British racing driver escapes with broken leg after car disintegrates in 200mph horror smash

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By Daily Mail Reporter

Mike Conway goes airborne before crashing into the fencing after colliding with Ryan Hunter-Reay (37) during Indianapolis 500


This is the moment British driver Mike Conway was launched into the air at 200mph during the Indy 500 motor race.

His car catapulted into the safety fencing and disintegrated in front of hundreds of thousands of horrified spectators.

But amazingly, Conway only sustained broken leg and ligament damage.


Dreyer & Reinbold Racing driver Mike Conway flies through the air after crashing with Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay


The car was airborne for several seconds during the penultimate lap of the race


Team owner Dennis Reinbold told how the accident happened a split second before he was about to warn Conway that other drivers were sklowing down.

'I was just getting ready to tell Mike, 'Some guys are going to slow down, so give yourself some room'' Reinbold said, his upper lip quivering. 'I never got the words out.'

With cars slowing to save fuel, the 26-year-old Briton entered the narrow short chute between turns three and four, ran into Ryan Hunter-Reay's sputtering car and flew into the catch fence.

The accident on Lap 199 prompted the final caution of the race and shook up the drivers.

'It's not comforting going underneath a car flipping in the air,' Danica Patrick said. 'I got through it, but I hope they're OK. It's never good when people are upside down and doing cartwheels


The car begins to disintegrate as it strikes the catch fencing going backwards at 200mph


This amazing image captures the split second when Conway's car slams into the fence


Horrified spectators look on as the racing car splinters apart. But, crucially, the cockpit remains intact saving Conway from serious injury


The remains of the car skids along the race track with the driver strapped inside. Because the vehicle was very low on fuel, there was no fire


Reinbold didn't even realize at first that it was Conway and teammate Ana Beatriz involved in the crash.

The small-budget team owner with four cars in Sunday's lineup had his eyes on IndyCar's biggest prize - winning the Indianapolis 500 - and decided to send Conway after it.

'We caught the pack. When you catch the pack and you're going that fast, it's a gamble,' Reinbold said. 'But it's the Indianapolis 500 and sometimes you have to take a gamble.'


Survived: Mike Conway suffered compound fracture to his left leg


The risk didn't pay off, shaking Reinbold and his team as the car was unloaded in two long pieces and the destroyed chassis was thrown into a pile of rubble.

Doctors rushed to his aid as wreckage was strewn across the track and Conway, 26, was airlifted to hospital.

His injuries were last night described as 'gruesome' and the man from Bromley in Kent faces a long fight back.

Doctors believe Conway suffered a compound fracture of his left leg, as well as tearing ligaments and tendons in his knees and ankles.

The miracle is that his injuries were not more serious given the severity of the accident that drew gasps not just from the crowd, but from the drivers coming to the end of one of the fastest and most gruelling events in the motor racing calendar.

Reinbold acknowledged series officials didn't have enough time to react to the slowing field and the hard-charging Conway.

Brian Barnhart, IndyCar president of competition and racing operations, said there was probably nothing he would have done anyway.

'It looked like the closing rate was pretty significant between the 37 and 24 and when you're in the middle of a corner like that,' Barnhart said.

'It's one of the risks that happens when you come down to the end of a race.'

Hunter-Reay, however, thought it could have been prevented another way.

'In hindsight we should have stopped for fuel,' he said. 'It's dangerous. ...

There's no runoff lane. There's no bailout procedure. You've got to slow down or you're going to hit the car in front of you.'

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Lin Ping's 1st Birthday!

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News Center Chiang Mai - Chiang Mai Zoo commemorated big birthday panda cub, Lin Ping, age of first year fans flock appreciate congestion. While a great little panda development continued. China preparing for negotiations is extended to two more years in Thailand.

Panda cub, Ling Ping, is now weighing 36 kg with a height of about 135 cm while the newborn panda weighs only 257 grams at only the overall strength completely good health. From experiments such as bamboo shoot eating solid food and various fruits. Along with milk consumption. While skills in climbing improved significantly.












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The six-month-old baby who learnt to walk before he could crawl

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Child prodigy: Baby Xavier is tottering unaided at the age of just six months


A baby has stunned his parents and medical experts by wobbling to his feet and walking unaided at the age of just six months.

Baby prodigy Xavier can now walk over six feet without any support - a feat most one-year-olds still struggle with.

His parents Mary, 30, and David King, 27, said they knew their son was going to be a fast learner when he started sitting up on his own at three-months-old


But they were astonished when little Xavier first started tottering around the front room in January.

His precocious walking ability is all the more surprising considering he is only just learning to crawl.

First-time mum Mary, from Cambridge, said: 'It was such a shock. We couldn't believe it.

'I never thought for one moment he would be walking at six months most children don't until they are a year old.

'Xavier is more advanced than most babies his age. We go to a day nursery and the children there can't even walk and they are older than him.

