swca92 (August 18, 2008 at 10:38 pm)

How did he survive? If I had seen this live I would have been sure Fox was dead.I've seen this race on DVD and its one of the great Indy 500's,only this accident kind of ruins things.

QuikdrawlMcgraw (August 15, 2008 at 2:40 pm)

he DID NOT have his llegs amputated at the track or anywhere stan fox recovered from thiswreck an died racong later stan fox DID NOT DIE IN THIS WRECK his legs were not broken you peopel got no idea what yer talkin about stan fox did NOT DIE as a result of the accident he dies in december 2000 in NEW ZEALAND in aheadon wreck on a regular road

champcar4ever (August 3, 2008 at 4:20 pm)

It was actually Turn 3 not Turn 2 that Smiley crashed at.

slitheringinterstate (August 1, 2008 at 9:44 pm)

ChampCarForever, I respect your disagreement, but I am very confident I am correct. As evidence, I have supplied video of the fatal Earnhardt Sr. decapitation during the Russell/Phillips 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway (it was 1995, not 1996...) Phillips is a major tobacco producer in the american southeast. Have you consulted any books or texts to verify the year of Earnhardt's passing? With Smiley being killed at Daytona in 01, are you saying they were killed together? I doubt it.

champcar4ever (August 1, 2008 at 7:17 am)

Whoa, whoa, whoa let's back up a bit. DE Sr. was the one who died of basilar skull in the 2001 Daytona race. Smiley died when he over corrected a loose condition in Turn 2 @ Indy and hit the wall perpendicularly. He died instantly. I don't know what crash you are referring to at Charlotte in 1996. By the way, one of DE Sr. nicknames was "Ironhead" with his father having the nickname of "Ironheart".

slitheringinterstate (August 1, 2008 at 2:33 am)

Champcar4ever, With due respect, I do beleive your information is inaccurate, at least partially. Gordon Smiley to my knowledge died in a horrifying head on collision with a wall, dying of a basilar skull fracture on the final lap of the Daytona 500. Dale Earnhardt Sr was indeed also killed in a horror crash as you stated, however his was more gruesome, as he was decapitated when his roof was sheered off by a light tower, at Charlotte in 1996 :( He was called "Old Ironheart"

champcar4ever (July 31, 2008 at 4:31 am)

I think of course you meant Dale Earnhardt. Smiley of course died at Indianapolis in 1982 in one of the most horrific crashes ever.

slitheringinterstate (July 30, 2008 at 8:03 pm)

Theycallhimsim, Firstly in relation to your comment, thank you for your attention. Secondly, you are correct. Stan's passing in this road accident was a true shame, and is IS remarkable that he got out of this accident with his life and hovered in depressive lonely insanity for as long as he did. RIP STAN...hasn't been a more tragic fatality in racing since Gordon Smiley at Daytona in 2001...

theycallhimsim (July 30, 2008 at 7:24 pm)

Ah, everyone's favourite 'advanced autosport certified research analyst'. Brave effort, but the idea is to be clever (relatedly, it's 'gangrene') and amusing, not tiresome. I only hope that everyone else reading ignores you instead of granting you any further attention. Enough of that. It's remarkable that Stan got out with his life, and a real shame that he would become another on the list of racing drivers to die in a road accident.

slitheringinterstate (July 30, 2008 at 1:16 am)

Sir Stanley Fox unfortunately had his legs crushed in this accident and were broken in over 84 places, and both were immediately amuptated while he was still in the car on the track to avoid gangreen. He lingered in deep depression in the hospital for nearly 3 years, and is said to have had only 2 visitors the entire time. He hung himself with an I.V. bag on Jan. 23rd, 1998. RIP Stanley...may a humiliating death come to "the villian", Edward Cheever.