Question:
By the same logic, spinning around in a race car at 200 plus mph crashing into things with nothing around you equals broken bones - at least. But in this case, all that ammo was fired, and nobody got hit. The only significant injury Stan had was a closed head injury - which presumably had nothing to do with the disintergration of the front of the car.

There is a LOT to be learned here. One of the first questions that comes to my mind is to wonder - in a frontal impact where the driver does recieve leg injuries - is just how much of that injury is caused by suspension pieces and other parts of the car intruding into the footbox? The ONLY significant injury???? You make it sound as if closed cranial trauma is a far better outcome than a broken leg. Who would you rather be at this point in time, Stan Fox or Christian Fittipaldi?(In a rough comparison of injuries) Who's had the better outcome??? You're not "learning" anything here by looking at these pictures. What is there to be learned??? I don't know that much about Stan Fox's accident, but I do understand gratuitous attempts at drawing interest. Maybe you get off by looking at those kinds of pictures but don't even try to attempt to justify them as a learning experience.

Answer: Unfortunately, you've trimmed away most of my message here - and taken one line out of context.... NO, I am not saying that a closed head injury is in any way better than leg injuries. What I said was that the head injury was very likely NOT a result of the damage to the front of the car.

And - you're saying that there is nothing to be learned from the pictures. I think you're wrong. One thing that is apparent in the pictures and has been discussed in some circles is that Fox has his arms folded across him thru the entire accident - despite presumably being unconcious. That is a learned response from years of driving sprint cars and midgets - and it looks to me as if it's something that should be drilled into Indy drivers, too. I'm not really replying on topic, but I thought it was amazing that Stan Fox only sustained the head injury. I remember the picture in the "Sporting Green" section of the SF Chronicle the day after. It was a shot of Fox's purple car a couple of feet in the air with the nose completely sheared off to expose his legs. Meanwhile, Cheever was sliding uncontrollably underneath. When his car "landed" the exposed front immediately turned to face the wall. It looked like his legs might get smeared off.