	Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser 500G	1957 USAC Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Indianapolis 500	Practice	Andrews stepped into Giuseppe Farina's car for a test run, but crashed. Down the frontstretch, Andrews began to slide, and when he attempted to correct, the car backed into the inside wall separating the pit area. Andrews was crushed to death between the cowl and the fuel tank, but no fire broke out.
Paul Armagnac (FRA)	October 20, 1962	Sportscar	Matra Djet	1962 World Sportscar Championship season	Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry	1000 km de Paris	Practice	Car slid sideways, hit the right embankment, barrel-rolled across the road, smashed against a talus and he was thrown out
Alberto Ascari (ITA)	May 26, 1955	Sportscar	Ferrari 750 Monza		Autodromo Nazionale Monza		Testing	Crashed and rolled
Antonio Ascari (ITA)	July 26, 1925	Open wheel	Alfa Romeo P2	1925 Grand Prix season	Autodrome de Montlhéry	1925 French Grand Prix	Race	Crashed into a fence, rolled and was thrown out
Manny Ayulo (USA)	June 16, 1955	Open wheel	Kurtis Kraft 500C	1955 Formula One season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1955 Indianapolis 500	Practice	Steering broke and he crashed into a wall
Marc Azéma (FRA)	July 12, 1954	Sportscar	D.B. Panhard Monomill	Formula Monomill	Comminges	XVIIIè Circuit Automobile du Comminges	Race	Crash

B

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Renato Bachiochi (USA)	May 19, 1935				Huntington Speedway		Race	Blinded by a cloud of dust, lost control, crashed into a wall and was thrown out of his car
Steve Backenkeller (USA)	June 20, 1970	Single seater	McNamara	Formula Vee	Road America	Sports Car Club of America June Sprints at Elkhart Lake	Race	Car rode over the wheels of another car, flipped several times and landed on the roll bar
Bobby Baird (IRL)	July 25, 1953	Sports car	Ferrari 500	Non-championship	Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit	II United States Air Force Trophy	Race	Overturned and rolled on him: walked back to the pits, collapsed and died from a rib puncturing his lung and heart
Scott Baker (USA)	June 23, 2000	Stock car	Chevrolet Monte Carlo	2000 ARCA Racing Series season	Toledo Speedway	Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series 150	Race	Clipped by another car and crashed into the tire barrier
Rick Baldwin (USA)	June 14, 1986	Stock car	Ford Thunderbird	1986 NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Michigan International Speedway	Miller American 400	Qualifying	Spun out and crashed backwards into a wall
Tom Baldwin (USA)	September 19, 2004	Stock car	Chevrolet Monte Carlo	2004 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season	Thompson International Speedway	New England Dodge Dealers 150	Race	Tried to avoid a crash, was hit by another car, slid and crashed into cement blocks
Bobby Ball (USA)	January 3, 1953	Midget	Unknown		Carrell Speedway		Race	Crashed into the car of Andy Linden and flipped
Lorenzo Bandini (ITA)	May 7, 1967	Open wheel	Ferrari 312/67	1967 Formula One season	Circuit de Monaco	1967 Monaco Grand Prix	Race	Car skidded, hit straw bales and an iron bollard, caught fire and rolled several times, landing upside down
Ryan Bard (USA)	October 21, 2007	Modified			Abilene Speedway	Southern Challenge	Race	Car rolled, landed on its roof and burst into flames
Emmett Barr (USA)	May 23, 1996	Drag racing	1927 roadster		Quaker City Raceway		Race	Crashed into guardrail, rolled on a hill, helmet came off during rolls and he sustained massive head injuries
George Barringer (USA)	September 2, 1946	Open wheel	Shaw - Offenhauser		Lakewood Speedway	Atlanta 100-Mile National Championship Auto Race	Race	Hit by the car of George Robson, spun and got hit by another car
Lutz Barthel (GER)	June 27, 2004	Touring car	BMW 328	Motor Racing Legends	Nürburgring	2004 Oldtimer Festival	Race	Car rolled at the NKG chicane
Jörg Bastuck (GER)	March 24, 2006	Rally	Citroën C2 GT	2006 World Rally Championship season	Salou, Costa Daurada	2006 Rally Catalunya	Race	Struck while changing tire by the car of Barry Clark
Gary Batson (USA)	May 15, 1992	Stock car	Chevrolet	NASCAR Sportsman Series	Charlotte Motor Speedway	Winston Sportsman 100	Qualifying race	Tried to avoid a spinning car, got on its side, scraped along the wall driver-side down and caught on fire
Erwin Bauer (GER)	June 1, 1958	Sports car	Ferrari 250 TR		Nürburgring	Internationales ADAC 1000 Kilometer Rennen Nürburgring	Post-race	Kept racing after the checkered flag, tried to pass a slower car, slid and hit trees
Carel Godin de Beaufort (NED)	August 1, 1964	Open wheel	Porsche 718	1964 Formula One season	Nürburgring	1964 German Grand Prix	Practice	Left the road at Bergwerk, went down an embankment and hit a tree
Don Beauman (UK)	July 9, 1955	Open wheel	Connaught A Type		Wicklow	Leinster Trophy	Race	Crashed down a hill, hit a tree and caught on fire
Jean Behra (FRA)	August 1, 1959	Sports car	Porsche 718 RSK		AVUS	1959 German Grand Prix support race	Race	Lost control at the banking, hit a concrete building at the top of the banking, was thrown out and hit a flagpole
Stefan Bellof (GER)	September 1, 1985	Sports car	Porsche 956	1985 World Sportscar Championship	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	1985 1000 km of Spa	Race	Collided with Jacky Ickx's Porsche 962C and ran off into the barriers
Georges Berger (BEL)	August 23, 1967	Sports car	Porsche 911		Nürburgring	Marathon de la Route	Race	Went off the road, fell into a ravine and hit a tree
Max Berney (SWI)	April 29, 1956	Touring car	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV	1956 World Sportscar Championship	Mille Miglia	Mille Miglia	Race	Ivo Badaracco lost control of his car and crash off the road, killing his navigator, Max Berney
Attilio Bettega (ITA)	May 2, 1985	Rally	Lancia 037	1985 World Rally Championship season	Zérubia-Santa Giulia stage, Corsica	Tour de Corse	Race	Car slid, hit a pole, fell down a ravine and crashed into a tree on the right side of the roof
Tony Bettenhausen (USA)	May 12, 1961	Open wheel	Watson - Offenhauser	1961 USAC Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1961 Indianapolis 500	Practice	An anchor bolt fell off the front radius rod support, causing the front axle to misalign when braking, which in turn caused the car to turn into the wall, roll along the wall and land upside down in the grass
Jules Bianchi (FRA)	October 5, 2014	Open wheel	Marussia MR03	2014 Formula One season	Suzuka Circuit	2014 Japanese Grand Prix	Race	Lost control, crashed into a recovery vehicle suffering a diffuse axonal injury
Lucien Bianchi (BEL)	March 30, 1969	Sports car	Alfa Romeo T33	1969 World Sportscar Championship season	Circuit de la Sarthe	24 Heures du Mans - essais préliminaires	Testing	Lost control, crashed into a telegraph pole and disintegrated the car into fire
Lee Bible (USA)	March 13, 1929	Land speed record	White Triplex		Ormond Beach, Florida		Record attempt	Crashed into a dune after the gas was released too quickly and was thrown from the car
Gerry Birrell (SCO)	June 23, 1973	Open wheel	Chevron B25	1973 European Formula Two season	Rouen-Les-Essarts	XXI Grand Prix de Rouen	Race	Front left tire deflated and crashed into the Armco barrier. The Armco parted and Birrell suffered fatal head injuries.
Art Bisch (USA)	July 4, 1958	Open wheel	Kuzma - Offenhauser	USAC National Championship	Lakewood Speedway	Atlanta 100-Mile Race	Race	Lost control and flipped twice
Harry Blanchard (USA)	January 30, 1960	Sports car	Porsche 718 RSK	1960 World Sportscar Championship season	Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz	1000 km Buenos Aires	Race	Crashed into the car of Heini Walter and rolled
Marcin Błaszczyński (POL)	October 8, 1994	Touring car	Fiat Cinquecento	Polish Fiat Cinquecento Sporting Cup	Poznań	Polski - Puchar Cinquecento Sporting - trzeci wyścig	Qualifying	Left the road and rolled several times
John Blewett III (USA)	August 16, 2007	Stock car	Chevrolet	2007 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour season	Thompson International Speedway	New England Dodge Dealers 150	Race	Was hit by his brother Jimmy's car and was crushed under the weight
Nicky Bogdan (AFG)	October 12, 1958	Drag racing			Great Lakes Dragaway		Race	Veered left off of the track and plowed through a field
Felice Bonetto (ITA)	November 21, 1953	Sports car	Lancia D24	1953 World Sportscar Championship season	Silao, Mexico	Carrera Panamericana	Race	Crashed into the balcony of a house and hit his head on it
Sébastien Bonisseau (FRA)	May 20, 2015	Touring car	Ford Escort MkII	Unknown	Rallye du Maroc Historique	VI Rallye du Maroc Historique	Rally	Car lost control, went into ditch; as the driver came out to get back onto the track, he was hit by another car
Neil Bonnett (USA)	February 11, 1994	Stock car	Chevrolet	1994 NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona 500	Practice	Spun and slammed head-on into the turn four wall
Joakim Bonnier (SWE)	June 11, 1972	Sports car	Lola T280	1972 World Sportscar Championship season	Circuit de la Sarthe	1972 24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Crashed into another car trying to avoid him and rolled into the forest
Joe Booher (USA)	February 12, 1993	Stock car		NASCAR Goody's Dash Series	Daytona International Speedway	Florida Dash 200	Race	Crashed into a car, turned sideways, hit the wall and was hit by another car
Pietro Bordino (ITA)	April 22, 1928	Open wheel	Bugatti 35B		Alessandria, Italy		Practice	Car hit a dog, jammed the steering, the car lost control, flew in the air and fell into the Tarano
Possum Bourne (NZL)	April 18, 2003	Hill climb	Subaru Forester		Cardrona, New Zealand	Race to the Sky	Pre-race recon	Crashed into by another car while trying to avoid it
Wilfred Bourque (CAN)	August 19, 1909	Open wheel	Knox	1909 AAA Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Prest-O-Lite Trophy Race	Race	Suffered a suspected rear-axle failure resulting in his car flipping end over end on the front stretch.
Baconin Borzacchini (ITA)	September 10, 1933	Open wheel	Maserati 8CM	1933 Grand Prix season	Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Italian Grand Prix	Race	Veered of the road, hit the car of Giuseppe Campari and was thrown out
Guy Bouriat (FRA)	May 21, 1933	Open wheel	Bugatti T51		Péronne, Somme	Picardy Grand Prix	Race	Crashed into another car, left the road, crashed into a tree and caught fire
Joe Boyer (USA)	September 1, 1924	Open wheel	Duesenberg	American Automobile Association National Championship	Altoona Speedway	Fall classic	Race	A tire blew out and he crashed into the upper guardrail
Dave Bradway Jr. (USA)	June 21, 1987	Midget			Skagit Speedway	Super Dirt Cup	Race	Touched wheels with another car, car slammed outside wall nose first, flipped six times, slammed the wall again, tail first, it spun in the air and landed upside down
Don Branson (USA)	November 12, 1966	Midget		USAC sprint car	Ascot Park		Race	Crashed into by the car of Dick Atkins after coming off the wall and rolled over
Scott Brayton (USA)	May 17, 1996	Open wheel	Lola T9500	1996 Indy Racing League season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Indianapolis 500	Practice	Rear tire deflated, car spun and slammed into the wall at 230 mph
Josef Brázdil (CZE)	August 27, 1934	Open wheel	Maserati 6C-34		Masaryk Circuit	Masaryk Grand Prix	Practice	Left wheels went into a ditch, failed to control the car, crashed into a tree and was thrown out: the car continued, hit another tree, went into the air and somersaulted
Gastone Brilli-Peri (ITA)	March 22, 1930	Open wheel	Talbot 700		Tripoli	Tripoli Grand Prix	Practice	Car bounced on the rough surface of the road, went into the right embankment, hit a small wall, rolled and he was thrown out
Chris Bristow (ENG)	June 19, 1960	Open wheel	Cooper T51	1960 Formula One season	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Belgian Grand Prix	Race	Touched wheels with the car of Willy Mairesse, lost control, crashed into an embankment, rolled and he was thrown into barbed wire
Peter Brock (AUS)	August 8, 2006	Sports car	Motec Daytona	Australian Targa Championship	Targa West Rally	Quit Targa West Rally 2006	Race	Skidded on a corner and hit a tree
Dennis Brooks (USA)	June 2001				Auto City Speedway		Race	Heart attack
Jonel Broscanc (USA)	June 6, 1992	Touring car	Audi Quattro	SCCA ProRally	Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally	Susquehannock Trail Performance Rally	Race	Crashed into a tree after sliding in a curve
Jean-Pierre Brousselet (FRA)	June 22, 1958	Sports car	Jaguar D-Type	1958 World Sportscar Championship season	Circuit de la Sarthe	24 Heures du Man	Race	He was fatally injured when his Jaguar went out of control just beyond the Dunlop bridge
David Bruce-Brown (USA)	October 1, 1912	Open wheel	Fiat	American Automobile Association National Championship	Wauwatosa road track	Vanderbilt Cup	Practice	Tire blew out, car flipped and he was thrown out
Jimmy Bryan (USA)	June 19, 1960	Open wheel	Watson-Offenhauser	1960 USAC Championship Car season	Langhorne Speedway	Langhorne 100-Mile Race	Race	Slid, dug in the dirt, touched the car of Jim Hurtubise, went in the air and flipped end over end
Marian Bublewicz (POL)	February 20, 1993	Rally car	Ford Sierra Cosworth 4x4	Polish Rally Championship	Winter Lower Silesian Rally	Winter Lower Silesian Rally	Race	Went out of control, left the road and crashed into a tree on the driver's side
Ivor Bueb (ENG)	July 26, 1959	Open wheel	Cooper T51	BP Trophy	Clermont-Ferrand	II Trophée d'Auvergne	Race	Overshot the corner, crashed and was thrown out
Sébastien Bühlmann (SUI)	April 24, 2004	Rally	Peugeot 106 Rallye	Swiss Rally Championship	Rallye Critérium Jurassien	27ème Rallye Critérium Jurassien	Race	Left the road and crashed
Johan Bullens (BEL)	July 11, 2004	Touring car	BMW M3	Zolder Touring Cup	Circuit Zolder	Zolder Touring Cup, third round	Race	Had a heat attack and crashed into a concrete wall
Hans-Georg Bürger (GER)	August 20, 1980	Sports car	Tiga F280 BMW	1980 European Formula Two season	Zandvoort	XXVIII Grote Prijs van Zanvoort	Warm-up	Went off the road, hit the guard rail head-on and hit his head on a fence pole
Mike Burgmann (AUS)	October 5, 1986	Touring car	Holden Commodore VK SS	Australian Endurance Championship	Mount Panorama Circuit	1986 James Hardie 1000	Race	Gust of wind lifted the car up, pushed it onto outside the track and caused the car to hit a tire barrier: the impact caused the engine to go into the cockpit
Bob Burman (USA)	April 8, 1916	Sports car	Peugeot		Corona	Corona Road Race	Race	One of the wheels broke, sending the car over the curb, going through a crowd barrier and hitting a telephone pole
Josh Burton (USA)	May 24, 2013	Sprint car		Winners Circle Designs	Bloomington Speedway		Race	Crash

