Impact: Stories of Survival — Season 1, Episode 1: Stock Car Smash
Documentary • 60 min • 3 seasons, 30 episodes
Episode synopsis
High speed boat crash; Man scaled when pipe bursts; Luge racer Anne Abernathy crashes; Paramedic hit by racecar
About Impact: Stories of Survival
Impact: Stories of Survival is a documentary television series that premiered in 2002 on and was produced by the Discovery Health Channel. The program is based on life-threatening situations in which the victim experienced a moment of impact. Featuring video of the event, reenactments, and interviews with surgeons, doctors, and the victims, Impact takes its viewers through the full process of the victims impact, treatment and recovery. There is also a segment where a computerized animation shows in detail how the impact affected the victim's body showing how and to what extent bones, organs, veins, etc. were injured.