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I was watching parts of that race and I recall it happened around turn 4. I do not remember if his car got loose, but he went nose first into the wall doing around 160mph. His skull was cracked and killed him almost instantly. The impact shook his head like a rag doll. After his death, that was when NASCAR implemented the "HANS device", a safety support strapped around the neck.

He was blocking for Junior and Michael Waltrip, when Sterling Marlin bumped his car on the left rear, sending Dale into the wall. The accident was inadvertant, Marlin certainly had no malice towards Earnahardt.

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The official cause of Earnhardt's death in the medical examiners autopsy report was listed as "blunt force injuries of the head". It noted, The death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. during an auto race on February 18, 2001, and the subsequent fan outcry helped spark various safety improvements in NASCAR auto racing.

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No way. He would tell you this if he were here. Funny things happen to cars at 200mphs, and when you get over 40 out there at once......... I saw the whole thing. It was an fluke accident. Just like his best friend Neil Bonnett's in one of Dale's cars, at the same track, in the same turn.

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Dale Earnhardt was an American race car driver. On the 18th February 2001 Dale was involved in a last-lap collision at Daytona International Speedway, he was pronounced dead at the Halifax Medical Center at 5:16 PM. The results for his death was blunt force trauma to the head.

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Sterling Marlin got him loose which sent him up into the turn 4 wall and Ken Schrader hit him. Dale died of a basilar skull fracture.

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Dale Sr's cause of death was a basilar skull fracture. Senior never wore a HANS device, which probably would have saved his life on that day.

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If you mean his death, a failed seat belt harness during the crash.

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The cause of Dale Earnhardt Sr were his parents, Ralph and Martha.

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Many say it was a warn seatbelt.

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Sterling Marlin and Kenny Schrader.

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