C

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Oscar Cabalén (ARG)	August 25, 1967	Stock car	Ford Prototipo TC F.100	Argentinean Turismo Carretera Championship	San Nicolas, Siderurgia	1967 Argentine Grand Prix	Testing	Car veered to the left, rode over the escape lane, crossed the pavement, climbed an embankment, jumped in the air, caught on fire, flew and landed on all four wheels again
Charles Cabannes (FRA)	January 11, 1991	Rally	Mercedes Benz		Dakar Rally	1991 Paris-Dakar Rally	Race	Shot by Malian rebels
Giulio Cabianca (ITA)	June 15, 1961	Formula 1	Cooper-Ferrari	Formula 1	Modena Autodrome		Practice	Gearbox failure caused the car to not slow down in a turn, went through a gate to find an escape route, hit a bystander, crossed a street and crashed into the wall of a workshop
Juan Carlos Cabrera (ARG)	August 7, 1984	Stock car	IKA-Renault Torino	Turismo Carretera	Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez		Series test	Heart attack
Joe Caccia (ITA)	May 26, 1931	Sports car	Duesenberg Jones & Maley	Championship	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	1931 Indianapolis 500	Practice	Went over the turn 2 wall, hit a tree, split the fuel tank and set the car on fire
Attilio Caffaratti (ITA)	September 10, 1900	Trike	Darracq-Soncin		Circuit Brescia	1900 Coppa Florio	Race	Slid off of a slippery road, went into a ditch and hit his head on a tree
James Cagle (USA)	August 16, 1969	Dragster	Chrysler		Oklahoma City International Raceway		Pre-race	Dragster was on jacks when the throttle stuck, car fell off the jack, sped off into a fence and crashed into trees: a piece of metal came from the cockpit and entered his helmet
David Caid (USA)	March 12, 1961	Sprint car		California Racing Association	Imperial Valley Speedway		Race	Car bumped into the back of another car, ran over the back wheels and went end-over-end several times
Giuseppe Campari (ITA)	September 10, 1933	Open wheel	Alfa Romeo Tipo B		Monza	1933 Italian Grand Prix	Race	Crash
Marco Campos (BRA)	October 15, 1995	Open wheel	Lola-T95/50	1995 International Formula 3000 season	Magny-Cours	Magny-Cours F-3000	Race	Crash
Eugenio Castellotti (ITA)	March 14, 1957	Formula 1	Ferrari 801	1957 Formula One season	Modena Autodrome		Testing	Crash
Timothy Cathcart (UK)	August 15, 2014	Rally car	Citroën DS3	2014 British Rally Championship season	Todds Leap Ulster Rally	2014 Todds Leap Ulster Rally	Race	Lost control, left the road and crashed
Philip Catlin (AUS)	November 28, 1956	Sports car	Bugatti Type 51		Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit	The Argus Trophy	Race	Crash
François Cevert (FRA)	October 6, 1973	Formula 1	Tyrrell 006-Ford Cosworth DFV	1973 Formula One season	Watkins Glen	1973 United States Grand Prix	Qualifying	Crash
Nand Lal Chaudhary (IND)	October 12, 2001	Rally car	Maruti Gypsy		Raid de Himalaya	3rd Maruti Raid de Himalaya	Race	Fell into a gorge
Zygmunt Chełstowski (POL)	April 29, 1975	Touring car	Polski Fiat 125p	Rajdowe Samochodowe Mistrzostwa Polski	Rajd Kormoran	VIII. Rajd Kormoran	Race	Crashed into a tree
Gaston Chevrolet (FRA)	November 25, 1920	Open wheel	Frontenac	American Automobile Association National Championship	Beverly Hills Speedway	Beverly Hills 200-Mile Race	Race	Crash
Ettore Chimeri (ITA)	February 27, 1960	Sports car	Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa		Camp Freedom	Gran Premio de Cuba	Practice	Crash
Henri Cissac (FRA)	July 7, 1908	Sports car	Panhard et Levassor		Circuit de la Seine-Inferieure	Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France	Race	Equipment failure
Jim Clark (SCO)	April 7, 1968	Open wheel	Lotus 48 Cosworth-FVA	1968 European Formula Two season	Hockenheim	II Deutschland Trophae	Slipped on wet track, lost control and careened into trees	Crash
Bryan Clauson (USA)	Aug 7, 2016	Midget/USAC/NASCAR/World Of Outlaws/All Stars/Silver Crown/ Indy Car	USAC Champ X's 4	USAC	Belleville, Kansas	Belleville Midget Nationals	Race	Crash
Jeff Clinton (USA)	March 1, 2002	Sports car	Lola B2K/40	Grand American	Homestead	Nextel 250	Practice	Crash
Gonzalo Clopatofsky (COL)	September 19, 2014	Touring car		TC2000 Colombia Championship	Tocancipá		Testing	Crashed into a wall and went into a lagoon
Graham Coaker (GBR)	April 12, 1971	Open wheel	March 712M		Silverstone Circuit		Testing	Crash
Tom Cole (WAL)	June 14, 1953	Sports car	Ferrari 340 MM Spyder Vignale	1953 World Sportscar Championship season	Circuit de la Sarthe	1953 24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Lost control after passing a slower car
Chad Coleman (USA)	August 28, 1998	Stock car	Ford Thunderbird	ARCA Racing Series	Atlanta Motor Speedway	ARCA Georgia Power 200	Race	Crash
Peter Collins (ENG)	August 3, 1958	Open wheel	Ferrari Dino 246	1958 Formula One season	Nürburgring	German GP	Race	Crash
Mark Colton (NIR)	August 5, 1995	Sports car	Pilbeam MP72-Judd CV 3.5	British Hill Climb Championship	Craigantlet Hillclimb	Craigantlet Hillclimb	Practice	Equipment failure
Corky Cookman (USA)	July 19, 1987	Stock car		NASCAR Modified	Thompson International Speedway	Winston 75	Race	Equipment failure
Ashley Cooper (AUS)	July 25, 2008	Touring car	Holden VZ Commodore	2008 Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series	Adelaide Street Circuit	Clipsal 500 (support race)	Race	Crash
Piers Courage (ENG)	June 21, 1970	Open wheel	De Tomaso 505/38	1970 Formula One season	Circuit Zandvoort	1970 Dutch Grand Prix	Race	Crash
Nino Crespi (ITA)	October 3, 1934	Car class	Bugatti		Gávea Street Circuit	Il Grande Premio de Cidade do Rio de Janeiro	Race	Crash
Sergio Cresto (USA)	May 2, 1986	Sports car	Lancia Delta S4	1986 World Rally Championship season	Tour de Corse	Tour de Corse	Rally	Crash
Stanislaus Czaykowski (NED)	September 10, 1933	Open wheel	Bugatti T54		Autodromo Nazionale Monza	Monza Grand Prix	Race	Crash

D

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Cayetano D'Amico (ARG)	September 6, 1931	Stock car	Gardner (automobile)		Arrecifes	Gran Premio de Arrecifes	Race	Flipped after hitting a spectator
Guido D'Ippolito (ITA)	October 8, 1933	Touring car	Alfa Romeo 8C 2600MM	Unknown	Circuito delle Province Meridionali	I Circuito delle Province Meridionali, 1a Coppa Principessa di Piemonte	Race	Hit a horse carriage and hit his head on the axle of the carriage
Guido Dada (ITA)	May 4, 1986	Truck	Iveco 190/38	FIA European Truck Racing Championship	Zolder	Truck Super Prix	Race	Truck rolled and he was crushed inside
Silvio Dal Cin (ITA)	May 2, 1954	Sports car	Maserati A6GCS	1954 World Sportscar Championship	Mille Miglia	Mille Miglia	Race	Car driven by Ferdinando Mancini, crashed into signpoint, killing Dal Cin
Paul Dana (USA)	March 26, 2006	Open wheel	Dallara/Honda	2006 IndyCar Series season	Homestead-Miami Speedway	2006 Toyota Indy 300	Practice	Crashed into the disabled car of Ed Carpenter at 176 mph
Jimmy Davies (USA)	June 11, 1966	Midget			Santa Fe Speedway		Warm-up	Crashed into a wall
Lex Davison (AUS)	February 20, 1965	Open wheel	Brabham/Climax	1965 Tasman Series	Sandown Raceway	International 100	Practice	Heart attack
Alfonso de Portago (SPA)	May 12, 1957	Sports car	Ferrari 335 S	1957 World Sportscar Championship	Guidizzolo	Mille Miglia	Race	de Portago’s front tyre exploded. He lost control of the car; hit a telephone pole, jumped over a brook, then the car bounced back on to the road, slid over the road, spinning, and ended up, wheels down, in a brook at the other side of the road. Besides de Portago, his navigator Edmont Nelson, ten spectators – among them five children – lost their lives
Patrick Depailler (FRA)	August 1, 1980	Open wheel	Alfa Romeo 179	1980 Formula One season	Hockenheimring	1980 German Grand Prix	Testing	Suspension failure caused the car to crash into the wall with fatal head injuries
Sergio Der Stephanian (ITA)	May 11, 1958	Grand touring car	Ferrari 250 GT LWB	1958 World Sportscar Championship	Circuito Piccolo delle Madonie	1958 Targa Florio	Pre-race accident	His car was in a collision with a sand-laden lorry. He died shortly after in hospital
Léon Dernier (BEL)	July 26, 1969	Touring car	Mazda R100	European Touring Car Championship	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	Spa 24 Hours	Race	Crash
Fred DeSarro (USA)	August 8, 1978	Modified	Len Boehler 3	NASCAR Modified Series	Thompson International Speedway	Thompson 150	Practice	Crashed into a sand barrier when the throttle stuck
Christian Devereux (UK)	May 5, 2013	Touring car	Mini Cooper S	Masters Historic Racing Pre-66 Touring Car Championship	Donington Park	Donington Historic Festival - Masters Pre-66 Touring Cars Race	Race	Crashed into another car
Mark Donohue (USA)	August 19, 1975	Open wheel	March 751	1975 Formula One season	Österreichring	1975 Austrian Grand Prix	Practice	A tire failure caused the car to crash into the wall and vault over the fence: died of a blood clot in the brain two days later
Tommy Druar (USA)	June 10, 1989	Stock car	Chevrolet Cavalier	NASCAR Modified	Lancaster Speedway	30-lap NASCAR Modified race	Race	Crash - jumped wheels with another car - hit wall driver's side first
Ronnie Duman (USA)	June 9, 1968	Open wheel	Gerhardt/Ford	1968 USAC Champ Car season	Milwaukee Mile	Rex Mays 150	Race	Crashed into the car of Bay Darnell, caught fire and was hit by another car
Clive Dunfee (GBR)	September 24, 1932	Endurance	Bentley Speed Six	BRDC	Brooklands	BRDC 500 Miles	Race	Car cartwheeled, hit a tree and he was ejected
Arie Duyzers (NLD)	June 2, 1985	Touring car			IJsselstein		Race	Lost control and rolled several times

E

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Eugene Earixson (USA)	September 12, 1948	Stock car			Chariton Speed Bowl		Race	Car bumped from behind and flipped
Cameron Earl (UK)	June 18, 1952	Formula 1	English Racing Automobiles	Formula 1	MIRA Ltd.		Private test	Lost control, went off the track and rolled several times
Dale Earnhardt (USA)	February 18, 2001	Stock car	Chevrolet Monte Carlo	2001 NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Daytona Speedway	2001 Daytona 500	Race	Suffered a basilar skull fracture in crash
Sonny Easley (USA)	January 15, 1978	Stock car	1968 Camaro	1978 Grand American Sportsman Series	Riverside Raceway	1978 Stock Car Products 300	Practice	Crash
Stefan Eickelmann (GER)	October 10, 1998	Touring car	BMW M3	VLN	Nurburgring	22. DMV-250-Meilen-Rennen, Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring (Veedol-Cup), 9th round	Race	Heart attack
Ed Elisian (USA)	August 30, 1959	Open wheel	Travelon Trailer Special	1959 USAC Championship Car season	Milwaukee Mile	Milwaukee 200	Race	Fuel cell ruptured in crash and he burned to death
John Engle (USA)	August 19, 2007	Touring car	BMW M3	National Auto Sport Association	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course	Unknown	Race	Spun in oil and crashed into a parked car
Sébastien Enjolras (FRA)	May 3, 1997	Sportscar	WR LM97	Non-championship	Le Mans	1997 24 Hours of Le Mans	Pre-race test	Part of the rear bodywork of his car came loose, causing it to airborne and exploded in flames
Marcel Escoda (AND)	September 6, 2003	Touring car	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VI	Catalan Rallying Championship	Criterium del Berguedà	XXXII Criterium del Berguedà	Race	Crashed into a tree
Richie Evans (USA)	October 24, 1985	Stock car	Chevrolet Cavalier	NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series	Martinsville Speedway	Winn-Dixie 500 modified feature	Practice	Crash
Bunk Ezzell (USA)	July 24, 1950	Stock car	Buick		Warner Robins Super Speedway		Qualifying	Rolled and caught on fire

F

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Bertrand Fabi (CAN)	February 21, 1986	Formula 3	Ralt R30	Formula 3	Goodwood Circuit		Testing	Left the road because of icy conditions, hit the barriers and rolled
Juan Oscar Facchini (ARG)	November 15, 1964	Touring car	Chevrolet Cupé	Turismo Carretera	Tandil	XII Vuelta de Tandil Ciudad de Turismo	Race	Lost control of the car and crashed into a bus, splitting the car in half
Milan Facek (CZE)	August 3, 1986	Touring car	Lada VFTS	European Rally Championship	Rally Vida	XVI Rally Vida	Rally	Lost control and hit a tree
Frank Facenda (USA)	September 12, 1947	Midget car			Seekonk Speedway		Race	Overturned and spun into a rail
Luigi Fagioli (ITA)	May 31, 1952	Sportscar	Lancia Aurelia B20	Non-championship	Circuit de Monaco	1952 Monaco Grand Prix	Practice	Crashed into stone balustrade and thrown out of car
Miroslav Fajkus (CZE)	May 4, 2008	Sports car	Lola T99/50	Czech Hillclimb Championship	Náměšť nad Oslavou	XXVII Zámecký vrch Mann Filter - Náměšť nad Oslavou	Hill climb	Went off the road, hit a small hill and crashed into a tree
Guido Falaschi (ARG)	November 13, 2011	Touring car	Ford Falcon	Turismo Carretera	Autódromo Juan Manuel Fangio		Race	Crashed into tire wall and hit by another car on driver's side door
Walt Faulkner (USA)	April 22, 1956	Stock car	Ford	USAC Late Model Championship	Vallejo Raceway		Qualifier	Hit rut, flipped, was partially ejected when the car rolled on him
Věra Filipová (CZE)	June 1, 2013	Touring car	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	Central Europe Rally Cup Championship	Rallye Templice	1. Rallye Teplice 2013	Race	Left the road, rolled and hit a tree
David Fisher (USA)	January 13, 2001	Touring car	BMW M3	SCCA	Phoenix International Raceway	Unknown	Qualifying	Crashed into wall at turn 4
Jim Fitzgerald (USA)	November 8, 1987	Sports car	Nissan 300ZX Turbo	Trans-Am Championship	Streets of St. Petersburg, Florida	Grand Prix of St. Petersburg	Race	Accident
Al Fleming (UK)	April 11, 2014	Touring car	Lotus Elan		Hockenheimring	Hockenheim Historic – Das Jim Clark Revival	Qualifying	Went out of control and flipped
Billy Foster (CAN)	January 20, 1967	Stock car	Dodge Charger	NASCAR Grand National Series	Riverside International Raceway	Motor Trend 500	Practice	Wheel drum broke and crashed into wall when his head struck the barrier
Eric Forrest-Greene  (ARG)	January 25, 1954	Sports car	Aston Martin DB3	1954 World Sportscar Championship season	Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz	1000 km Buenos Aires	Race	Crashed and rolled his car, landing upside in flames. Later died from his injures
Roger Freeman (UK)	July 12, 2003	Rally car	Subaru WRX	SCCA ProRally Championship	Oregon Trail SCCA ProRally	Oregon Trail Rally	Race	Crashed into a tree
Rodger Freeth (NZL)	September 19, 1993	Rally car	Subaru Legacy	1993 World Rally Championship season	Third rally stage at Mundaring	Rally Australia	Race	Crashed into pine plantation
Piero Frescobaldi (ITA)	July 25, 1964	Touring car	Lancia Flavia	Non-championship	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	24 Hours of Spa	Race	Went off the road and rolled
Joe Fry (UK)	July 29, 1950		Freikaiserwagen		Blanford Circuit	1950 Blandford Hillclimb	Practice	Crashed off of road
Yukio Fukuzawa (JPN)	February 12, 1969	Sports car	Toyota 7		Fuji Speedway		Testing	Car went off road and crashed into sign
Ross Fyfe (AUS)	December 28, 1991	Stock car	Holden Torana	Tasmanian Super Sedan Championship	Derwent Valley Speedway		Race	Bounced off of a wall, stuck the throttle and slammed head on into the inside wall

