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Cope OK After Hard Crash
Lee Montgomery
Staff Writer
RICHMOND, Va. – Derrike Cope was involved in a scary crash Friday night during the Funai 250 NASCAR Busch Series race at Richmond International Raceway, suffering a suffering a
broken right scapula and a broken left fibula but otherwise escaping serious injury.
Cope was taken by ground to Memorial Regional Medical Center, where X-rays found the injuries. Dr. Stephen Kramer, the attending physician in the infield care center, said Cope was awake and alert when he left the track.
Cope, the 1990 Daytona 500 winner, slammed the wall in Turn 1 on Lap 68 after he sailed into the turn without slowing down. Cope’s car did not leave any skid marks before it hit the wall, perhaps an indication it didn’t have any brakes.
Rescue workers pulled an apparently unconscious Cope out of his car after it stopped at the exit of Turn 2. Cope lay on the asphalt while workers tended to him before he was put on a backboard and finally a stretcher to be loaded into an ambulance.
Replays showed Cope’s head flopping around inside the car as it rode the outside wall in Turns 1 and 2.
NASCAR red-flagged the race on Lap 74 while crews cleaned up the debris.
Cope was driving for Jay Robinson Racing, a team he joined last week at Darlington Raceway.
Cope OK After Hard Crash
Lee Montgomery
Staff Writer
RICHMOND, Va. – Derrike Cope was involved in a scary crash Friday night during the Funai 250 NASCAR Busch Series race at Richmond International Raceway, suffering a suffering a
broken right scapula and a broken left fibula but otherwise escaping serious injury.
Cope was taken by ground to Memorial Regional Medical Center, where X-rays found the injuries. Dr. Stephen Kramer, the attending physician in the infield care center, said Cope was awake and alert when he left the track.
Cope, the 1990 Daytona 500 winner, slammed the wall in Turn 1 on Lap 68 after he sailed into the turn without slowing down. Cope’s car did not leave any skid marks before it hit the wall, perhaps an indication it didn’t have any brakes.
Rescue workers pulled an apparently unconscious Cope out of his car after it stopped at the exit of Turn 2. Cope lay on the asphalt while workers tended to him before he was put on a backboard and finally a stretcher to be loaded into an ambulance.
Replays showed Cope’s head flopping around inside the car as it rode the outside wall in Turns 1 and 2.
NASCAR red-flagged the race on Lap 74 while crews cleaned up the debris.
Cope was driving for Jay Robinson Racing, a team he joined last week at Darlington Raceway.
