List of fatal accidents

The following is a list of fatal accidents that have claimed the life of a driver in canon. This list also includes fatal accidents that take place outside of canon series.

List

Year	Driver	Car	Location	Series	Cause
1951	Luigi Fagioli	Maserati 4CL	Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium	Formula One	Skidded on oil at Burnenville and slid into an earth bank before subsequently rolling twice. Died the following day from massive head and chest injuries.
1951	Yves Giraud-Cabantous	Gordini T15	Silverstone, United Kingdom	Formula One	Barrel-rolled after losing control on oil and was ejected from the car.
1955	Alberto Ascari	Ferrari 750 Monza	Monza, Italy	Sportscar testing	Ejected from the car after a double somersault.
1955	Pierre Levegh	Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR	Le Mans, France	Le Mans 24 Hours	Crashed into crowd, killing himself and 83 spectators.
1956	Dries van der Lof	Lotus 10	Rouen-les-Essarts, France	Formula One	Car veered into grass bank before catching fire. Eight spectators were killed by flying debris.
1956	André Milhoux	Gordini G-953	Rostock, East Germany	Formula One	Crashed into trees and died instantly.
1956	Paco Godia	Ferrari R560	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	Formula One	Lost control and span into the trackside trees, getting thrown from the car.
1956	Tony Brooks	BCMA C-01	Edinburgh, United Kingdom	Formula One	Collided with a lamppost and killed instantly.
1957	Eugenio Castellotti	Ferrari 315 S	Near Brescia, Italy	Mille Miglia	Car hits a ditch and is sent into a crowd, killing Castellotti, his co-driver Edmund Nelson and nine spectators.
1957	Edmund Nelson	Ferrari 315 S	Near Brescia, Italy	Mille Miglia	Passenger in Castellotti's crash.
1958	Alfonso de Portago	Ferrari 246	Modena, Italy	Formula One Testing	Crash during testing.
1958	Giulio Cabianca	O.S.C.A. F158	Reims, France	Formula One	Slid on an oil slick from Umberto Magioli's car, then struck a stray wheel from the wreckage of José Froilán González's Rob Walker Lotus. This caused the O.S.C.A. to swerve at high speed into the earth bank on the other side of the road, striking it head on and also launching over it, with the car landing in a nearby farm. Cabianca was thrown out of his car in the accident, and suffered major head and neck trauma, which resulted in him being pronounced dead.
1958	Jean-Marie Brussin	Jaguar D Type	Le Mans, France	Le Mans 24 Hours	Spun in the wet at the Dunlop Curve, being ejected from the car. The Jaguar was then struck by the Ferrari of Bruce Kessler causing both cars to burst into flames. Brussin perished immediately whereas Kessler sustained extensive burns.
1966	Francesco Fausti	Maserati Tipo 61	Sicily, Italy	Targa Florio	Car slipped off the road during a thunderstorm.
1967	Georges Berger	Porsche 911	Nürburgring, Germany	Marathon de la Route	Car dug into a ravine and burst into flames.
1976	Niki Lauda	Ferrari 312T	Bikernieki Circuit, Riga, Soviet Union	Formula One	Made contact with Vittorio Brambilla's right rear, being flown up into the air just before the braking point. The Ferrari went straight on and made contact with the wall lining the track head-on. Lauda was pronounced dead after several hours of attempted resuscitation at the nearby hospital.
2013	Dave McFaste	FAT-HART FAT01	Shanghai, China	F1RWRS	Struck the wall at high speed, his head colliding with an unknown object. Died from a cerebral haemorrhage later that evening.
2015	Nobushige Fukuda	Scaven S15	Kyoto Ring, Japan	RoLFS	Pitched into a roll by Tristan Jung before being struck by Tanner Jason.