G

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Ray Gaarsland (USA)	August 19, 1962	Stock car	Unknown	Lake Region Racing Association Championship	Weetown Outlaw Speedway	Unknown	Race	His car flipped and his seat belt was ripped away from its moorings
Marcos Gaggino (ARG)	May 9, 1984	Stock car	Ford Falcon (Argentina) SP221	Campeonato Argentino de Turismo Carretera	Punta Alta	IV Vuelta de la Ciudad de Punta Alta	Test	Tried to avoid a truck, lost control, hit an embankment, rolled several times, crashed into a small wall and was thrown out
Totò Gagliano (ITA)	September 1, 2000	Touring car	Honda Civic	Non-championship	Nicolosi-Etna	37° Corsa dell'Etna	Hillclimb	Crashed into a wall to avoid another car and died 34 days later
Mike Gagliardo (USA)	May 20, 2001	Sports car	Chevrolet Corvette	Trans-Am Series	Mosport International Raceway	Trans-Am Series 125	Race	Spun out, stalled and hit by another car
David Gaines (USA)	May 16, 1990	Stock car	Oldsmobile	NASCAR Limited Sportsman Division	Lowes Motor Speedway	Unknown	Practice	Hit by the car of Peter Gibbons in the rear and then hit broadside by the car of Steve McEachern
John Gall (USA)	August 8, 1975	Midget	Unknown	USAC National Midget Series	Indianapolis Speedrome	Unknown	Race	Struck a concrete wall, flipped over it, and slammed into a light pole: caused by a stuck throttle
Frank Galvin (USA)	December 3, 1916	Open wheel	Premier		Uniontown Speedway	Universal Trophy	Race	Crashed into grandstand
Ian Gammon-Hardaway (UK)	May 26, 1991	Touring car	Citroën 2CV	Citroën 2CV National Championship	Lydden Hill		Race	Seat collapsed after the car went off the road
Jerry Gannon (USA)	June 1, 2002	Dragster	Chevrolet Camaro	Jet funny car	Atlanta Dragway		Race	Hit two walls, flipped and caught fire
Dean Gardner (USA)	October 3, 1946	Midget	Ford		Phoenix Speedway		Race	Crash
Johnny Garrett (USA)	March 15, 1953	Sprint car		WCRA Sprint Cars	Clovis Speedway		Race	Hit car of George Amick, hit wall and flipped
Jo Gartner (AUT)	June 1, 1986	Sports car	Porsche 962C	1986 World Sportscar Championship season	Le Mans	1986 24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Crashed into the concrete barrier on Mulsanne Straight, somersaulted, hit a phone pole and caught fire
Ray Gastelu (USA)	June 30, 2001	Stock car			Wall Township Speedway		Race	Heart attack
Jean Gaupillat (FRA)	July 22, 1934	Open wheel	Bugatti T51	1934 Grand Prix season	Dieppe	1934 Grand Prix de Dieppe	Race	Crashed into a tree
Chris Gehrke (USA)	May 4, 1991	Stock car	Oldsmobile	ARCA RE/MAX Series	Talladega	Poulan Pro 500-K	Race	Flipped several times and was hit by another car
Ignazio Giunti (ITA)	January 10, 1971	Sports car	Ferrari 312PB	1971 World Sportscar Championship season	Autódromo Juan y Oscar Gálvez	1971 1000 Kilómetros de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires	Race	Crashed into the stopped car of Jean-Pierre Beltoise, somersaulted and caught fire
Fritz Glatz (AUT)	July 14, 2002	Open wheel	Arrows Footwork FA17 - Ford	Euroboss	Autodrom Most		Race	Hit curb, somersaulted and was destroyed
Bob Goldich (USA)	March 23, 1957	Sports car	Arnolt-Bristol Bolide	1957 World Sportscar Championship	Sebring International Raceway	12-Hour Florida International Grand Prix of Endurance for the Amoco Trophy	Race	Crashed at the esses, flipped his car several times. He died instantly of a fractured skull and broken neck
Joseph Göttgens (NLD)	May 12, 1957	Sports car	Triumph TR3	1957 World Sportscar Championship	near Florence	Mille Miglia	Race	He crashed his car near Florence and died of his injuries in a hospital
Mike Grbac (USA)	November 29, 1978	Stock car	AMC Gremlin		Reading Fairgrounds Speedway	Schmidt's 200	Race	Hit by another car roof first
Paul Greifzu (GER)	May 10, 1952	Sports car			Rennstrecke Dessau	3.Dessauer Wagen- und Motorradrennen	Practice	Engine failure resulting in crash and got thrown out

H

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Cliff Haas (USA)	October 20, 1990	Stock car	Unknown	Unknown	Lernerville Speedway	150-lap Enduro race	Race	Skidded in a turn, was hit by another car and overturned
Harold Haberling (USA)	June 30, 1961	Stock car	1955 Chevrolet	1961 NASCAR Championship	Daytona Speedway	1961 Daytona 500	Practice	Crashed into wall and rolled
Jack Habermehl (USA)	June 21, 1948	Midget	Kurtis-Offenhauser		Los Angeles Coliseum		Race	Crashed into a wall and flipped
Enrique Hachmeister (GTM)	May 5, 1950	Touring car	Lincoln	Non-championship	Chihuahua (state)	1950 Carrera Panamericana	Race	Rolled while trying to pass another car and was launched through the window
Akira Hagiwara (JPN)	April 7, 1986	Touring car	Mercedes 190E	Japanese Touring Car Championship	Sportsland SUGO		Test	Crashed into a barrier and burst into flames
Peter Hall (AUS)	October 27, 2013	Touring car	Datsun 260Z	Victorian State Circuit Racing Championship	Phillip Island	Unknown	Race	Crashed into a stalled Lamborghini Gallardo
Hugh Hamilton (NIR)	August 26, 1934	Open wheel	Maserati 8CM	Championship	Bremgarten	1934 Swiss Grand Prix	Race	Left wheel broke, overcorrected the turn, hit a tree, slid and hit another tree
Shane Hammond (USA)	April 6, 2008	Midget		NorthEastern Midget Championship	Thompson International Speedway	Icebreaker 2008	Race	Throttle stuck, tangled with another car and hit a loose banner billboard
Gregg Hansford (AUS)	March 5, 1995	Touring car	Ford Mondeo	Championship	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	1995 Australian Super Touring Championship	Race	Crashed into a wall, went into the track and got hit by the car of Mark Adderton
Walt Hansgen (USA)	April 2, 1966	Sportscar	Ford GT Mk II A	1966 World Sportscar Championship season	Circuit de la Sarthe	24 Heures de Mans - Essais Prelimiaires	Test	Crashed into a barrier that was placed in an escape road
Dickie Harrell (USA)	September 12, 1971	Dragster	Chevrolet Vega	AHRA Top Fuel	Golden Horseshoe Dragway		Race	Crashed into a light pole after the chutes couldn't open
László Hartmann (HUN)	May 15, 1938	Open wheel	Maserati 4CM		Mellaha	XII Gran Premio de Tripoli	Race	Overturned after the car of Giuseppe Farina clipped his left wheel
Friday Hassler (USA)	February 17, 1972	Stock car	Chevrolet	1972 NASCAR Grand National Series	Daytona Speedway	1972 Daytona 500	Race	Spun in a pile-up and was hit head-on by another car
Kouichi Hatakeyama (JPN)	January 26, 1969				Fuji Speedway	100 km of Fuji	Race
Paul Hawkins (AUS)	May 26, 1969	Sportscar	Lola T70 Mk3B	British Sportscar Championship	Oulton Park	Tourist Trophy	Race	Lost control, went up an embankment, hit a tree and caught fire
Bert Hawthorne (IRE)	April 14, 1972	Open wheel	Leda-Tui AM29	1972 European Formula 2 Championship	Hockenheimring	VI Deutschland Trophäe, Jim Clark Gedächtnisrennen	Practice	Hit by another car and pushed into a guardrail, where he caught on fire
John Heath (ENG)	April 29, 1955	Sports car	HWM-Jaguar	1956 World Sportscar Championship	near Ravenna	Mille Miglia	Race	He came off the wet road before Ravenna and overturned into a ditch. He died the next day from his injuries in a local hospital
Kara Hendrick (USA)	October 5, 1991	Midget		USAC Western States Midget	Cajon Raceway	USAC Western States Midget	Race	Ran over ripple strips, flipped the car, hit a concrete wall, was hit by another car, went over a wall and hit a signboard before it fell on a dirt embankment
Ralph Hepburn (USA)	May 16, 1948	Open wheel	Kurtis 200 Novi	American Automobile Association National Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Practice	Went into the grass, overcorrected and hit the wall at a 45-degree angle
Louis Héry (FRA)	July 29, 1956	Sports car	Monopole-Panhard X86	Non-championship race	Circuit de la Sarthe	24 Heures du Mans	Race	Héry over - turned his car at Maison Blanche and succumbed to his injuries on the way to hospital
Jim Hickman (USA)	July 31, 1982	Open wheel	March-Cosworth	1982 Championship Auto Racing Teams	Milwaukee Mile	Tony Bettenhausen 200	Practice	Crash
Bill Hollowell (ENG)	August 9, 1925	Open wheel	350cc AJS		Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	1925 Belgian Grand Prix	Race	Crash
Ted Horn (USA)	October 10, 1948	Open wheel	Horn-Offenhauser	American Automobile Association National Championship	DuQuoin State Fairgrounds	Duquoin 100 Mile Race	Race	Equipment failure
William Horstmeyer (USA)	August 22, 1964	Open wheel	Kuzma-Offenhauser	United States Auto Club	Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack	Tony Bettenhausen Memorial 100	Race	Crash
Markus Höttinger (GER)	April 13, 1980	Open wheel	Maurer MM80	1980 European Formula Two season	Hockenheimring	Jim Clark Rennen	Race	Debris
Jerry Hoyt (USA)	July 10, 1955	Open wheel	Offenhauser	American Automobile Association Sprint Car Championship	Oklahoma City State Fairgrounds		Race	Crash
Jim Hughes (USA)	March 26, 1960	GT	Lotus Elite	FIA GT Cup	Sebring International Raceway	1960 Tenth Annual Sebring International Grand Prix of Endurance for the Amoco Trophy	Race	The Lotus Elite suffered a brake failure and headed for the escape road, only to found a photographer standing here, complete with tripod. Hughes tried to avoid him, but rolled his little Lotus, striking the photographer and killing them both.
Denny Hulme (NZL)	October 4, 1992	Touring car	BMW M3	Australian Touring Cars	Mount Panorama	Tooheys 1000	Race	Heart attack
Xavier Hutin (SUI)	October 9, 1988	Touring car	Renault 5	Swiss Rally Championship	Rallye de Court	Rallye de Court	Race	Crashed into a tree

I

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Ralph Iacovetta (USA)	July 8, 1948	Roadster			Englewood Speedway		Race	Rolled after locking wheels with another car
Gus Ianacone (USA)	August 5, 1934			Garden State Racing Association	Woodbridge Speedway	Five-mile qualifying race	Race	Skidded, spun, hit a guard rail, was hit by another car, was thrown out and run over
Paco Ibarra (MEX)	March 16, 1958	Sports car	Jaguar C-Type		Orizaba (public roads)		Test	Hit a stone and rolled after trying to pass a truck
Iván Iglesias (BRA)	October 21, 1973	Touring car	Chevrolet Opala 4	Rio Grande do Sul State Division 3 Championship	Autódromo Internacional de Tarumã	6a. etapa do Campeonato Gaúcho de Divisão 3	Race	After hitting another car, both went up an embankment, drivers were launched into the air and both slammed to the ground. Iglesias's car exploded upon impact.
Silvio Ilari (ARG)	March 30, 1923	Stock car			Rosario-Santa Fe-Rosario (public roads)		Test	Crash
Anthony Imbimbo (USA)	July 2, 1948	Midget		American Racing Drivers Club Midget Championship	Hinchliffe Stadium	Consolation race	Race	Spun trying to avoid a crash, hit a car and flipped
Vladimiro Immigrati (ITA)	September 20, 1997	Touring car	Fiat Cinquecento Sporting	Campionato Italiano Rally 2 Litri	Rally San Martino di Castrozza	Rally San Martino di Castrozza	1997, seventh special stage, Valnevera	Slid off the road, fell down a ravine and crashed against a tree
Bill Infantino (USA)	August 24, 1958	Sports car	Ferrari		Holland Hill Climb	Holland Hill Climb	Practice	Lost control, hit concrete posts, car flipped and driver was thrown out
Leo Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	June 21, 1974	Sprint car			Rocky Mountain Raceway	Copper Cup	Race	Crashed into walls and fuel tank ruptured
Bill Ingram (USA)	August 14, 1940	Midget car		United Midget Racing Association	Balboa Stadium		Race	Crash
Freddie Inscore (USA)	January 28, 1946	Roadster			Sportsman Park		Race	Rolled the car
Harris Insinger (USA)	September 8, 1935		Gilmore Red Lion/Garnant Special		Oakland Speedway	Feature race	Race	Locked wheels with another car and somersaulted several times
Ralph Ireland (USA)	August 21, 1911	Touring car	Staver-Chicago	AAA National Championship	Elgin Road Course	Elgin National Trophy	Practice	Tire deflated, car veered into a ditch, rear wheel collapsed and the car rolled, crushing him
Hengkie Iriawan (INA)	April 23, 1972	Open wheel			Ipoh Temporary Circuit	3rd BP Kart Prix	Race	Crash
Kenny Irwin, Jr. (USA)	July 7, 2000	Stock car	Chevrolet Monte Carlo	Winston Cup Series	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	thatlook.com 300	Practice	Stuck throttle caused him to crash into the wall
Sonny Irwin (USA)	June 11, 1992	Sprint car			Manzanita Speedway		Race	Slid into a wall
Bobby Isaac (USA)	August 13, 1977	Stock car	Chevrolet Nova	NASCAR Late Model Sportsman	Hickory Motor Speedway	1977 late model sportsman race	Post race	Heat exhaustion
Masazi Iso (JPN)	March 6, 1982	Open wheel		Formula Three	Suzuka Circuit		Practice	Hit while walking away from crash
Derek Israel (USA)	September 14, 1997	Touring car	Datsun 510	Sports Car Club of America Pacific Coast Championship	Sears Point	GT-4 race	Race	Struck by debris from another car
Buddy Iuliano (USA)	October 5, 1968	Dragster	Chevrolet	National Hot Rod Association	Coastal Plains Raceway		Race	Car overturned and he was ejected

