He was leading at the time of the crash…

@jake99776 Yes, 33 days later from his injuries and contaminated blood he received while being treated for his burns. He also had a broken leg.

DID HE DIE?

0:08 Looks like all is Left is the Engine! OMG, this WAS the worst Crash in Indy 500 History!! <:^P
Make that Last Crash at the End of the 2010 Indy 500 Look Extremely Close to being as bad!! <:^P

I remember this one an what a terrible year. Soon afterward the track was changed to get rid of that wall and change the pit enterance. That was a sad day for sure.

@AutoRockinRacing94 I remember watching this live. If the tape had played on another 2 seconds,you would have seen the ambulance driving through the grass from behind the wreck hit someone running to the scene and launching him in the air.they replayed that on T.V. a few times too.

You got to remember this, one of the STP crew members was strucked by a truck soon after that.

@ZinaMcCrae – fuck you

Holy cow, where is Swede? I can’t see him.

F-Indy fuck!!!!!!!!

@Hlover01

rotten luck, at least he didn’t burn to death – thank the Lord for that – I’d rather go like he did then say Roger Williamson same year at Zandvoort, Netherlands – watch that one – it was really screwed up

@YeLlPr But without the contaminated blood he might have lived. Who knows what really impacted in his death the most.

@Hlover01 He did die from the crash. Even if the blood he recieved was contaminated, he wouldn’t have had to get it if it wasn’t for the crash.

I was 7 years old when this happened. I remember a d.j. on the radio announcing Swede’s death and he stressed all young children to remember to wear your seat belt. That has stuck with me ever since.

He wasn’t killed from the crash. He died in the hospital 33 days later. the blood he was recieving was possibly contaiminated with hepatitis B, causing his liver to fail, resulting in death.

I’ve seen Andy Granetelli the past 2 years at the Indy 500 riding around in the celebrity cars that tour the track before the race, but I think ’73 was his last year at Indy being competitve. If it was I can’t blame him…he had 3 drivers in the race: Savage who dies, MacRae’s pitcrew man is killed in an avoidable accident after Andy G. tells him to help in the Savage wreck, and he had the winner Johncock…forget the fact that his former driver Art Pollard was killed before qualifying in ’73.

@harponercam I don’t recall seeing him stand up at all..And there were still Granetelli STP cars at least till 1987 with Roberto Guerraro

I remember seeing this on the news when i was a kid growing up in Dayton, Ohio. All they talked about was Salt Walther and Sweet savage.

Unfortunately for Swede, he didn’t die instantly, though.

I watched this whole thing throuugh binoculars from where my family sat for years in turn four.

Beside the motor, Swede was the biggest piece left on the track. He actually stood up, with pieces of wreckage hanging from him. I could see the heat waves around him, but not the fire- but by the way he was squirming around, I knew he was on fire.

A most horrible and unforgetable sight- I had no dreams of racing after.
It was about the end of Andy Granetelli’s STP day glo orange cars then.

1973 was a year to forget at Indy…add this to the crash at the start too.

“It is widely reported that Savage died of kidney failure from infection, but Dr. Steve Olvey, Savage’s attending physician at Indy (and later CART’s Director of Medical Affairs), claimed in his book Rapid Response that the real cause of death was complications related to contaminated plasma. Olvey claimed that Savage contracted hepatitis B from a transfusion, causing his liver to fail.”

the music makes this vid sound soooo epic

Most people don’t know this… but while running to put the fire out, a crewman was struck and killed by an emergency vehicle…

I still have the Chicago Sun-Times article from May 30, 1976.

@tywis1

Yes… he died.

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@zewalla Happy 2 know.t it just amazing surviving from this horrible accident..

@energeticlear A few broken bones for Conway, but alive.

0:04 to 0:13 = Best 2 Tires Drift 4EVAH!

unbelieveable that he survived seriously… its wierd thinkin that mike only lived like 5 miles from my house when he was younger.

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What happened to them?

Imagine that you are in that car or to be behind that fence.
The driver passed out its save sport :D:D:D:D:D(rofl)

@sporkfed89 no, he didn’t died

cool

OMG did you see the tyre :D:Dgoing streight after the crash

IS HE STILL ALIVE????

it was whiplash!

Did he died?

@TheGEARS15 yep, messed his leg up though

IS HE STILL ALIVE????

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damn that was one hell of a view at :50 crazy shit

Very cool race but also very dangerous. Thank goodness for the catch fence.

@PrtuguesePride see the comments by me.

the accident here is very similar to the crash of Tom Sneva back in 1975. The engine and transaxle was ripped completely of the tub by the catchfence.Moreover like Sneva”s crash in 1975, the major part of the impact was tail and bellypan first. The accident happened in the same fashion as Conway’s right rear wheel climbed over Hunter-Reay’s left front. See Tom Sneva’s accident in ’75, and compare. Thanks for posting, VJ.

Damn how did english dude not die?

@djfjsd45

im sorry, i understand that it may be an spectacular accident, but imagine if the care goes trough the fence??? or if the pilot died??

i know this is youtube, but not even joking this coulded be a very sirious for envolved persons