List of fatal accidents

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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, West 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.
1979	Ouragan	Dywa-002	Circuito di Pergusa, Italy	Dywa GP	Was punted off violently while being lapped by Amalure Arrigorriagakoa. Survived the crash itself, but died overnight from side-effects of an undiagnosed head trauma.
1979	Mike Zhen Hong	Dywa-002	Thruxton Circuit, United Kingdom	Dywa GP	Collided at high speed with the stricken car of Stefano Spaghetti, only to be hit by Ben Dover's car at 134mph, tearing Zhen Hong's car apart. He was pronounced dead at hospital.
1979	George Lightley	Dywa-002	Autodrom Grobnik, Yugoslavia	Dywa GP	Collided with the wall, resulting in his car disintegrating. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
1979	Tom Pryce	Tyrrell 011	Hockenheimring, West Germany	Formula One	Heavily crashed during qualification at Ostkurve.
1979	Diane Ettick	Dywa-002	Bikernieki Circuit, Soviet Union	Dywa GP	Crashed heavily into a wall at high speed. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.
1979	Nina Noyer	Dywa-002	Keimola Motor Stadium, Finland	Dywa GP	Crashed heavily and was caught in catch fencing. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
1980	Eddy Marin	Dywa-002	Autodromo Dino Ferrari, Italy	Dywa GP	Crashed heavily coming out of Piratella, resulting in the car disintegrating. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.
1980	Kruger Dunning	Dywa-002	Zeltweg Airfield, Austria	Dywa GP	Crashed heavily at the first turn during prequalifying. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
1981	Didier Pironi	Renault RE30	Circuit Zolder	Formula 1	Collided with Guillaume Gauthier during qualifying for the 1981 Belgian Grand Prix. Pironi was thrown from his car and pronounced dead upon his arrival at hospital.
1981	Patrick Depailler	Arrows A4	Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez	Formula 1	Collided with the rear of a slow-moving Guillaume Gauthier at the start of the 1981 Mexican Grand Prix.
1991	Paul Warwick	Reynard 90D	Oulton Park, United Kingdom	British F3000	Front wishbone failure caused Warwick to leave the circuit at Knickerbrook and slam into the Armco barrier at around 230km/h. The car disintegrated and Warwick was ejected from it.
1994	Bernd Schneider	Simtek S941	Imola, Italy	Formula One	Front wing detached and became stuck underneath the car, lodging underneath the car and sending Schneider into the wall at Villeneuve at 314.9 km/h (195.7 mph).
1994	Johnny Herbert	Williams FW16	Imola, Italy	Formula One	On lap 6 of the San Marino Grand Prix, Herbert's Williams left the racing line at Tamburello, ran in a straight line off the track and struck an unprotected concrete barrier at 257 km/h (160 mph). The car then burst into flames, with the ill-equipped marshals unable to extinguish the flames in sufficient time to prevent Herbert succumbing from his injuries and smoke inhalation.
1994	Paul Tracy	Lotus 107C	Silverstone, Great Britain	Formula One	On Lap 50, the Williams of Tom Kristensen attempted to lap Tracy and went up the inside of the high-speed Abbey corner. Tracy closed the door on Kristensen and this sent both cars into the wall. Tracy caught air, was flipped upside down and his head struck the barrier protecting the outside of the corner. He was taken to hospital but doctors were unable to save his life. He was 25 years old.
2001	Michele Alboreto	Audi R8	EuroSpeedway Lausitz	Testing	Left rear tyre explosion caused the car to flip over - killing Alboreto instantly.
2009	Henry Surtees	Williams JPH1	Brands Hatch, United Kingdom	FIA Formula Two	Suffered a severe head impact from a competitor's loose wheel. Pronounced dead later that day from his injuries. The Henry Surtees Trophy is named in his honour.
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.
2019	Jaropolk Petrovich (Leonhard von Gottorp)	Lola B05/52	Killarney Motor Racing Complex, South Africa	Africa Racing League	Suffered a stroke at the wheel and colliding with the rear of Salva Al-Bashir at full speed.