J

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Lewis Jackson (USA)	November 18, 1916	Open wheel	Marmon	American Automobile Association National Championship	Santa Monica	1916 American Grand Prize	Race	Went off the track, hit several palm trees and a lemonade stand
Bruce Jacobi (USA)	February 17, 1983	Stock car	Chevrolet	Winston Cup Series	Daytona International Speedway	UNO twin 125 qualifiers	Qualifying	Lost control, flipped and the roll cage failed; Jacobi died almost four years after the crash
Alexandre Jacopini (FRA)	May 31, 2002	Rally car	Peugeot 206 XS Sport	2002 World Rally Championship season	Rallye Alsace-Vosges	French Rally Championship	Race	Crashed heavily after losing control of the car
Patrick Jacquemart (FRA)	July 9, 1981	Touring car	Renault 5 Turbo Alpine	International Motor Sports Association	Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course		Testing	Crashed into a sandbank
Seppo Jämsä (FIN)	August 2, 1974	Touring car	Mini (Mark I)	1974 World Rally Championship season	1000 Lakes Rally	1000 Lakes Rally	Race	Crashed head on into a railing bridge
Tony Jankowiak (USA)	April 22, 1990	Stock car	Pontiac Sunbird	NASCAR Modified	Stafford Motor Speedway	Coors Spring Sizzler 200	Race	Crashed into turn one wall
Charlie Jarzombek (USA)	March 22, 1987	Stock car	Chevrolet Cavalier	NASCAR Modified	Martinsville Speedway	Miller 200	Race	Stuck throttle caused the car to hit inner curb, spin, hit another car, and slam into wall
Harry Jastrow (USA)	September 15, 1935	Midget			Milwaukee Mile		Race	Car locked wheels with another car, flipped and crushed him
Charly Jellen (Austria-Hungary)	May 7, 1934	Sports car	Alfa Romeo 8C		Ingolstadt autobahn		Testing	Went out of control and flipped
Frank Jenkinson (USA)	July 27, 1930	Open wheel	Frontenac-Ford		Jungle Park Speedway		Race	Spindle broke on the right front axle and car went through a fence into the woods
Paul Jessen (Germany)	June 20, 1925		Excelsior		Nideggen	III Eifelrundfahrt	Race	Left road, hit tree and was hit by another driver
Bill Johnson (USA)	August 26, 1940		Studebaker		Oakland Speedway		Practice	Went out of control, hit a guardrail and flipped four times
Blaine Johnson (USA)	August 31, 1996	Drag racing		NHRA Winston Drag Racing Series	Indianapolis Raceway Park	Mac Tools US Nationals	Qualifying	Connecting rod broke, cut a tire, sent the car into the left guardrail and came back to hit the right retaining wall
Niokoa Johnson (USA)	March 23, 2014	Mini stock car			Bubba Raceway Park		Time trial	Crash
Slick Johnson (USA)	February 11, 1990	Stock car	Pontiac	ARCA Series	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona ARCA 200	Race	Crashed and was hit by five other cars
Van Johnson (USA)	July 19, 1959	Open wheel	Kurtis - Offenhauser	USAC national championship	Williams Grove Speedway	Indianapolis Sweepstakes	Race	Hit by the car of Joe Barzda and flipped
Hans-Peter Joisten (GER)	July 21, 1973	Touring car	BMW 3.0 CSL	European Touring Car Championship	Spa-Francorchamps	24 Heures de Spa-Francorchamps	Race	Crashed into guardrail and was hit by the car of Roger Dubos: both drivers died in the crash

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Robert Kaarto (USA)	July 8, 1966	Stock car	Unknown	Unknown	Superior Speedway	Unknown	Race	Hit by another car while getting out of his burning car
Akihiro Kabe (JPN)	May 24, 1994	Touring car	Ferrari F40	Unknown	Stuart Highway	Northern Territory Cannonball Run	Race	Lost control, hit two officials at a checkpoint, went onto the gravel and hit a parked Jeep
Scott Kalitta (USA)	June 21, 2008	Drag racing	Toyota Solara funny car	NHRA Funny Car	Old Bridge Township Raceway Park	2008 NHRA Lucas Oil Supernationals qualifying	Race	Engine exploded, damaged parachutes and crashed at the end of the sand trap
Ken Kalla (USA)	April 30, 1983	Stock car	Buick Regal	ARCA Racing Series	Talladega Superspeedway	1983 Permatex 500	Race	Lost control and crashed into the infield guardrail
Hiroshi Kazato (JPN)	June 2, 1974	Sports car	Chevron B26 - BMW	Fuji Grand Champion Series	Fuji Speedway	Fuji Grand Champion Series, 2nd round, 2nd race	Race	Crashed into the two leaders of the race and caught fire
Ray Keech (USA)	June 15, 1929	Open wheel	Miller "Simplex Piston Ring"		Altoona Speedway	Altoona 200-Mile Race	Race	Crashed into a loose piece of guardrail, rolled several times and caught fire at the bottom of the track
Al Keller (USA)	November 19, 1961	Open wheel	Philipps - Offenhauser "Konstant Hot"		Arizona State Fairgrounds Track		Race	Right wheel got caught in a rut, car spun, rolled broadside several times and landed upside down on a chain link fence
Csaba Kesjár (HUN)	June 24, 1988	Open wheel	Dallara 388	German Formula Three Championship	Norisring	200 Meilen von Nurnberg	Practice	Brakes failed, hit a guardrail, was thrown into the air and landed upside down
Johnny Key (USA)	June 30, 1954	Midget			Cincinnati Race Bowl	American Automobile Association Midget Championship	Race	A broken radius rod caused the car to crash into a wall and he was thrown out of the car: he was then run over by the car of Jack Turner
Billy Kimmel (USA)	September 2, 2007	Sprint car			Williams Grove Speedway		Race	Flipped several times and was hit by another car
Harold Kite (USA)	October 17, 1965	Stock car	Plymouth	Grand National Series	Lowe's Motor Speedway	1965 National 400	Race	Crashed into the wall while trying to avoid an accident
Ricky Knotts (USA)	February 14, 1980	Stock car	Oldsmobile	1980 NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Daytona Speedway	1980 Daytona 500	Qualifying	Car's hood flew up, car lost control, crashed into the outside wall, was hit by the car of Blackie Wangerin and spun into the inside retaining wall
Helmuth Koinigg (AUT)	October 6, 1974	Open wheel	Surtees TS16/3 - Ford	Formula 1	Watkins Glen	1974 United States Grand Prix	Race	Deflated right tire caused the car to crash head-on into crash mesh: the car went straight under the guardrail and he was decapitated
Dimitris Koliopanos (GRC)	September 27, 2003	Touring car	Toyota Yaris	European Rally Championship	ELPA Rally	ELPA Rally	Race	Crashed into phone pole and electrical transformer fell on car
Alexander Nikolaevich Konshin (RUS)	September 22, 1912	Open wheel	Opel	Unknown	Elenino-Klin-Elenino	First Russian Automobile Club Moscow 100 km	Race	Explosion
Ingo Koschmieder (GER)	July 5, 2014	Touring car	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII	Unknown	ADAC-Grabfeldrallye	21. Nationalen ADAC-Grabfeldrallye 2014	Race	Went off the road and into a ditch
Sandor Kovacs (USA)	May 6, 2000	Rally car	Toyota Celica All-Trac	Sports Car Club of America Div ProRally Championship	Sawmill Club Rally	Sawmill Club Rally	Rally stage	Crash
Ferdinand Křehlík (CZE)	September 20, 2003	Touring car	Renault Clio	Non-championship	Rallye Světlá	Rallye Světlá	Race	Crashed into a tree
Jeff Krosnoff (USA)	July 14, 1996	Open wheel	Reynard 96l - Toyota	1996 IndyCar season	Toronto Road Course	1996 Molson Indy Toronto	Race	Crash
Steve King (USA)	August 9, 2006	Sprint car			Knoxville Raceway	Knoxville Nationals	Race	Crash
Krzysztof Krajewski (POL)	July 24, 1971	Touring car	Polski Fiat 125p	Non-championship	Rajd Festiwalowy	2. Rajd Festiwalowy	Race	Left the road and crashed

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Stefano La Motta (ITA)	April 1, 1951	Touring Car	Alfa Romeo 1900		Giro de Sicilia	XI Giro Automobilistico de Sicilia	Race	Gearbox trouble caused the car to hit the wall of a house and bring it down
Piero La Pera (ITA)	October 2, 1981	Sports Car	Lola T298		Val d'Anapo-Sortino	Val d'Anapo-Sortino - Trofeo Giovanni Oddo Hillclimb	Test	Hit another car, slid, destroyed a small wall, crashed through a gap between two guard rails and went up in flames
Daniel Ray Laber (USA)	September 19, 1988	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown	Magic City Speedway	Unknown	Unknown	Unknown
Bob Lace (USA)	September 8, 1963	Dragster			LaPlace Dragway		Race	Went off the track and rolled
Jim Ladd, Jr. (USA)	November 15, 1964	Sports Car	Austin-Healey 3000	American Road Racing Championship	Riverside International Raceway	American Road Race of Champions, D Production Sports Car Race	Race	Spun, hit by another car, went up an embankment and flipped twice
Jean-Louis Lafosse (FRA)	June 13, 1981	Sports Car	Rondeau M379 C Ford Cosworth	1981 World Sportscar Championship season	Circuit de la Sarthe	1981 24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Suspension failure caused the car to slam into the right-hand barrier and come back into the other barrier: the car was completely destroyed
Hans Laine (FIN)	May 30, 1970	Sports Car	Porsche 908	1970 World Sportscar Championship season	Nürburgring	1970 1000km of Nürburgring	Qualifying	Car had a blow over, crashed heavily against the pavement and rolled again; the car then caught fire
Roy Lake (USA)	September 24, 1938	Sprint Car		American Automobile Association Sprint Car Championship	Allentown Fairgrounds		Race	Crashed into a concrete wall
Eugene Lambert (USA)	September 29, 1940	Stock Car			Winchester Speedway			Crash
Percy E. Lambert (UK)	October 31, 1913		Talbot 25 hp 4.5-liter		Brooklands	Land Speed Record	Record Attempt	Rear tire disintegrated, went up an embankment, rolled and he was thrown out
Raymond Lambert (SUI)	June 1961	Touring Car	Ferrari 250GT		Faucille	Course de Côté de La Faucille	Post Race	Lost control and rolled
Catullo Lami (ITA)	August 13, 1939	Open Wheel	Maserati 6CM		Pescara Circuit	XV Coppa Tito Acerbo	Race	Went off the road and rolled
Evasio Lampiano (ITA)	June 14, 1923	Sports Car	Fiat 804		Faucille	Course de Côte de La Faucille	Practice	Crashed into a curbstone, went off the road, hit an embankment and overturned
Jean-Marie Landeau (FRA)	June 1976	Touring Car	Alpine Renault A110 1800		Ronde Limousine	Ronde Limousine	Race	Crashed into a tree after going off the road
Ian Landies (USA)	August 27, 2000	Dragster	Chevrolet	2000 National Hot Rod Association Division 1	Cecil County Dragway		Race	Crossed the center line, slid down the guard wall and hit a telephone pole
Jerry Landon (USA)	April 29, 1989	Open Wheel			Kalamazoo Speedway		Race	Crashed into another car, went airborne and hit the outside wall
Jerzy Landsberg (POL)	April 21, 1979	Rally car	Opel Kadett GT/E	Polish Rally Championship	Rajd Krakowski (1979 variant)	IV Rajd Krakowski - Krokusy	Rally Stage	Crashed when it left the road
Ron Laney (USA)	January 30, 2002	Sprint Car		American Sprint Car Series	East Bay Raceway	4th King of The 360	Race	Crashed into outside wall, flipped and was hit by another car
Sigi Lang (LIE)	May 10, 1970	Sports Car	Porsche 907		Säckingen-Eggberg	Säckingen-Eggberg Bergrennen hillclimb	Race	Crashed into a tree
Xu Lang (CHN)	June 16, 2008	Pick-up Truck	Zhengzhou		Transorientale	Transorientale	Marathon Race	Tow cable snapped and hit him in the face when he was helping another car
David Langheinrich (GER)	April 29, 2006	Rally car	Trabant 1.1	German Rally Series	Sachsen-Rallye (2006 second special stage, Lichtentanne 1)	40 AvD Sachsen-Rallye	Rally Stage	Went off the road, flipped over in a ditch and crashed into a tree
Jud Larson (USA)	June 11, 1966	Sprint Car	Dunseth Sprinter	USAC Sprint Division	Reading Fairgrounds Speedway		Race	Crashed into another car, rolled and hit a fence
Massimo Larini (ITA)	July 21, 1973	Touring Car	Alfa Romeo GTAm	European Touring Car Championship	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps	1973 Spa 24 Hours	Race	Lost control, hit the barrier head on and rolled several times
Jean Larivière (FRA)	June 23, 1951	Touring Car	Ferrari 212 Export C	Non-championship	Circuit de la Sarthe	1951 24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Left the track, jumped an embankment and crashed into a barbed wire barricade
Arsenio Laurel (PHL)	November 19, 1967	Touring Car	Lotus 41	Unknown	Guia Circuit	XIV Grande Prêmio de Macau	Race	Lost control, crashed into the Mandarin bend and caught on fire
Ed Lawrence (USA)	March 20, 1959	Sports Car	Maserati 300S	1959 World Sportscar Championship	Sebring International Raceway	12-Hour Florida International Grand Prix of Endurance for the Amoco Trophy	Practice
Glenn Leasher (USA)	September 10, 1962		Infinity		Bonneville Salt Flats	Land Speed Record	Record Attempt	Car exploded on the flats
Vern Leech (AUS)	January 2, 1939	Open Wheel	MG P-type		Lobethal	1939 Australian Grand Prix	Race	Crash
Jason Leffler (USA)	June 12, 2013	Sprint Car		Tri-State RaceSaver Series 410 Sprint Car Championship	Bridgeport Speedway	Night of Wings 2013	Qualifying	Front suspension failed, causing the car to hit a wall and flip several times
Marcel Lehoux (FRA)	July 19, 1936	Open Wheel	ERA R3B		Deauville	Grand Prix de Deauville	Race	Crashed into the car of Giuseppe Farina, flipped and he was thrown out
Pierre Levegh (FRA)	June 11, 1955	Sports Car	Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR	World Sports Car Championship	Le Mans	24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Crash
Miroslav Levora (CZE)	June 21, 2008	Touring car	Škoda Fabia 2000	Czech Rally Championship	Horácká Rally	XIX Horácká Rally	Rally stage	Went off the road on a jump and hit a tree
Stuart Lewis-Evans (UK)	October 19, 1958	Open Wheel	Vanwall VW57	1958 Formula One season	Ain-Diab Circuit	1958 Moroccan Grand Prix	Race	Crash
Scott Liebler (USA)	October 13, 1989	Open Wheel	Martini Mk.53-Volkswagen	Formula Atlantic	Road Atlanta	SCCA National Championship Runoffs	Race	Crash
Dick Linder (USA)	April 19, 1959	Open Wheel	Kurtis-Offenhauser	United States Auto Club National Championship	Trenton Speedway	Trenton 100-Mile Race	Race	Crash
Butch Lindley (USA)	April 13, 1985	Stock Car	Chevrolet Camaro	All Pro Super Series	DeSoto Speedway	Keene Brothers Trucking 125	Race	Crash
Peter Lindner (GER)	October 11, 1964	Sports car	Jaguar E-Type Lightweight	1964 World Sportscar Championship season	Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry	1000 km de Paris	Race	Collided with the Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero of Franco Patria in the pit lane on lap 83 of the race
John Lingenfelter (USA)	October 27, 2002	Dragster	Chevrolet Cavalier	NHRA Sports Compact	Pomona	Mazda NHRA Sport Compact World Finals	Race	Crash
Kevin Lloyd (ENG)	May 29, 2004	Touring car	Renault Clio	Renault Clio Cup	Thruxton Circuit	Renault Clio Cup, 9th Round	Race	Left the road and crashed into a tire wall
George Christian von Lobkowicz (CZE)	May 22, 1932	Open Wheel	Bugatti T54	Non-championship	AVUS	Internationales AVUS Rennen	Race	Car swerved, crossed the straight, cut through three trees and hit a railway wall
Frank Lockhart (USA)	April 25, 1928	Open Wheel	Stutz Blackhawk Special		Daytona Beach		Record Attempt	Equipment Failure
Mark Lovell (UK)	August 12, 2003	Rally car	Subaru WRX	Sports Car Club of America ProRally Championship	Oregon Trail SCCA ProRally	Oregon Trail SCCA ProRally	Rally Stage	Crash
Jean Lucienbonnet (ITA)	August 19, 1962	Open Wheel	Lotus 22	Italian Formula Junior Championship	Pergusa	XI Gran Premio Pergusa	Race	Crash
Tiny Lund (USA)	August 17, 1975	Stock Car	Dodge	1975 NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Talladega Superspeedway	1975 Talladega 500	Race	Crash
Stuart Lyndon (NZL)	June 2, 1985	Stock Car	Ford Thunderbird	Automobile Racing Club of America	Atlanta International Raceway		Race	Crash

