2018 MACAO F-3'S HORRIFIC ACCIDENT

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9G7RAyU7yc


The airborne driver who hit a temporary structure was a 17 y.o. female driver from Germany.  She survived but underwent emergency surgery.

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The German female driver and her interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P03mcIpg1Ro


She was an up and coming young talent, started karting (just like all other racing drivers) at an early age.  When old enough, started with formula 4, did well; and moved to Formula 3.

The injury sustained in Macao could well have cut short her racing career.  

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Another angle of the horrific crash in slow-mo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHZWJkcBz8U

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According to the latest, this female, teenage German driver suffered a spinal fracture!

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/autos/ ... UX9?ocid=spartandhp


Spinal cord is the most important part of the human body aside from the heart.  An injury + subsequent surgery and repair if not cutting short her racing career, will take at least two years to recover!  

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That female German driver was really, really lucky to be alive, as were race officials/workers at that corner!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao6dpxmJ4Ag

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Video of the accident and comments from her Team:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p7GoXj9Kis


Ok, there was a wheel contact with another car which broke her left front wheel and she swerved right, hitting the guard rail.  From then on, her car shot thru the air like a missile, at a faster rate than all other cars' driving speed.

This part I don't understand.  How can the speed after impact be faster than other cars' travelling speed.

Post-impact speed should always be slower than primary speed, not faster.  If I throw a ball towards a wall, it will bounce back, but the come-back speed cannot be higher than the initial speed of the ball travelling towards the wall.  Can anyone explain this?