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Originally Posted by DrFerry
IF the car had not split and separated, then his helmet might have not made it totally through the Armco thereby pinning him underneath it. Some of the 3D animations show this survival cell separation as a sort of hinge point forcing the survival cell through to the other side of the Armco and coming to rest within inches of the gap between the Armco top rail and intact cockpit halo rail.
Squeezing and twisting through such a gap when the cockpit was on its side during a fire with his foot pinned under one of the pedals was truly miraculous IMO.
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Agree that he was lucky the car split at that point through the armco mount and he would have been trapped in the cockpit though with the fire risk reduced but still possible. Indeed the car is designed so that the rear should separate in a serious accident depending on angle of impact and he possibly had more chance of getting out with the separation and fire with even more luck that the barrier did not block his exit completely. Really it was 50/50 either way and he struck lucky through being calm and not panicking.