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
David Ma (HK)	November 19, 1971	Open Wheel	Lotus 47	Non-championship	Guia Circuit	Guia Race of Macau	Qualifying	Crashed into a street lamp after losing control
Dave MacDonald (USA)	May 30, 1964	Open Wheel	Thompson 63-Ford	1964 USAC Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1964 Indianapolis 500	Race	Lost control of the car, hit the wall, exploded and was hit by the car of Eddie Sachs
Herbert MacKay-Fraser (USA)	July 14, 1957	Sports Car	Lotus Eleven	Formula Two Non-Championship	Reims-Gueux	Coupe Internationale de Vitesse	Race	Went off the road, rolled and he was thrown out
Doc Mackenzie (USA)	August 23, 1936	Sports Car	Crager	American Automobile Association	Milwaukee Mile	25 mile feature event	Race	Two wheels went into the dirt, causing the car to flip and land on the safety bank
Duncan Mackenzie (NZL)	April 15, 1961	Sports Car	Cooper T43	Formula Two	Levin Circuit	1961 April Levin Meeting	Race	Two wheels went into the dirt, causing the car to flip and land on the safety bank
Don MacTavish (USA)	February 22, 1969	Stock Car	Mercury Comet	NASCAR Sportsman Division	Daytona International Speedway	Sportsman 300	Race	Crashed into a wall, sheared the front end of the car off and was hit head on by another car
Marco Magaña (MEX)	May 30, 1993	Open Wheel		1993 Mexican Formula Three season	Autódromo Monterrey	Fórmula Dos championship	Race	Rock launched from another car went into his visor, ran off the track, hit an embankment, went airborne and hit a commentating box
Jorge Magnasco (ARG)	January 26, 1958	Sports Car	Maserati 300S	1958 World Sportscar Championship	Autódromo Municipal-Avenida Paz	1958 1000 km Buenos Aires	Race	Car overturned following an accident
Richard Mainwaring (GBR)	September 18, 1955	Sports car	Elva-Climax Mk.1	1955 World Sportscar Championship	Dundrod Circuit	RAC Tourist Trophy	Race	lose control of his car and crash off the track
Jim Malloy (USA)	May 14, 1972	Open Wheel	Eagle-Offenhauser	United States Auto Club National Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Practice	Lost control and crashed into the wall at 186 mph
Andrea Mamé (ITA)	June 30, 2013	Sports Car	Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4	2013 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Season	Paul Ricard Circuit	Blancpain Race Weekends au Circuit Paul Ricard	Race	Crashed into a wall near the pit lane
Jovy Marcelo (PHI)	May 15, 1992	Open Wheel	Lola T91/00-Cosworth	1992 IndyCar season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Indianapolis 500	Practice	Crashed into a wall backwards and hit his head on the cockpit
Pierre Maréchal (UK)	June 26, 1949	Sports Car	Aston Martin DB2		Circuit de la Sarthe	1949 24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Lost control of the car, hit an embankment and flipped
Onofre Marimón (ARG)	July 31, 1954	Open Wheel	Maserati 250F	1954 Formula One season	Nürburgring	1954 German Grand Prix	Practice	Careened down a hill
Matthew Marker (USA)	April 30, 2011	Rally car	Subaru Impreza WRX	Rally America	Olympus Rally	Olympus Rally	Rally Special Stage 6	Went off the road and hit a tree
Bobby Marshman (USA)	November 27, 1964	Open Wheel	Lotus-Ford	USAC Championship	Phoenix International Raceway		Testing	Suddenly turned into the wall and crashed head on
Eric Martin (USA)	October 9, 2002	Stock Car	Chevrolet	ARCA Re/Max Series	Lowe's Motor Speedway	EasyCare Vehicle Service Contracts 100	Practice	Hit by the car of Deborah Renshaw on the driver's side
Emilio Materassi (Italy)	September 9, 1928	Sports Car	Talbot 700		Monza	Gran Premio d'Italia e d'Europa	Race	Touched the rear wheel of another car, swerved to the left, jumped over a fence and went into the crowd
Takashi Matsunaga (JPN)	August 10, 1969	Sports Car	Honda R1300		Suzuka Circuit	12 Hours of Suzuka	Race	Crashed into a guardrail and burst into flames
Timmy Mayer (USA)	February 28, 1964	Open Wheel	Cooper T70-Climax	1964 Tasman Cup	Longford Circuit	South Pacific Trophy	Qualifying	Lost control of the car, landed crooked, launched into a group of trees and was thrown out
Jim Mayers (ENG)	September 18, 1955	Sports car	Cooper-Climax T39	1955 World Sportscar Championship	Dundrod Circuit	RAC Tourist Trophy	Race	hit a concrete pillar and the car immediately burst into a ball of flame. Mayers would have been killed instantly
Rex Mays (USA)	November 6, 1949	Open Wheel	Kurtis 2000 - Offenhauser	American Automobile Association National Championship	Del Mar	Del Mar 100-Mile Race	Race	Hit a rut, flipped, was thrown out and run over
Stewart McColl (AUS)	August 9, 2003	Touring Car	Volkswagen Golf	2003 Australian GT Performance Car Championship	Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit	Australian GT Performance Championship, Sixth round	Practice	Crashed into a wall
J. D. McDuffie (USA)	August 11, 1991	Stock Car	Pontiac	1991 NASCAR Winston Cup Series	Watkins Glen International	1991 Budweiser at The Glen	Race	Lost brakes and a wheel, crashed into a tire barrier at full speed, flipped and landed upside down
Jack McGrath (USA)	November 6, 1955	Open Wheel	Kurtis 4000-Offenhauser	American Automobile Association National Championship	Arizona State Fairgrounds	Bobby Ball Memorial Race	Race	Axle broke and car flipped
Bruce McLaren (NZL)	June 2, 1970	Sports Car	McLaren M8D-Chevrolet		Goodwood Circuit		Testing	The rear part of the bodywork failed, the car went onto the grass and crashed into a marshal's post
Bob McLean (CAN)	March 26, 1966	Sports Car	Ford GT40	1966 World Sportscar Championship season	Sebring International Raceway	12 Hours of Sebring	Race	Lost a wheel in a hairpin, rolled several times, crashed into a telephone pole and exploded
Eric Medlen (USA)	March 19, 2007	Dragster	Ford Mustang	NHRA POWERade Series	Gainesville Raceway		Testing	Tire went flat and came apart, causing the car to shake violently, which in turn caused his helmet to hit the roll cage
Russell Mendez (USA)	March 16, 1975	Rocket Dragster			Gainesville Raceway	Gatornationals	Exhibition Run	Crashed into guardrail and was thrown from the car after the chute was deployed without having time to inflate
Otto Merz (GER)	May 18, 1933	Sports Car	Mercedes-Benz SSKL		AVUS	1933 Avusrennen	Practice	Car aquaplaned, crashed against a cement milestone, rolled and was thrown out
Fausto Meyrat (SWI)	June 7, 1959	Sports Car	Auto Union RS1080	1959 World Sportscar Championship	Nürburgring	ADAC 1000 Kilometer Rennen	Race	Meyrat was being lapped by Stirling Moss, when both their cars lightly touched, Meyrat lost control of his car and crashed heavily, with fatal consequences.
Danny Milburn (USA)	February 3, 1991			USAC Silver Crown	Phoenix International Raceway	Copper World Classic	Race	Locked wheels with another driver and hit the wall at a flat angle, shattering the right side
Ken Miles (ENG)	August 17, 1966	Sports Car	Ford GT J	International Championship for Makes	Riverside International Raceway		Testing	Car went out of control, spun into the infield and went over an embankment, where he was thrown out
Chet Miller (USA)	May 15, 1953	Open Wheel	Kurtis FD-Novi	American Automobile Association National Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Practice	Car went into the dirt, Chet overcorrected and slammed into the wall
Kenny Minter (USA)	October 29, 1995	Modified			Caraway Speedway	Southern Modified Feature	Race	Crashed into a wall
Takeshi Mitsuno (JPN)	October 10, 1965	Sports Car		Kansai Sports Car Club	Suzuka Circuit
Gerhard Mitter (GER)	August 30, 1969		BMW-Dornier 269	1969 Formula Two	Nürburgring	1969 Großer Preis von Deutschland	Practice	Front suspension failure caused a wheel to fall off, which caused a crash
Laurenţiu Moldovan (ROM)	July 6, 2008	Touring car	Renault Clio	Campionatului Naţional de Viteză în Coastă	Reşiţa Rally	Campionatului Naţional de Viteză în Coastă de la Reşiţa	Race	Crashed into a tree
Guy Moll (ALG)	August 15, 1934	Open Wheel	Alfa Romeo Tipo B 2900	Formula Libre	Pescara Circuit	X Coppa Tito Acerbo	Race	Tried to overtake the car of Ernst Henne, lost control of the car, hit the parapet of a bridge, somersaulted and flung Guy out
Greg Moore (CAN)	October 31, 1999	Open Wheel	Reynard 99-Mercedes	1999 CART season	California Speedway	1999 Marlboro 500	Race	Jumped loose coming off of turn 2, became inverted, and crashed top first into concrete barrier
Tyler Morr (USA)	May 19, 2012	Mini Stock Car		Auburndale Kid's Club	Auburndale Speedway		Race	Crash
Roberto Mouras (ARG)	November 22, 1992	Stock Car	Chevrolet	Argentinean Turismo Carretera Championship	Lobos	3a Vuelta de Lobos - Premio Policia de la Provincia de Buenos Aires	Race	Crash
Paul Mulcahy (IRL)	June 30, 2013	Rally car	Toyota Starlet	Dunlop National Rally Championship	Carrick-on-Suir Ravens Rock Stages Rally	Carrick-on-Suir Ravens Rock Stages Rally 2013	Rally Stage	Crash
Herbert Müller (SUI)	May 24, 1981	Sports Car	Porsche 908/03-81 Turbo	1981 World Sportscar Championship	Nürburgring	1000 km von Nürburgring	Race	Crash
John Mulligan (USA)	September 1, 1969	Dragster	Chrysler	NHRA Top Fuel	Indianapolis Raceway Park	NHRA U.S. Nationals	Race	Crash
Eiki Muramatsu (JPN)	March 23, 1990		Mooncraft MC041B-Mugen	All-Japan Formula 3000 Championship	Fuji Speedway		Testing	Crash
Doc Murphy (USA)	April 14, 1956	Sports car	Jaguar XK120	SCCA	Marlboro Motor Raceway		Racing school	Left the road and rolled onto roof
Jimmy Murphy (USA)	September 15, 1924	Open Wheel	Miller	American Automobile Association National Championship	New York State Fairgrounds	Syracuse 150-Mile Race	Race	Crash
Luigi Musso (ITA)	July 6, 1958	Open Wheel	Ferrari Dino 246	1958 Formula One season	Reims	1958 French Grand Prix	Race	Tire Deflation
Bobby Myers (USA)	September 2, 1957	Stock Car	Oldsmobile	NASCAR Grand National Series	Darlington Raceway	1957 Southern 500	Race	Crash

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Lyle Nabbefeldt (USA)	May 26, 1973	Stock Car	Chevrolet Corvette		Wisconsin Dells Motor Speedway		Qualifying	Stuck throttle caused the car to crash into the wall
Kenichi Nagai (JPN)	May 3, 1966	Touring Car			Fuji Speedway			Gust of wind picked up the car and was thrown over the barriers
Michał Nahorski (POL)	July 22, 1959	Rally car	Triumph TR3A	European Rally Championship	Adriatic Rally		Race	Went off the road, went down a ravine, hit a tree roof first and caught fire
Osamu Nakajima (JPN)	October 21, 2012	Sports Car	Nissan Fairlady Z33	Super Taikyu GT Championship	Suzuka Circuit	Super Taikyu Suzuka	Race	Crashed into a barrier on the first turn
Masaharu Nakano (JPN)	November 23, 1973	Sports Car	Chevron B23	Grand Champion Series	Fuji Speedway	Fuji Victory 200 Kilometers	Race	Spun out, crossed the track, was hit by other cars and the car exploded
Théodore Namont (FRA)	May 25, 1930	Sports Car			Course de Côte à Fontainebleau		Hillclimb	Went off the road and somersaulted
Bill Nansen (USA)	August 13, 1970	Dragster			Island Dragway		Qualifying	Crashed into a ramp, flipped and hit a wall
Walter Narr (GER)	May 17, 1969				Harz	Harz-Bergpreis	Practice	Crashed
Mike Nazaruk (USA)	May 1, 1955	Sprint car	Nyquist-Offenhauser		Langhorne		Race	Veered into the wall, swerved, hit the wall again, went partway through it, rolled several times and caught fire: he was thrown out of the car
Biagio Nazzaro (ITA)	July 15, 1922		Fiat 804		Strasbourg	XVI Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France	Race	Threw a rear wheel, hit a tree and rolled several times
David Ndahura (UGA)	March 28, 1970	Rally car	Peugeot 404	International Championship for Manufacturers	Safari Rally	18th East African Safari Rally	Race	Drowning
Carrie Neal (USA)	July 25, 1997	Dragster		NHRA National Championship Drag Races	Sears Point	NHRA Autolite Nationals	Warm-Up	Throttle stuck
Harry Neale (AUS)	February 6, 1959	Midget			Claremont Speedway		Race	Crashed into another car, rolled several times, belt broke and was thrown out
Bill Neapolitan (USA)	August 28, 1932				Woodbridge Speedway		Race	Crash
Gérard Nectoute (FRA)	May 1982		March 742		Cagnotte	Course de Côte de Cagnotte	Race	Skidded, went off the road and crashed
Darren Needham (ENG)	August 8, 2004	Touring Car	Mini Cooper S	John Cooper Challenge	Silverstone		Race	Crashed into another car and into a barrier
George Neely (USA)	October 10, 1959	Stock Car			Mansfield Motorsports Speedway		Post-Race	Ran into the rear tire of another car, went up an embankment, the shoulder straps broke and caused him to hit his helmet on the rollcage
Bruno Nefe (GER)	September 15, 1978	Touring Car	Trabant 601	East Germany Touring Car Championship	Frohburger-Dreieck	DDR Tourenwagen Meisterschaft	Race	Crashed and somersaulted
John Negley (USA)	October 24, 1953	Sports Car	Allard-Chrysler	Sports Car Club of America National	Turner Air Force Base	Strategic Air Power Trophy Race	Practice	Car rolled over
Jean-Louis Negro (FRA)	September 13, 1981				Gourdon Caussols	Course de Côte de Gourdon Caussols	Hillclimb	Struck by another car while in the parking lot
Gary Neice (USA)	May 4, 1991	Stock Car	Oldsmobile	1991 NASCAR Busch Series	South Boston Speedway	1991 Carquest 300	Race	Heart Attack
Edmont Nelson (USA)	May 12, 1957	Sports Car	Ferrari 335S	1957 World Sports Car Championship	Guidizzolo	Mille Miglia	Race	Alfonso de Portago’s front tyre exploded. He lost control of the car; hit a telephone pole, jumped over a brook, then the car bounced back on to the road, slid over the road, spinning, and ended up, wheels down, in a brook at the other side of the road. Besides de Portago, his navigator Nelson, ten spectators – among them five children – lost their lives
Norman Nelson (USA)	August 31, 1963				Hartford Speedway Park		Race	Rolled over
John Nemechek (USA)	March 16, 1997	Truck	Chevrolet	Craftsman Truck Series	Homestead		Race	Lost control and crashed into the wall
Kenny Nemire (USA)	July 6, 1957	Stock Car	Ford Convertible	ARCA Racing Series	Toledo Raceway Park		Race	Crashed into retaining wall, slid, rolled and was ejected
Nikolai Nenov (BUL)	May 8, 1993	Rally car	Nissan Sunny GTI-R	European Rally Championship	Rally Zlatni Piassatzi	24th International Rally Zlatni Piassatzi	Race	Crashed into a rock after going off a road and down an embankment
Guy Nève (BEL)	June 28, 1992	Sportscar	Porsche 911 Carrera	Belgian Procar	Chimay Street Circuit		Race	Clipped another car, slid, rolled several times and caught fire
Roger Newell (USA)	May 23, 1987			California Racing Association - Sprint Car	Ascot Park	Salute to the Indy 500	Race	Slid and crashed into a wall
Eddie Nicholson (USA)	June 9, 1946			International Motor Contest Association	Milwaukee Mile	Barney Oldfield Race	Race	Crashed through a fence and overturned
Gilfert Nielson (USA)	April 9, 1969	Dragster			Orange County International Raceway		Race	Thrown out of the car
Joop van Nieuwenhuijzen (NED)	January 18, 1960	Rally car	Alfa Romeo Giulietta TI	European Rally Championship for Drivers	Rallye de Monte-Carlo	29ème Rallye de Monte-Carlo	Race	Crashed into a truck
Mark Niver (USA)	July 11, 2010	Dragster		National Hot Rod Association	Seattle International Raceway	Northwest Nationals	Post Race	Parachutes ripped off car and crashed into nets
Hob Noel (USA)	October 11, 1964	Stock Car			Eldora Speedway		Race	Hit wall, bounced back onto the track, ran over a wheel off a competitor and flipped over the track wall
Art Noll (USA)	July 10, 1932				Ho-Ho-Kus Speedway		Practice
Eric Nord (USA)	April 27, 1980	Kart			Talladega Super Speedway			Crash
Frank Norris (USA)	September 16, 1922	Sports Car			Arlington Park		Race	Crashed through a fence
Marcelo Núñez (MEX)	August 1, 2004	Stock Car	Pontiac Grand Prix	Desafío Corona	Autódromo Monterrey	Desafío Corona, 4ta. fecha	Race	Swerved to avoid hitting a wall, went into a gravel trap, went onto track again and was hit by another car
Jack Nunnally (USA)	January 15, 1926				Arizona State Fairgrounds		Practice	Crashed through a fence and overturned
Hank Nykaza (USA)	August 24, 1957	Midget Car		United States Auto Club National Midget Championship	Milwaukee Mile		Race	Rear wheels locked up, car skidded, jack-knifed, seat belt snapped and was thrown out

