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Eight Sprint Cup fans were injured on the final-lap wreck that sent the No. 99 Ford of driver Carl Edwards airborne into the safety fence on the front stretch at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday.
The fan transported by air to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Hospital was being treated for facial injuries that included what Lewis described as a minor laceration of her lip and “possibly a broken jaw.”
According to NASCAR official Jim Hunter and Dr. Bobby Lewis an eighth patient, also a female, was air-lifted to nearby Brookwood Hospital after suffering chest pains that occurred during or shortly after she witnessed the incident while sitting in the same grandstand section as the others who were injured.
The remaining injured fans suffered what Lewis described as mostly minor “bumps, bruises and contusions.” He did add that “there is the possibility of a couple of minor fractures” which he described as possible “broken extremities.” Track spokesperson Kristi King later added that all six had been treated at and released from the track’s on-site medical facilities, and that two of them said they planned to follow up with further evaluations from their own physicians.
The incident that caused the injuries occurred when Keselowski executed a last-lap pass on Edwards and ended up turning Edwards sideways. Edwards then slid into the path of the No. 39 car of Ryan Newman, who slammed into the No. 99 and sent it airborne into the catch-fence.
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“Brad did a great job,” Edwards said after being treated at the infield care center. “Congrats to him on the win, but [NASCAR] put us in this box and I guess we’ll race like this until we kill somebody. And then they’ll change it.”
Edwards also indicated he felt fortunate to be alive.
“First of all, I’ve got to tell my wife and my mom that I’m fine,” Edwards said. “Brad was pushing; he’s doing everything he can. I saw him go high. I went high. Then he went low and I didn’t realize he got that far [under Edwards’ car], so I went low to block him a little bit and he was already there.
“At that point I’m thinking, ‘Boy, I wish this [car] was made of liquid gel material.’ And then I was very fortunate we hit the wall in a way that it didn’t crush my roll cage down on my neck because that would have been a lot worse. NASCAR just puts us in this box. I’m glad the car didn’t go up in the grandstands and hurt somebody.”
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