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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1102548, member: 289"]
Not sure how that article contradicts anything that i was saying:

"It appears Stewart saw him at the last second, and swerved, but still hit Ward hard enough to toss him like a rag doll at least 20 feet down the track. An autopsy is pending, but it seems likely Ward suffered a broken neck, though he still had his helmet and head restraint device on, but the device only works when you are strapped into your car. Stewart stopped about a hundred feet down the track. Emergency workers were there in second. Indeed, Stewart may have hit the gas, but you steer sprint cars with the throttle more than with the steering wheel. The idea that he accelerated trying to hit Ward is beyond the pale.

[SIZE=4][B]How could this happen?[/B][/SIZE]
I have driven winged sprint cars, and as you can imagine, visibility to the side is horrible. Ward was wearing a mostly black fire suit and a black helmet. The idea that any driver would purposely hit another over what was a comparatively minor, that’s-racing incident is hard to swallow. That Tony Stewart would do it on purpose? That is unthinkable."

The article does bring up the subject of head restraints a guy interviewed on the local news who is both a former dirt car driver and lawyer pointed out that head restraints restrict side-to-side head motion and thus the driver's peripheral vision.
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