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Pat O'Connor (USA)	May 30, 1958	Open Wheel	Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser	1958 USAC Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1958 Indianapolis 500	Race	Hit the car of Jimmy Reece, flipped, skidded, hit a wall and caught fire
Eddie O'Donnell (USA)	November 25, 1920	Open Wheel	Duesenberg	American Automobile Association National Championship	Beverly Hills Speedway	Beverly Hills 200-Mile Race	Race	Crashed into the car of Gaston Chevrolet
Kieth O'dor (GBR)	September 10, 1995	Touring car	Nissan Primera	Super Tourenwagen Cup	AVUS	AVUS Rennen	Race	Equipment failure caused the car to hit a wall and spin: he was then hit by the car of Frank Biela on the driver's door
Hitoshi Ogawa (JPN)	May 24, 1992	Open Wheel	Mugen Honda	Japanese F3000	Suzuka Circuit	Million Card Cup Race Round 2	Race	Crashed into the car of Andrew Gilbert-Scott, flew into the gravel trap and hit a pole supporting a fence
Ken O'Neill (USA)	August 7, 1965	Sportscar	Merlyn-Climax	Sports Car Club of America	Candlestick Park	3rd annual Candlestick Park Road Races	Qualifying	Flipped over a guard rail
Charles Ogle (USA)	December 15, 1985	Stock Car	Pontiac Sunbird		Daytona International Speedway		Testing	Crash
Rance Olds (USA)	June 23, 1923	Open Wheel	Curtiss		Roby Speedway		Qualifying	Crash
Greg Olhava (USA)	October 14, 2000	Dragster		National Hot Rod Association	Indianapolis Raceway Park		Pre-race	Car suddenly accelerated, crashed and rolled over
Gigi Olivari (ITA)	April 14, 1957	Sports Car	Maserati A6		Giro di Sicilia	XVII Giro Automobilistico di Sicilia	Race	Skidded, crashed into a concrete wall and burst into flames
Senkichi Omura (JPN)	April 7, 1974	Open Wheel	F2000 Brabham		Suzuka Circuit		Testing	Crashed into a guard rail
Vladislav Ondřejík (CZE)	July 10, 1977	Touring Car	Škoda 130RS	East Germany Touring Car Championship	Sachsenring	Sachsenring Rennen	Race	Crashed into two other cars and into a concrete pole
Henri Oreiller (FRA)	October 21, 1962	Sports Car	Ferrari 250 GTO	World Sportscar Championship	Autodrome de Montlhéry	1000 km de Paris	Race	Crash
Jim O'Rourke (USA)	June 12, 1970	Stock Car		Modified Super Stock Car	Sportsman Park		Qualifying	Fire
Rodney Orr (USA)	February 14, 1994	Stock car	Ford Thunderbird	Winston Cup Series	Daytona International Speedway	1994 Daytona 500	Practice	Crash
Pete O'Shea (IRL)	August 13, 2011	Open Wheel	Swift Cooper SC-10 Ford	Formula Ford	Castle Combe Circuit	Castle Combe August Cup	Qualifying	Heart Attack

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Skip Pabis (USA)	May 23, 2005	Modified	Unknown	International Motor Contest Association	Afton Speedway	Unknown	Race	Rolled over
Jim Packard (USA)	October 1, 1960	Midget	Unknown	United States Auto Club National Midget Championship	Fairfield	Unknown	Qualifying	Steering broke, car flipped over a wall and hit a tree
Don Padia (USA)	September 16, 1951	Midget	Unknown	Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association	Englewood Speedway	Unknown	Race	Locked wheels with another driver and flipped into a parking lot
Jim Pagel (USA)	May 1, 1997	Stock car	Unknown	Unknown	Wisconsin International Raceway	US96/Goldstar Racing Supply Fox River Racing Club event	Qualifying	Spun out and hit a wall
Giancarlo Pagliuca (ITA)	May 18, 1997	Kart	Unknown	Kart	Sarno	Non-championship race	Race	Hit another competitor and rolled as the kart ran over him
Pierre Pagnibon (FRA)	June 7, 1953	Sportscar	Ferrari 340MM Touring Spyder #0268AM	Non-championship	Hyères	Les Douze Heures d'Hyères	Race	Lost control of car in the rain, crashed and was ejected
Riccardo Paletti (ITA)	June 13, 1982	Open Wheel	Osella FA1C-Cosworth	1982 Formula One season	Montreal	1982 Canadian Grand Prix	Race	Crashed into the stalled car of Didier Pironi and caught fire
Carlos Pardo (MEX)	June 14, 2009	Stock Car	Ford Fusion	2009 NASCAR Corona Series season	Puebla		Race	Hit by another car and slammed into a containment wall
Michael Park (ENG)	September 18, 2005	Rally car	Peugeot 307 WRC	2005 World Rally Championship season	Wales Rally		Race	Crashed into a tree
Neal Parker (USA)	June 11, 2010	Dragster		2010 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season	Old Bridge Township Raceway Park	2010 United Association NHRA SuperNationals		Parachute didn't deploy, went through a gravel trap, went through safety nets and hit water barrels
J.G. Parry-Thomas (WAL)	March 3, 1927	Land Speed Record	Babs		Pendine Sands			Car slid, flipped, landed on its wheels and caught fire
Franco Patria (ITA)	October 11, 1964	Sports car	Abarth-Simca 1300 Bialbero	1964 World Sportscar Championship season	Autodrome de Linas-Montlhéry	1000 km de Paris	Race	Hit by the Jaguar E-Type Lightweight of Peter Lindner in the pit lane on lap 83 of the race
Carlo Pedrazzini (SWI)	April 22, 1934	Open Wheel	Maserati 8CM		Circuito Pietro Bordino	Circuito di Alessandria Gran Premio Pietro Bordino	Race	Crashed into a parapet on a bridge, somersaulted, hit a wall and he was thrown out
Stan Perry (USA)	May 4, 2007	Stock Car			Spartan Speedway		Race	Crashed and had a heart attack
Ronnie Peterson (SWE)	September 10, 1978	Open Wheel	Lotus 78 - Cosworth	1978 Formula One season	Monza	1978 Italian Grand Prix	Race	Hit by the car of James Hunt, spun into a wall and caught fire: died of a fat embolism the next day
Adam Petty (USA)	May 12, 2000	Stock Car	Chevrolet Monte Carlo	2000 NASCAR Busch Series	New Hampshire International Speedway	Sta-Green 200	Practice	Stuck throttle caused the car to crash into the turn 3 wall
Russell Phillips (USA)	October 6, 1995	Stock Car	Oldsmobile	NASCAR Limited Sportsman Division	Lowe's Motor Speedway	Winston 100 NASCAR Sportsman Series	Race	Was hit by another car and launched roof first into the wall, while trying to avoid a spinning car. The roof and roll cage were sheared away exposing Phillps' body to the fence and a caution light. This has been deemed the most gruesome crash in NASCAR history.
Wanda Phillips (USA)	June 30, 2007	Stock Car			Lonesome Pine International Raceway		Race	Crash
Wolfgang Piwco (GER)	April 29, 1956	Touring Car	Mercedes-Benz 300 SL	1956 World Sportscar Championship	Montemarciano	Mille Miglia	Race	car hit a wall, killing him instantly
Carlos Polanco (CHI)	November 25, 1990	Touring Car	Nissan Sunny	Monomarca Nissan Sunny (Chile)	Roca Roja		Race	Crash
Art Pollard (USA)	May 12, 1973	Open Wheel	Eagle-Offenhauser	1973 USAC Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	International Motor Speedway	Practice	Crash
Mark Porter (NZL)	October 6, 2006	Touring Car	Holden Commodore	V8 Supercar Championships	Mount Panorama Circuit	Bathurst 1000	Race	Crash
Andre Pouschol (France)	May 2, 1954	Touring Car	Citroën 15 Six	1954 World Sportscar Championship	Vigenza	Mille Miglia	Race	Crashed into signpoint, killing both himself and his navigator, F. Saisse
Donald Pratt (USA)	September 17, 1989	Stock Car	Chevrolet Cavalier	NASCAR Modified	Pocono Raceway	Sunoco Race of Champions 250	Race	Crash
Talmadge Prince (USA)	February 19, 1970	Stock Car	Dodge Daytona	NASCAR Grand National Series	Daytona International Speedway	Twin 125	Race	Crash
Tom Pryce (WAL)	March 5, 1977	Open Wheel	Shadow DN8	1977 Formula One season	Kyalami	1977 South African Grand Prix	Race	Hit in the head by a fire extinguisher

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Willy Quevedo (ARG)	March 2, 2007	Dragster	De Carlo	Unknown	Luján de Cuyo	Las Picadas de Lujan de Cuyo	Exhibition	Engine exploded and debris hit him
Jimmy Quick (USA)	July 16, 1965				Devil's Bowl Speedway		Race	Crushed inside car after crash
Gene Quillin (USA)	June 8, 1947	Stock Car		Ohio Speedway Association	Ravenna Fairgrounds		Race	Crashed through a guard rail and impaled on it
Del Quinn (USA)	April 28, 2001	Stock car		Northern California Modifieds Association	Kings Speedway		Post-race	Heart attack
Joe Quinn (USA)	July 14, 1948	Stock car			Owosso Speedway		Race	Hit by a car after crash
Joe Quinn (IRE)	August 28, 1954	Sports Car	Quinn Special V8	Formula Libre	The Curragh	Wakefield Trophy and O'Boyle Trophy Handicap	Race	Crashed into spectator enclosure and rope wrapped around his neck
Kenny Quinn (USA)	October 18, 1924				Clearfield Driving Park		Race	Crashed through a fence
Manuel Quintana (CUB)	March 21, 1980	Sports Car	Porsche 911	World Challenge for Endurance Drivers	Sebring International Raceway	28th Annual Coca-Cola 12 Hours of Sebring International Grand Prix of Endurance	Qualifying	Crashed and somersaulted
Esteban Quispitupa (PER)	October 10, 1999	Rally car	Toyota	Peruvian National Rally Championship	Caminos del Inca	XXIX Gran Premio Nacional de Carretreras "Caminos del Inca"	Rally Stage	Crashed against a rock to avoid crashing into the sea

