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* In 1994, legendary [[Formula One]] champion Ayrton Senna died on the first laps of the San Marino Grand Prix. His steering wheel broke just as he was about to make a dangerous curve, and he went straight into a wall - though what really killed him wasn't the crash, but a wheel's suspension frame that flew and hit Senna's head. He was even airlifted to a hospital, but didn't resist (and since that same weekend a racer died and another broke his nose and arm crashing during practice, FIA ordered redesigns of the track and more investments on car safety).

** The history of Formula One is filled with the deaths of drivers during races. Revolutions in safety have meant that no drivers have been killed during an event since Ayrton Senna.

* [[Owen Hart]] fell to his death in the Kemper Arena during WWE's ''Over the Edge'' pay-per-view show in 1999, while preparing for a big stunt entrance that would see him, as his recently-revived [[Hulk Hogan]] parody The Blue Blazer, being lowered in from the rafters. He had done so in a rehearsal earlier in the day with no problems, but unlike [[~~Wrestler/~~Sting|Sting]]'s harness circa 1997, which had multiple connection points and a full vest that took a good amount of time to remove once he actually landed, Owen's contraption was held with [[No OSHA Compliance|a single release point around his chest]] that could be (and probably was) triggered simply by breathing too deeply. Regardless, he ended up falling nearly seventy-eight feet while being lowered, where his chest impacted the top rope. He managed to survive until arriving at the hospital, but was soon after pronounced dead from a severed blood vessel near the heart.

* [[Owen Hart]] fell to his death in the Kemper Arena during WWE's ''Over the Edge'' pay-per-view show in 1999, while preparing for a big stunt entrance that would see him, as his recently-revived [[Hulk Hogan]] parody The Blue Blazer, being lowered in from the rafters. He had done so in a rehearsal earlier in the day with no problems, but unlike [[Sting (wrestling)|Sting]]'s harness circa 1997, which had multiple connection points and a full vest that took a good amount of time to remove once he actually landed, Owen's contraption was held with [[No OSHA Compliance|a single release point around his chest]] that could be (and probably was) triggered simply by breathing too deeply. Regardless, he ended up falling nearly seventy-eight feet while being lowered, where his chest impacted the top rope. He managed to survive until arriving at the hospital, but was soon after pronounced dead from a severed blood vessel near the heart.

** Morbidly and sadly ironic in that, rumor has it, he was ''supposed'' to fall and look like a doofus as part of the work, except from a much shorter and safer height. Sadly, to accomplish this, a harness without safety backups had to be used, otherwise the stunt could not be performed properly.

** This led to a series of disputes and lawsuits between [[Vince McMahon]]'s company and the Hart family, who had previously been some of the most loyal employees for him, going back to when his father owned the company.