TBK-Light.com

call it a bullshit source if you want, idc, there is never anything official in these situations and you have to take stuff at face value, waiting for an hour to give me that great bit of advice is just as useless you know.

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/6dk7sn

There is not a prize for being the first to report that he died.

Like nobody else here would have posted that tweet if they'd come upon it first.

thanks for stating the obvious cArmAkAze, I won't post any more updates then.

When people are using random tweets as their sources, that's probably for the best.

Here's hoping the best for Shane

We had the same when Massa was injured
We had the same when Henry Surtees was injured.
Please report what you hear, but let's quote the source too ... As we know, there are some idiots out there who like this sort of thing and we don't need to add any fuel to their fire!

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I think you should do what you want.

It's your forum and I paid the bills this year..

and if people don't like it they shouldComplain here

Sounds terrible. I've heard he's been doing really well in USAC this season. Would be so utterly cruel for him to go down like this after working so hard to get clean and pull himself back together.

I'm hoping for the best. It's terrible that something like this happened. He seemed to have turned his life around after drugs cost him his Nascar career. His racing career seemed to have gotten a second lease on life in USAC.

As far as posting reports go. Please post stuff that are from reliable sourses. I would be leary of posting stuff from twitter because it's very hard to verify how much of that stuff is credible and how much of it is horse manure.

One Tweet was enough to let people think that former NHL head coach Pat Burns died from the cancer he's currently fighting. Even TSN, "Canada's sports leader" got caught. They had to appology to Pat Burns, who said "they all want me to die, but I'll show them how wrong they can be !"

He was really getting things back on the right track by doing well in USAC and working with the Three-wide Life TV show as well. Wish him a speedy recovery.

He's suffered some spinal fractures according to this link:

http://www.topnewspress.com/shane-hmiel ... ent/87517/

looks like google translated that

here's one I found this morning that is a bit easier to understand.


http://bleacherreport.com/articles/4871 ... wing-crash

Moving his arms is a very good thing. But they don't mention anything about his legs

Posted by the team he was driving for last night but hell that is probably just another bullshit post.



http://www.indianaopenwheel.com/showthread.php?t=38017

Im not gonna embed it because some may not want to see it, but here is video of the crash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm8vv25-jY0



Hes lucky to have survived that.

worst possible impact

Indeed.

wow..that cage didnt do much didnt help that he hit the wall in the worst possible way.

You cant expect the cage to hold up to a 100+ mph impact directly into a wall. Those are called ROLL cages for a reason. They are made to withstand a flip.

There was a fatal crash at Daytona back in 1983 during the Twin 125s where a driver was killed due to the roll cage not being able to withstand the impact, his name was Bruce Jacobi.

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