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Eddie Raasch (USA)	June 22, 1930			International Motor Contest Association	Milwaukee Mile		Race	Crashed into two stalled cars and was ejected
Leslie Rabik (USA)	July 4, 1940	Stock car	Jalopy	Unknown	Hawkeye Downs Speedway	Jalopy race	Race	Blinded by dust, car lost control and crashed through a fence: A jagged piece of fence severed his jugular vein
Ian Raby (ENG)	July 30, 1967	Open Wheel	Brabham BT14-Ford Lotus LF	1967 European Formula Two season	Circuit Park Zandvoort	Grote Prijs van Zandvoort	Race	Crash
Paul Rademacher (USA)	July 4, 1969	Midget	Unknown	United Auto Racing Association	Waukegan Speedway	Unknown	Race	Smashed against a concrete wall, flipped and skidded on the track for 50 feet
Barry Radford (AUS)	November 13, 2004	Stock car	Holden Commodore	Sprintcar Association of Tasmania Nu-Tech Systems Sprintcar Series - Super Sedan class	Cranes Combined Carrick Speedway	Super Sedans, first round, second heat race	Race	Clipped by another car and slammed head-on into the pit lane wall
Boris Radichkov (BUL)	July 8, 1977	Touring car	VAZ-2101	European Rally Championship	Rajd Polski	1977 Rajd Polski	Rally stage	Left the road, fell into a ravine and hit a tree with the driver-side door
Hans Rager (MAR)	October 19, 1958	Sports car	Triumph	Non-championship	Ain-Diab Circuit	2 Heures de Casablanca	Race	Car skidded and turned over
Roland Ratzenberger (AUT)	April 30, 1994	Open Wheel	Simtek S941-Ford	1994 Formula One season	Imola	1994 San Marino Grand Prix	Qualifying	Crashed into the wall head on due to a front wing failure
Tracy Read (USA)	July 25, 1987	Stock Car	Chevrolet	Automobile Racing Club of America	Alabama International Motor Speedway	ARCA Permatex 500	Race	Crashed into another car and hit an earthen embankment
Jimmy Reece (USA)	September 28, 1958	Open Wheel	Kurtis 500G-Offenhauser	1958 USAC Championship Car season	Trenton Speedway	Trenton 100	Race	Touched a dirt part of the track, went up the track, hit a fence and was thrown out
Lionel Régal (FRA)	August 15, 2010	Open Wheel	Reynard 01L-Mugen Honda	European Hill Climb Championship	Saint-Ursanne - Les Rangiers	67ème Course de Côte Internationale Saint-Ursanne - Les Rangiers	Hillclimb	Slid and crashed into a tree
Klaus Reisch (AUT)	September 12, 1971	Sports car	Alfa Romeo Tipo 33	Interserie	Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari	6 Hours of Imola	Race	Spun, crashed backwards into the wall, burst into flames and was thrown out
Marcel Renault (FRA)	May 24, 1903	Sports Car	Renault		Paris-Madrid	Paris-Madrid - VIII Grand Prix de l'Automobile Club de France	Marathon Race	Wheel got stuck in a rut and crashed into a tree
Tony Renna (USA)	October 22, 2003	Open Wheel	G-Force-Toyota	Indy Racing League	Indianapolis Motor Speedway		Testing	Spun, went airborne into the catch fence and disintegrated
Dario Resta (ITA)	September 2, 1924	Sports Car	Sunbeam		Brooklands		Record Attempt	Tire puncture caused the car to go backwards through a fence and catch fire
Peter Revson (USA)	March 22, 1974	Open Wheel	Shadow DN3 Ford-Cosworth	1974 Formula One season	Kyalami	1974 South African Grand Prix	Testing	Lost control, slid, crashed into the barriers and caught fire
Gene Richards (USA)	July 31, 1982	Stock Car	Chevrolet Monte Carlo	Automobile Racing Club of America	Alabama International Speedway	Talladega 200	Race	Crashed into inside wall, went across track and hit other wall
Red Riegel (USA)	June 11, 1966	Sprint Car		USAC Sprint Division	Reading Fairgrounds		Race	Crashed into the car of Jud Larson and both cars flipped over a wall
Jochen Rindt (GER)	September 5, 1970	Open Wheel	Lotus 72C Ford-Cosworth DFV	1970 Formula One season	Monza	1970 Italian Grand Prix	Qualifying	Right front brakeshaft broke apart, causing the car to veer left and hit the guardrail: the nose went under the guardrail and he was pulled into the cockpit
Fireball Roberts (USA)	May 24, 1964	Stock Car	Ford Galaxie	1964 NASCAR Grand National Series	Charlotte Motor Speedway	World 600	Race	Hit the wall trying to avoid another wreck from Junior Johnson and Ned Jarrett, rolled over and burst into flames; died 39 days later
Floyd Roberts (USA)	May 30, 1939	Open Wheel	Wetteroth-Offenhauser	American Automobile Association National Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Race	Crash
Johnny Roberts (USA)	July 24, 1965	Stock Car	Ford		Lincoln Speedway		Race	Crash
Ford Robinson (USA)	November 23, 1954	Sports car	Ferrari 375 Plus Pinin Farina	1954 World Sportscar Championship	Carrera Panamericana	Carrera Panamericana	Race	Accident
James Robinson (USA)	February 7, 1988	Stock Car	Pontiac Trans Am		Phoenix International Raceway	1988 Skoal Bandit Copper World Classic	Race	Pneumonia
George Robson (ENG)	September 2, 1946	Open Wheel	Wetteroth-Offenhauser	American Automobile Association National Championship	Lakewood Speedway	Atlanta 100-Mile National Championship Auto Race	Race	Crash
Chuck Rodee (USA)	May 14, 1966	Open Wheel	Watson-Ford	United States Auto Club	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1966 International 500 Mile Sweepstakes	Qualifying	Crash
Gonzalo Rodríguez (URU)	September 11, 1999	Open Wheel	Lola B99/00	1999 CART season	Laguna Seca	Honda Grand Prix of Monterey	Qualifying	Crash
Pedro Rodríguez (MEX)	July 11, 1971	Sportcar	Ferrari 512M Berlinetta	Interserie	Norisring	200 Meilen von Nürnberg	Race	Crash
Ricardo Rodríguez (MEX)	November 1, 1962	Open Wheel	Lotus 24-Climax	1962 Formula One season	Magdalena Mixchuca	1962 Mexican Grand Prix	Practice	Crash
Tony Roper (USA)	October 13, 2000	Stock Pick-up Truck	Ford Truck	2000 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series	Texas Motor Speedway	O'Reilly 400	Race	Crash
Bernd Rosemeyer (GER)	January 28, 1938		Auto Union		Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn		Record Attempt	Crash
Louis Rosier (FRA)	October 7, 1956	Sports Car	Ferrari 750 Monza	Sportscar, non-championship	Linas-Montlhéry	Coupe du Salon de l'Auto de Paris	Race	Crash
Darrell Russell (USA)	June 27, 2004	Dragster		NHRA Top Fuel	Gateway International Raceway	Sears Craftsman Nationals	Race	Mechanical Failure
Peter Ryan (USA)	July 1, 1962	Open Wheel	Lotus 22-Ford	Formula Junior	Reims	Coupe Internationale de Vitesse des Juniors	Race	Crash

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Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Eddie Sachs (USA)	May 30, 1964	Open Wheel	Halibrand-Ford	1964 USAC Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1964 Indianapolis 500	Race	Crashed into the flaming car of Dave MacDonald and caught fire
Rolandas Šaduikis (LTU)	October 20, 2007	Touring car	Honda Civic		Ralis Kauno Ruduo	Ralis Mega – Kauno Ruduo 2007	Race	Crash
F. Saisse (FRA)	May 2, 1954	Touring Car	Citroën 15 Six	1954 World Sportscar Championship	Vigenza	Mille Miglia	Race	Car driven by Andre Pouschol, crashed into signpoint, killing both the driver and his navigator, F. Saisse
Sergio Santander (CHI)	September 26, 1987	Open Wheel	Juan Larroquette JL-04 - Renault	1987 Chilean Formula 3 Championship	Las Vizcachas	Round 8 of the 1987 Chilean Formula 3 Championship	Race	Crashed into another car, both veered off the track and hit the inside pit wall
Swede Savage (USA)	May 30, 1973	Open Wheel	Eagle-Offenhauser	1973 USAC National Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1973 Indianapolis 500	Race	Car veered off of track, hit wall and caught fire: died in hospital 33 days later from kidney infection
Ludovico Scarfiotti (ITA)	June 8, 1968	Hill Climb	Porsche 910/68 Bergspyder	European Hillclimb Championship	Roßfeld-Höhenring-Straße	Internationaler Alpen-Bergpreis Berchtesgaden	Race	Went off road, fell into a ravine, crashed into trees and was thrown out
Harry Schell (USA)	May 13, 1960	Open Wheel	Cooper-Climax	Non-championship Formula One	Silverstone	1960 BRDC International Trophy	Practice	Car got sideways in the mud, flipped over, slid through a safety barrier and hit a wall of breeze blocks, which fell on the car
Bill Schindler (USA)	September 20, 1952	Open Wheel		AAA Eastern Championship	Allentown Fairgrounds		Race	Hit a loose wheel from another car, crashed through a fence, went down an embankment and crashed into a ticket booth
Jo Schlesser (FRA)	July 7, 1968	Open Wheel	Honda RA302	1968 Formula One season	Rouen-Les-Essarts	1968 French Grand Prix	Race	Lost control of the car, slammed into an embankment, flipped and burst into flames
Terry Schoonover (USA)	November 11, 1984	Stock Car	Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS	NASCAR Grand National Series	Atlanta International Raceway	Atlanta Journal 500	Race	Crashed into a dirt bank
Harlan Schwartz (USA)	May 8, 2004	Touring car	Alfa Romeo 8C 2300	Unknown	Mille Miglia	XXII Mille Miglia Storica	Rally	Tried to overtake a car, both cars were hit by a car coming the opposite direction; the Alfa rolled, hit a tree and went into a ravine
Giuseppe Scotuzzi (ITA)	November 19, 1953	Sports car	Ferrari 375 MM Pininfarina Berlinetta	1953 World Sportscar Championship season	Tehuantepec, Mexico	Carrera Panamericana	Race	Tire burst causing the car to leave the road at about 240 kph, which he was the navigator
Archie Scott Brown (GBR)	May 19, 1958	Sports Car	Lister-Jaguar	sportscar, non-championship	Spa-Francorchamps	Grand Prix de l'Automobilclub de Francorchamps	Race	Crash
Richard Seaman (GBR)	June 25, 1939	Open Wheel	Mercedes-Benz W154	1939 AIACR European Championship	Spa-Francorchamps	1939 Belgian Grand Prix	Race	Went off the road, crashed into a tree and caught fire
Tsutomu Seki (JPN)	October 27, 2013	Touring car	Nissan Sunny	Japan Classic Car Association	Tsukuba Circuit	JCCA Classic Car Festival - TS Cup class race	Race	Went out of control and crashed into the barrier at the last corner
Ayrton Senna (BRA)	May 1, 1994	Open Wheel	Williams FW16-Renault	1994 Formula One season	Imola	1994 San Marino Grand Prix	Race	Struck by debris after crash
Jim Shampine (USA)	September 4, 1982	Stock car	Chevrolet Cavalier	NASCAR Modified	Oswego Speedway	Oswego Modified 200	Race	Crash - Turn 2 - Struck in driver's door by Ron Shepherd
Neil Shanahan (IRE)	May 31, 1999	Open Wheel	Van Diemen RF99/Solus-Ford	British Formula Ford Championship	Oulton Park	Round 5 of the 1999 British Formula Ford Zetec Championship	Race	Crash
Lee Shepherd (USA)	March 11, 1985	Dragster	Chevrolet Camaro	NHRA Pro Stock	Ardmore Raceway		Race	Crash
Jo Siffert (SWI)	October 24, 1971	Open Wheel	BRM P160	Formula One, non-championship	Brands Hatch	1971 World Championship Victory Race	Race	Crash
Wolf Silvester (GER)	June 22, 2013	Touring Car	Opel Astra OPC	Veranstaltergemeinschaft Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring	Nürburgring	44th Adenauer ADAC Trophy	Race	Heart attack
Allan Simonsen (DEN)	June 22, 2013	Sports Car	Aston Martin Vantage GTE	FIA World Endurance Championship	Circuit de la Sarthe	2013 24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Crash
Buren Skeen (USA)	September 13, 1965	Stock Car	Ford	NASCAR Grand National Series	Darlington Raceway	Southern 500	Race	Crash
Jiří Skoupil (CZE)	April 8, 2011	Touring car	Citroën C2 S1600	Czech Rally Championship	Mogul Rallye Šumava Klatovy	46. Mogul Rallye Šumava Klatovy 2011	Rally	Crashed into a tree after losing control
Gordon Smiley (USA)	May 15, 1982	Open Wheel	March 82C-Cosworth	USAC Gold Crown Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1982 Indianapolis 500	Qualifying	Crash
Larry Smith (USA)	August 12, 1973	Stock Car	Mercury	NASCAR Grand National Series	Talladega Super Speedway	Talladega 500	Race	Crash
William Smith (GBR)	September 18, 1955	Sports car	Connaught AL/SR	1955 World Sportscar Championship	Dundrod Circuit	RAC Tourist Trophy	Race	lose control of his car, following another accident and hit Jim Mayers
William Snell (USA)	August 19, 1956	Sports Car	Triumph TR3	Sports Car Club of America	Arcata Airport		Race	Crash
Moisés Solana (MEX)	July 27, 1969	Hill Climb	McLaren M6B-Chevrolet	non-championship hillclimb	Valle de Bravo-Bosencheve		Race	Crash
Raymond Sommer (FRA)	September 10, 1950	Open Wheel	Cooper Mark IV	non-championship Formula 3	Cadours	Grand Prix de l'Haute Garonne	Race	Crash
Gustavo Sondermann (BRA)	April 3, 2011	Pick-up Truck	Chevrolet Montana	Chevrolet Montana Cup	Autódromo José Carlos Pace		Race	Crash
Lester Spangler (USA)	March 30, 1933	Open Wheel	Miller	AAA National Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1933 Indianapolis 500	Race	Crash
Mike Spence (GBR)	May 7, 1968	Open Wheel	Lotus 56-Pratt & Whitney	USAC National Championship	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1968 Indianapolis 500	Practice	Crash
Rafael Sperafico (BRA)	December 9, 2007	Stock Car	Chevrolet Astra	Brazilian Light Stock Cars Championship	Autódromo José Carlos Pace		Practice	Crash
Alan Stacey (GBR)	June 19, 1960	Open Wheel	Lotus 18-Climax	1960 Formula One season	Spa-Francorchamps	1960 Belgian Grand Prix	Race	Crash
Antonio Stagnoli (ITA)	November 19, 1953	Sports car	Ferrari 375 MM Pininfarina Berlinetta	1953 World Sportscar Championship season	Tehuantepec, Mexico	Carrera Panamericana	Race	tyre burst causing the car to leave the road at about 240 kph.
Robbie Stanley (USA)	May 26, 1994	Sprint Car	Hoffman	USAC Sprint Car Championship	Winchester Speedway		Race	Crash
Bernd Stelzig (GER)	April 28, 1968	Sports car	Porsche 911	Deutsche Automobil Rundstrecken Meisterschaft	Norisring	Norisringrennen	Race	Lost control of the car and hit a steel bridge pillar
Mike Stevens (CAN)	August 3, 2013	Stock Car	Chevrolet Impala SS	Parts For Trucks Pro Stock Tour	Oyster Bed Speedway	Exit Realty PEI 100	Race	Car fliped; Stevens unbuckled his head and neck restraints while upside-down and landed on his head
Max Stewart (AUS)	March 19, 1977	Open Wheel	Lola T400-Chevrolet	Rothmans International Series	Calder Park Raceway	Calder F5000 race	Qualifying	Crash
Tom Stewart (USA)	July 5, 1980	Open Wheel	March 80A-Ford Cosworth	SCCA-CASC Formula Atlantic Championship	Lime Rock Park		Warm-up	Crash
Rolf Stommelen (GER)	August 24, 1983	Sports Car	Porsche 935 replica	International Motor Sports Association	Riverside International Raceway	Los Angeles Times Grand Prix	Race	Crash
Gerhard Süß (GER)	July 5, 1997	Touring car	Opel Kadett C		ADAC-Grabfeldrallye	4. Nationalen ADAC-Grabfeldrallye 1997	Race	Left the road, crashed into a tree and fell into a ravine
Henry Surtees (GBR)	July 19, 2009	Open Wheel	Williams JPH1-Audi	FIA Formula Two Championship	Brands Hatch	Round 7 & 8 of the FIA Formula Two Championship	Race	Hit in the head by an untethered wheel causing severe head injuries
Karel Švec (CZE)	May 30, 2009	Touring car	Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX	Czech Rally Open Cup	Rallye Posázaví	XII Rallye Posázaví	Race	Went off the road and crashed into a tree
Bob Sweikert (USA)	June 17, 1956	Sprint Car	Kuzma-Offenhauser	USAC Sprint Car Championship	Salem Speedway		Race	Crash

T

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Giovanni Tabacchi (ITA)	June 5, 1931	Sports Car	Bugatti T35C	Unknown	Rome Urbe Airport	VII Gran Premio Reale di Roma	Practice	Lost control, went over a small wall and rolled down a hill
Shingo Tachi (JPN)	March 11, 1999	Sports Car	Toyota Supra GT500	All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship	TI Circuit		Testing	Technical failure caused the car to crash into a tire wall
Eldridge Tadlock (USA)	May 11, 1941	Stock Car	Unknown	Unknown	High Point Motor Speedway	Unknown	Qualifying	Right rear wheel came off, causing car to flip several times and he was pinned beneath it
Toru Takahashi (JPN)	October 23, 1983	Sports Car	MCS 4 - BMW	Fuji Grand Champion Series	Fuji Speedway	Fuji Masters 250 Kilometres	Race	Spun out, flipped into the air and crashed into the wall roof first
Dennis Taylor (ENG)	June 2, 1962	Open Wheel	Lola Mk5 - Ford	Formula Junior (non-championship)	Circuit de Monaco	IV Grand Prix de Monaco Junior	Race	Skidded, crashed into a tree and bounced off a barrier coming out of the tunnel
John Taylor (ENG)	August 7, 1966	Open Wheel	Brabham BT11 - BRM	1966 Formula One season	Nürburgring	1966 German Grand Prix	Race	Ran into the back of Jacky Ickx's car, crashed and caught fire
Marshall Teague (USA)	February 11, 1959	Open Wheel	Kurtis-Kraft KK500D "Sumar Streamliner Special"		Daytona Speedway		Testing	Crashed into wall, flipped and he was thrown out still attached to the seat
Ain Teppo (EST)	September 28, 2007	Touring car	Lada Riva		Mulgi Ralli	Mulgi Ralli	Race	Crashed into a stack of wood
Tommy Thompson	September 23, 1978	Open wheel	Lola T324	USAC Mini-Indy Series	Trenton International Speedway		Race	Crashed into a wall with John Barringer. Thompson succumbed to his injuries on 28 September 1978, Barringer made a full recovery.
Jerry Titus (USA)	August 8, 1970	Sports Car	Pontiac Firebird	Trans Am Series	Road America		Practice	Mechanical failure caused crash
Henri Toivonen (FIN)	May 2, 1986	Rally car	Lancia Delta S4	World Rally Championship	Tour de Corse	Tour de Corse	Race	Plunged down ravine after hitting small wall, crashed into a tree and caught fire
Warren Tope (USA)	July 5, 1975	Sports Car	McLaren M8E		Pontiac, Michigan street course	Wide Track II	Race	Rear halfshaft broke, cutting the rear brake line, which caused the car to go under an Armco barrier
Lars-Erik Torph (SWE)	January 23, 1989	Rally car	Lancia Delta Integrale	World Rally Championship		Monte Carlo Rally	Race	Spectating when the Lancia Delta Integrale of Alessandro Fiorio-Luigi Pirollo went off the road, overturned and killed him and his co-driver

