He remains the last driver fatality in Formula One.
The 4x4 version, however, reported 48 driver fatalities for 271,355 registered vehicles (1.8 per 10,000).
The IIHS states that the small utility class had a total of 366 driver fatalities for 2,144,891 total registered vehicles (1.6 per 10,000).
Driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race; this was the first of two driver fatalities in the 1973 season.
Surprisingly, there were no driver fatalities at this race track even with the extreme banking in the turns.
In all types of crashes, the insurance institute reports, there were 117 driver fatalities per million registered subcompact cars in 2004, the latest year for which statistics are available.
Formula One has not had a driver fatality since.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration of the Department of Transportation, air bags have reduced driver fatalities in frontal crashes by 19 percent.
It was the first driver fatality at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway since Gordon Smiley in 1982.
There has not been a driver fatality in Formula 1 ever since.