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This crash looks absolutely brutal at original size: farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/3350708019_a0fd801819_o.jpg You can see the driver flying through the air, although it looks like the photo has been retouched as there is an artificial looking outline around the driver.

English translation of description: "Rare movie: car accident on the racetrack in Hawtorn (Illinois). The twelve successive images: 1 car is overthrown, 2 the first somersault, 3 the driver flies out, 4 a complete somersault, the driver floats through the air, 5 car back down, 6 new sommersault of the car, 7 t / m 10 car tilts to and, 11 and 12 pieces fly off and the unfortunate driver is dead on the ground. Hawtorn United States 1924" : (

Ouch !!

Surreal komplett !

English description of description: "Autosport. As if shot by a catapult, the American driver Cassidy flies through the air, followed by the cushion of his cockpit. Badly bruised, the driver ended up in the hospital. Washington 1936."

This was likely "Wild Bill" Cassidy, crashing at the Arden Downs (dirt) Track, Washington, Pennsylvania, on July 12, 1936. – Dirt Track Auto Racing [2]  

I'd take 'badly bruised' for that sort of bragging rights!

It's an amazing shot. They were made of stronger stuff back then. Can you imagine if this happened to Lewis Hamilton? He'd be in many bits.