U

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Josu Ugarte (SPA)	October 8, 2006	Hillclimb	Reynard F.3000	Campeonato Vasco de Montaña [Basque Hillclimb Championship]	Urraki	XXIV Subida a Urraki	Race	Crashed backwards into a tree
Pierre Ugnon (FRA)	April 26, 1953	Sports Car	Jaguar C-Type	World Sports Car Championship	Mille Miglia	XX Mille Miglia	Race	Car rolled in a field and was thrown out
Václav Uher (CZE)	September 24, 1949	Open Wheel	Maserati 6CM	Formula 1, non-championship	Brno	Velká Cena Československa	Practice	Crash
Tojiro Ukiya (JPN)	August 20, 1965	Sports Car	Dome Karasu		Suzuka		Testing	Crashed into a lamppost and thrown from car
Jerry Unser, Jr. (USA)	May 17, 1959	Open Wheel	Kurtis Kraft	1959 USAC Championship Car season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1959 Indianapolis 500	Practice	Crashed in Turn 4 and died of injuries and burns
Íñigo Uría (ESP)	March 17, 2001	Touring car	Renault Megane	Basque Rallysprint Championship	Rallysprint Ikasberri	II Rallysprint Ikasberri	Race	Broken neck in a minor crash
Sherwin Utphall (USA)	June 14, 1965				Eau Claire Raceway		Post-Race	Heart Attack

V

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Miloš Vágner (CZE)	November 9, 2014	Touring car	Škoda Fabia S2000	Czech Rally Championship	Rally Krkonoše	2014 Rally Krkonoše	Rally stage	Went out of control and hit the wall of a house
Germán Vagni (ARG)	August 29, 1954		Oldsmobile	Mecánica Nacional Fuerza Libre	Las Rosas (Circuito de Tres Lagunas)	XI Premio Las Rosas de Santa Fe - Copa Vito J. Requena	Race	Went off the track and overturned
Ants Vaino (RUS)	May 30, 1971	Open wheel	Estonia (race car) 15M	USSR Championship	Borovaya	USSR Championship, round 1	Race	Crash
Roy Valentine (USA)	June 25, 1950	Sprint car	Unknown	Mississippi Valley Automobile Racing Association Big Car Championship	Mendota Fairgrounds	Unknown	Race	Lost control in a curve, hit another car, went over a fence and crashed into a tree
Achille Varzi (ITA)	July 1, 1948	Open Wheel	Alfa Romeo 158	1948 Grand Prix season	Bremgarten	1948 Swiss Grand Prix	Practice	Lost control, hit a barrier and flipped
César Vera-Abad (PER)	July 17, 2005	Stock car	BMW M3	Peruvian National Championship	Lima (Paseo de Los Héroes Navales)	I Copa Alcalde de Lima	Race	Lost control of the car and crashed into a wall
Mathieu Vidal (FRA)	September 18, 2000	Open Wheel	Coloni CN1	2000 Open Telefonica by Nissan season	Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya		Pre-season test	Crashed into the barriers
Gilles Villeneuve (CAN)	May 8, 1982	Open Wheel	Ferrari 126 C2	1982 Formula One season	Zolder	1982 Belgian Grand Prix	Qualifying	Crashed into the car of Jochen Mass, barrel-rolled and was thrown out
Martin Vodehnal (CZE)	October 27, 2006	Touring car	Audi Quattro	Non-championship	Rally Střela	Rally Střela	Race	Crashed into a fence
Rich Vogler (USA)	July 21, 1990	Sprint Car			Salem Speedway	ESPN Thunder	Race	Hit another car and crashed into a fence
Wolfgang Von Trips (GER)	September 10, 1961	Open Wheel	Ferrari 156	1961 Formula One season	Monza	1961 Italian Grand Prix	Race	Car went sideways, went up a hill, flipped and he was thrown out
Bill Vukovich (USA)	May 30, 1955	Open Wheel	Kurtis Kraft	1955 Formula One season	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	1955 Indianapolis 500	Race	Hit by the car of Johnny Boyd, went over the back wall and hit a civilian car
Bill Vukovich III (USA)	November 25, 1990	Sprint Car			Mesa Marin Raceway		Practice	Crashed into a wall

W

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Billy Wade (USA)	January 5, 1965	Stock Car	Mercury	1965 Grand National Series	Daytona International Speedway		Testing	Blown tire caused the car to crash: the seat launched the driver into the steering wheel, killing him
Honoré Wagner (LUX)	May 23, 1965	Sports car	Alfa Romeo Giulia TZ	1965 World Sportscar Championship season	Nürburgring	1000 km Nürburgring	Race	Went off the road and went into a ravine
Kevin Ward, Jr. (USA)	August 9, 2014	Sprint Car		Empire Super Sprint Series race	Canandaigua Motorsports Park	2014 race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park	Race	Hit by Tony Stewart while intentionally standing on track
Paul Warwick (UK)	July 21, 1991	Open Wheel	Reynard 90D	1991 British Formula 3000 season	Oulton Park	Gold Cup	Race	Steering locked, crashed into the barriers and was thrown out
Akira Watanabe (JPN)	October 10, 1968			Fuji Series - Champions class	Fuji Speedway
Don Watson (AUS)	September 30, 1994	Touring Car	Holden Commodore VP	CAMS Group 3A	Mount Panorama Circuit	1994 Tooheys 1000	Practice	Crash
Joe Weatherly (USA)	January 19, 1964	Stock Car	Mercury	NASCAR Grand National Series	Riverside International Raceway	Motor Trend 500	Race	Crash
Col Wenzel (AUS)	February 25, 2013	Touring car	Alfa Romeo Alfetta GTV	Alfa Romeo Owners Club of Australia Italian Challenge Race Series	Lakeside International Raceway	Top Gear Classic Race Meeting	Race	Throttle stuck which caused the car to go off the track and crashed into an embankment
Barry Westmoreland (GBR)	April 13, 2008	Open wheel	Lotus 20	Historic Sports Car Club	Cadwell Park		Race	Heart attack
Dan Wheldon (UK)	October 16, 2011	Open Wheel	Dallara IR-05	2011 IndyCar Series season	Las Vegas Motor Speedway	IZOD IndyCar World Championship	Race	Involved in a 15 car crash on the 11th lap of the final race of the season. Wheldon's car was launched into the air and impacted the catch fencing cockpit first, causing fatal head injuries. The race was abandoned after news of Wheldon's death was announced.
Nolan White (USA)	October 17, 2002				Bonneville Salt Flats		Land Speed Record	Equipment Failure
Peter Whitehead (GBR)	September 21, 1958	Saloon Car	Jaguar 3.4 Litre	Non-championship race	Tour de France	1958 Tour de France	Race	Crashed off a bridge into a 30-foot ravine at Lasalle, near Nîmes after overturning twice, with his half-brother Graham Whitehead at the wheel. Graham escaped with serious but not life-threatening injuries, but Peter was killed instantly.
Howdy Wilcox (USA)	September 4, 1923	Open Wheel	Duesenberg	American Automobile Association National Championship	Altoona Speedway	Altoona 200 Mile Race	Race	Crash
Bob Wilder (USA)	May 22, 1953	Sports Cars	Allard J2X Le Mans	SCCA National Sports Car Championship	Bridgehampton	Bridgehampton Sports Car Races	Qualifying	Crash
Don Williams (USA)	February 17, 1979	Stock Car	Chevrolet Chevelle	NASCAR Late Model Sportsman	Daytona International Speedway	Sportsman 300	Race	Crash
Roger Williamson (UK)	August 29, 1973	Open Wheel	March 731 - Ford	Formula One	Circuit Park Zandvoort	1973 Dutch Grand Prix	Race	Asphyxiation from fire and smoke from crash
Tim Williamson (USA)	January 12, 1980	Stock Car	Chevrolet Camaro	NASCAR Grand American	Riverside International Raceway	NASCAR Stock Car Products 300	Race	Crash
Justin Wilson (UK)	August 24, 2015	Open Wheel	Dallara DW12	2015 IndyCar Series season	Pocono Raceway	ABC Supply 500	Race	Struck in the head by debris from the crashed car of Sage Karam
Jean-Pierre Wimille (FRA)	January 28, 1949	Open Wheel	Simca-Gordini 10GCT15		Palermo	Gren Permio General Perón	Practice	Crash
Manfred Winkelhock (GER)	August 11, 1985	Sports Car	Porsche 962C	1985 World Sportscar Championship season	Mosport International Raceway	Budweiser GT 1000km	Race	Crash
Tyler Wolf (USA)	October 27, 2012	Sprint Car			Calistoga Speedway	75th Anniversary Race	Race	Crash
John Wolfe (UK)	June 14, 1969	Sports Car	Porsche 917	1969 World Sportscar Championship season	1969 24 Hours of Le Mans	24 Hours of Le Mans	Race	Crash
Mike Wright (USA)	July 7, 1968	Sports Car	Morgan	Sports Car Club of America National	Cotati Raceway		Race	Equipment Failure
Marshall Wuertley (USA)	June 27, 1976	Dragster			I-55 Raceway		Time Trial	Crash
Louis Wusterhausen (USA)	October 8, 1972	Stock Car	Chevrolet Camaro	Automobile Racing Club of America	Texas World Speedway	Royal Triton ARCA	Race	Crash
Hannes Wustinger (AUT)	October 15, 1994	Touring Car	BMW M3	Austrian Touring Car Championship	Zeltweg Air Base	Saisonfinale Österreichring	Race	Crash
Norbert Wylie (USA)	September 14, 1924				Hawthorne Race Course	Dreamland Derby	Post-Race	Crash
Adam Wyllie (SCO)	July 16, 1965	Open Wheel	Brabham BT16	Formula Libre	Dunboyne	Leinster Trophy	Practice	Hit by another car, struck an electricity transmission ESB pole and somersaulted into a field
Cornelius Wynja (USA)	May 13, 1951			Bell Timing Association	El Mirage Lake		Land Speed Record	Crash
Howard Wysong (USA)	June 13, 1964	Dragster		American Hot Rod Association	U.S. 30 Dragway		Race	Crash

X

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Aray Xavier (BRA)	April 5, 1987	Open Wheel	Van Diemen RF86 Ford	Snetterton Formula Ford 1600 Championship	Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit	Champion of Snetterton FF1600 series	Race	Hit by another car and flipped onto barriers upside down
Manny Xuereb (AUS)	August 6, 1972	Touring Car	Ford Anglia SRC		Oran Park Raceway		Race	Crashed into pit lane

Y

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Floyd Yaeger (USA)	July 29, 1960	Sprint car		International Motor Contest Association	Scotland County Speedway		Race	Went over a bank, plunger over and rolled
Phillip Yau (HK)	November 16, 2012	Touring car	Chevrolet Cruze		Guia Circuit	59th Macau Grand Prix	Qualifying	Clipped a barrier on the inside of a turn and smashed into a wall on the outside of the turn
Takahashi Yokoyama (JPN)	October 19, 1997	Open Wheel	Dallara F396	Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Fuji Speedway	1997 Japanese Formula 3 Championship	Race	Crashed into another car, went airborne and hit the gantry carrying a signboard
Nam Yee Yong (SIN)	September 2, 1963	Sports Car	Jaguar D-Type	Formule Libre, non-championship	Johore	Johore Grand Prix	Race	Crashed into a wall, car broke in two and the front fell off of a cliff to the beach below
Danny Young (USA)	July 19, 1995	Sprint car	Unknown	World of Outlaws	Knoxville Speedway	Sprint car event	Race	Flipped nine times
Don Young (USA)	September 22, 1985	Dragster	Unknown	International Hot Rod Association	Bristol Dragway	Fall Nationals	Race	Crashed into guard rail and support post and was thrown out
Joe Young (USA)	February 13, 1987	Stock Car	Chevrolet Cavalier	Charlotte/Daytona Dash Series	Daytona International Speedway	Komfort Koach 200	Race	Hit by another car after a multi-car crash

Z

Name	Date of accident	Discipline	Car	Championship	Circuit	Event	Session	Cause	Source
Leopoldo Olvera Zabado (ARG)	November 23, 1954	Touring Car	Chevrolet Bel Air	1954 World Sportscar Championship	Carrera Panamericana	Carrera Panamericana	Race	Accident
Dave Zachary (USA)	September 22, 1968	Dragster	Cadillac Eldorado		Blue Grass Dragway		Race	Rolled over and the roll cage collapsed
Danilo Zaffari (BRA)	July 4, 1971	Touring car	Dodge Dart		Rally da Integração Nacional	I Rally da Integração Nacional	Rally	Crash
Vincenzo Zaffino (ITA)	September 19, 1982	Kart			Cosenza	1° Memorial Gilles Villeneuve - Circuito di Cosenza	Post-qualifying	Crashed head-first into a metal tube from a barrier at 81 mph
Ron Zanolli (USA)	August 30, 1987	Dragster	Chevrolet Monza		Lebanon Valley Dragway		Race	Went out off control, flipped, hit a tree and landed in a creek bed
Jan Kees Zantvoort (NED)	June 8, 1996	Rally car	Nissan Micra		Eindhoven Luik Eindhoven Rally	33rd Eindhoven Luik Eindhoven Rally	Race	Crashed into a tree
Carlos Zatuszek (ARG)	October 8, 1937	Stock Car	Mercedes-Benz SSK	Turismo Carretera	Casilda	Gran Premio Ciudad de Casilda	Practice	Slid on the track, hit a fence and was thrown out
Eliot Zborowski (GBR)	April 1, 1903	Hillclimbing	Mercedes		La Turbie	Course de Côte Nice-La Turbie	Race	Crashed into a small rock and was thrown out
Louis Zborowski (POL)	October 19, 1924	Open Wheel	Mercedes M72/94		Monza	1924 Italian Grand Prix	Race	Went off the road and crashed into a tree
Henryk Ziemski (POL)	May 13, 1977	Touring car	Polski Fiat 125p	Rajdowe Samochodowe Mistrzostwa Polski	Rajd Kormoran	X. Rajd Kormoran	Race	Crashed into a tree trying to avoid a bus
Paolo Zuccarelli (ITA)	June 13, 1913	Open Wheel	Peugeot EX3	1913 Grand Prix season, non-championship	Amiens	1913 French Grand Prix	Testing	Crashed into a horse cart and was thrown out
Attilio Zuppini (ITA)	March 13, 1966	Touring Car	Fiat Abarth 850 TC		Monza	Coppa Fisa 1966	Race	Hit a barrier and somersaulted several times
Bob Zwemke (USA)	September 20, 1975	Modified	Unknown	NASCAR Super Modifieds	San Jose Speedway	Weekly race	Practice	Rear axle broke and tore open the fuel tank

See also

• List of deaths by motorcycle accident
• List of people who died in road accidents
• List of accidents and disasters by death toll for sporting events
• List of fatal accidents in motorboat racing
• Driver deaths in British motorsport series
• List of 24 Hours of Le Mans fatal accidents
• List of NASCAR fatal accidents
• List of Champ Car fatal accidents
• List of Formula One fatal accidents
• List of Dakar Rally fatal accidents
• Death of Dale Earnhardt

References

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External links

• Database of people that perished in motorsports
• A list of all drivers who were killed in racing, testing or practicing at Daytona.
• Template:Ja A list of drivers who perished or were seriously injured in motorsports