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Russell Phillips
Russell Lee Phillips (March 6, 1969 – October 6, 1995) was a NASCAR Sportsman Division driver from the United States. He was killed in a crash at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1995.
==Death==
The Winston 100 at Charlotte was the 17th NASCAR Sportsman start of the 1995 for Phillips, who had one top-10 finish and just won his first pole position. The crash occurred on lap 17 of the 67 lap event. Phillips was in 10th place when his Oldsmobile was hit by the car of Steven Howard, who steered high to avoid a two-car spinout. Howard's car forced Phillips' car onto its right side, then smashed it roof-first into the retaining wall. Until 1996, NASCAR cars were not yet required to be equipped with the "Earnhardt bar", a roof-support bar running down the middle of the windshield, designed to prevent fatal roof collapse in roof-first accidents.〔(P53639 Image Large Photo )〕 His roll bars failed to protect the roof; both the roll bars and the roof itself were sheared completely off the car, exposing the interior of the driver compartment and grinding it against the wall and fence. When the vehicle came back down onto the track on its wheels, there was a massive "gaping hole" where the roof was supposed to be.
Phillips, whose upper body was ground against the track's steel catch fence and a caution light fixture at high speed, was both partially dismembered and decapitated, in what a photographer on-scene described as "as gruesome a wreck as I can ever recall".〔(Sportsman Driver Killed At Charlotte )〕 In video footage taken at the scene of the accident, the first rescuer is initially shown running to the car, then immediately turning away after seeing Phillips' body and realizing the hopelessness of any attempt at resuscitation. The track was littered with car debris, blood, and numerous body parts, necessitating a complete and lengthy red flag while track officials wearing surgical gloves placed white sheets over various body parts in the vicinity of the crash. The driver's head - still in the racing helmet - was found at the entrance of the pit road, and one of his hands was found suspended in the retaining fence.〔Doug Roberson, Newport News Daily Press, (Racing-Safety Package Hits Home ), 2009〕〔Associated Press, The Item (Sumter, S.C.), (Sportsman Driver Dies in Fiery Crash in Winston 100 ), October 7, 1995〕〔Charlotte Observer, (NASCAR Vows to Study Wreck, Sportsman Series ), October 8, 1995〕〔Atlanta Journal-Constitution, (Auto Racing: The Modern Maverick Independent Team Owner Finch Also Notorious as an Independent Thinker ), August 5, 2005〕
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