{"id":39647,"date":"2017-05-16T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T19:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=39647"},"modified":"2017-05-16T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T22:15:36","slug":"lagano-walks-away-from-wreck-unharmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/lagano-walks-away-from-wreck-unharmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Logano Walks Away from Wreck Unharmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VP2reBtLCl8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joey Logano and Danica Patrick walked away from a fiery crash at Kansas speedway largely in thanks to their safety equipment. \u00a0Check out Mike Aguilar&#8217;s original article on how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/2017\/05\/09\/nascar-safety-innovations-continue-to-save-lives\/\">NASCAR&#8217;s Safety Innovations Continues To Save Lives<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Truex Jr. just outlasted Brad Keselowski and Pole Winner Ryan Blaney to take home the checkered flag at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nascar.com\/en_us\/race-center\/2017\/monster-energy-nascar-cup-series\/go-bowling-400.html\">Go Bowling 400<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansasspeedway.com\/?homepage=true\">Kansas Speedway<\/a> this past Saturday. Rookie Erik Jones is recovering from the dizziness his numerous spins caused. And Danica Patrick, Joey Logano, and Aric Almirola are recovering emotionally, and in Aric\u2019s case physically, from the horrendous wreck, they were involved in towards the end of Saturday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39665\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39665\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39665\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/lagano-walks-away-from-wreck-unharmed\/logano-breaks\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Logano-Breaks\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;This image shows that the corner one of the hood flaps on Logano\u2019s car has clearly been shattered by something&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-39665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"This image shows that the corner one of the hood flaps on Logano\u2019s car has clearly been shattered by something\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Logano-Breaks.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This image shows that the corner one of the hood flaps on Logano\u2019s car has clearly been shattered by something<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeylogano.com\/\">Logano<\/a>\u2019s car suffered a catastrophic failure of something on the right side (probably an exploded brake rotor) causing his car to take an immediate hard left into Danica\u2019s right rear quarter panel, turning her hard right into the outside fence in Turn 1, engulfing her car in a shower of sparks. Joey\u2019s car climbed back up the track and hooked back up with Danica\u2019s as it slid along the wall.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39662\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39662\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/lagano-walks-away-from-wreck-unharmed\/danica-hits-wall\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Danica-Hits-Wall\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Danica hits the wall doing about 180MPH after Logano\u2019s car hooks her after suffering a part breakage.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-39662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Danica hits the wall doing about 180MPH after Logano\u2019s car hooks her after suffering a part breakage.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Danica-Hits-Wall.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danica hits the wall doing about 180MPH after Logano\u2019s car hooks her after suffering a part breakage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Aric had committed to the outside in what looked like an attempt to clear the wreck as it slid down the track. However, the cars didn\u2019t slide down the track and <a href=\"http:\/\/aricalmirola.com\/\">Almirola<\/a>, all four wheels locked up braking, plowed almost straight head-on into Joey\u2019s car. The impact caused all three cars to be engulfed in a wall of flames and the rear-end of Aric\u2019s car was catapulted at least six feet in the air.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39653\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39653\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/lagano-walks-away-from-wreck-unharmed\/almirola-lifting\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Almirola-Lifting-e1494961218415.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"640,340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Almirola-Lifting\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Almirola\u2019s car looks like its going to flip over lengthwise after plowing head-on into Joey Logano\u2019s car doing around 180MPH.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Almirola-Lifting-e1494961218415-300x159.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Almirola-Lifting-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-39653\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Almirola-Lifting-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Almirola\u2019s car looks like its going to flip over lengthwise after plowing head-on into Joey Logano\u2019s car doing around 180MPH.\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39653\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almirola\u2019s car looks like its going to flip over lengthwise after plowing head-on into Joey Logano\u2019s car doing around 180MPH.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danicapatrick.com\/\">Danica<\/a> and Joey both walked away from the wreck unharmed. Although he immediately lowered his window net to let track safety workers he was OK, he had to be cut out of his car. Word is the safety cage was deformed to the extent that Aric couldn\u2019t free himself from the wreck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39654\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39654\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/lagano-walks-away-from-wreck-unharmed\/aric-is-lifted-up-out\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1201,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-&amp;#038;-Out\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt; After peeling half of the top of the car back, safety workers strap Almirola to a backboard and lift him up and out of the car.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-39654\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\" After peeling half of the top of the car back, safety workers strap Almirola to a backboard and lift him up and out of the car.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Aric-Is-Lifted-Up-Out.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39654\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After peeling half of the top of the car back, safety workers strap Almirola to a backboard and lift him up and out of the car.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After safety workers cut the top off his car, they pulled him out on a backboard. We found out at the end of the race that he had been taken to an area hospital, awake and alert, for \u201cobservation.\u201d Turns out that the T5 vertebrae in the middle of his back suffered a compression fracture in the wreck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39648\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39648\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"39648\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/lagano-walks-away-from-wreck-unharmed\/43-car-cut-open\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1201,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"43-Car-Cut-Open\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Almirola\u2019s car is taken away by a wrecker after he had to be cut out of it after the wreck. NASCAR has taken the car to their R&amp;#038;D Center. Hopefully something new in the realm of driver safety will come out of this.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open-1024x682.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-39648\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Almirola\u2019s car is taken away by a wrecker after he had to be cut out of it after the wreck. NASCAR has taken the car to their R&amp;D Center. Hopefully something new in the realm of driver safety will come out of this.\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/43-Car-Cut-Open.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39648\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Almirola\u2019s car is taken away by a wrecker after he had to be cut out of it after the wreck. NASCAR has taken the car to their R&amp;D Center. Hopefully something new in the realm of driver safety will come out of this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The good news out of Saturday\u2019s wreck? Joey and Aric would almost certainly have experienced more serious injuries as little as five years ago. As it is, although he may miss the rest of the 2017 season, he will most likely fully recover from his injury and return to racing in time for next year\u2019s season opener.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you NASCAR for continually innovating when it comes to safety. Keep up the good work. It\u2019s saving lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Joey Logano and Danica Patrick walked away from a fiery crash at Kansas Speedway largely in thanks to their safety equipment.  <\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":39653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,3424,3470,22],"tags":[1074,127,41,5327],"class_list":["post-39647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-column","category-nascar","category-news","category-event-coverage","tag-mike-aguilar","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-safety-equipment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Almirola-Lifting-e1494961218415.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-ajt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39683,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39647\/revisions\/39683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}