Craven Morehead

Mike Conway driving the Dad's Root Beer sponsored car ran into the IZOD car driven by Ryan Hunter-Reay as the IZOD car ran out of gas in the middle of the 3rd turn on the final lap. Conway had no where to go. It launched him and his car hit the catch fence. Luckily he only sustained a broken leg and a compression fracture of one vertebra. He had surgery to repair his leg and will be in a back brace for three months. Hunter-Reay was not injured in this accident although requires surgery to repair a ligament in his thumb that was torn earlier in the race when his car was hit slightly in the pits. Both drivers are exceptionally lucky. Two spectators were slightly injured by debris.