'At the moment he can walk about two metres unaided it was just amazing when he got up and start putting one leg in front of the other.


Mary and David King say they always knew their son would be a fast learner as he could sit up from the age of three months

'The only problem now is that I can't leave him alone so have had to buy a play pen so he doesn't get into any mischief.'

Xavier, now aged seven months, was born in July last year weighing 9lb 1oz.

By October he was sitting up by himself and he started walking unaided last month.

Mary said neither she or David, a shopping centre manager, started walking until they were at least a year old.


The comedic value of babies walking before they are meant to was realised in the recent Evian TV advert. It featured computer generated images of babies break-dancing in a park


She added: 'It was amazing but we always knew he would be a fast learner.

'I think using the bouncing chair has built up the muscles in his legs but it's funny how he learned to walk before he learned to crawl.

'I always thought it would be the other way around.'

Child development experts confirmed it was 'extremely uncommon' for a child to start walking at such a young age.

Dr Martin Ward Platt, consultant paediatrician at Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, said: 'It's very unusual to be walking at such a young age.

'To be quite so precocious with your walking is extremely uncommon, but with 700,000 babies delivered every in the UK it will happen from time to time.

'For his parents, having to cope with a much more mobile child much earlier than expected simply brings forward the moment you need eyes in the back of your head.'
And here's what some babies can do with a little computer jiggery-pokery...
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Security guards caught on CCTV standing by as teenage girl is brutally beaten by another female

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By Paul Thompson

Security guards in yellow vests are shown standing and watching as a fight begins between two 15-year-old girls in a Seattle bus tunnel


A teenager whose brutal beating was captured on CCTV as security guards stood by and watched has provoked outrage across America.

The victim was repeatedly punched and kicked in the face during the horrific unprovoked assault.

Three uniformed security guards watched while the beating took place and failed to help the young girl.

Even as the 15-year-old victim laid motionless on the floor they did not bend down to see if she was badly hurt.

A teenager whose brutal beating was captured on CCTV as security guards stood by and watched has provoked outrage across America.

The victim was repeatedly punched and kicked in the face during the horrific unprovoked assault.

Three uniformed security guards watched while the beating took place and failed to help the young girl.

Even as the 15-year-old victim laid motionless on the floor they did not bend down to see if she was badly hurt.

The savage attack - which was captured on CCTV cameras - has shocked America after it was played on news reports.

Bosses for the security guards said it was company policy for their employees to 'observe and report' and not get involved.

But TV stations and other media have been bombarded with outraged complaints about the guards' lack of action.

One outraged parent said:'Those security guards are just as guilty (if not more guilty) than the thug who did the beating.

'Those security guards should be tried. It looked like the girl went to them for support and protection, only to find that they had no spine.'

The victim, who has not been named, said she believed the security guards at a bus station in Seattle, Washington, would protect her.

'I went to the security and told them that these kids were trying to jump me,' the girl said in court papers.


The security guards are shown standing and watching as a 15-year-old girl is kicked by another teenage girl


'I know that I am about to get jumped and I am hanging around the guards to try and get protection. ... I thought the security guards would defend me.'

The girl said she had sought out the guards after an earlier altercation inside a department store with a gang of eight youths and two girls.

The 15-year-old, who is black, said the gang had said he was 'acting white' and had 'nice things'.

Police noticed the confrontation and kicked the gang out of the store while the victim and her friend went to the bus station.

CCTV cameras pick up the girl as she stands next to a uniformed security guard in the hope they will offer her some protection.

But after being attacked by another girl she is knocked to the floor where her attacker pummels her head with a flurry of blows.

When the victim loses consciousness the attacker continues to kick her in the head.
As the assault continues a security guard standing over the victim does not even try to intervene other than calling police.


girl takes another swing at her victim as one of the security guards looks on
Another guard turns away while a third further down the platform looks on.


The attacker walks away, but runs back to land one last kick on her victim's head while another member of the gang runs off with her bag containing a mobile phone and iPod.

Amazingly, the victim did not need hospital treatment.

She said in court papers that she suffers from a heart condition and was trying to protect her chest during the assault.

A woman who witnessed the assault from a bus said:'You've got three male security guards and there's a young girl getting kicked in the head, lying on the ground, motionless? And they couldn't do anything? Doesn't seem like security.'

A spokesman for Olympic Security said their guards have instructions not to get involved

But the owners of the bus station Metro Transit said they are reviewing their contract in light of the lack of action by their staff.

Seattle city officials have also demanded an inquiry.

'We are very disappointed in what people see in that video,' said Kevin Desmond, general manager of Metro Transit.

'It was absolutely unacceptable. I know the Olympic Security folks were also disappointed in the response, but again, the employees were following the letter of the agreement.'

Police used Facebook and MySpace pages to track down the gang and arrested four of those involved, including the alleged attacker.

Dominique Whittaker,18, has been charged with assault and faces up to two years in jail.

Two other youths have also been charged in connection with the assault
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