time takes you 100 yards. dan wheldon was going 220 miles an hour. he had no time to stop. play this, this is what dan wheldon was looking at in the seconds before the crash. you can see him there. he s a bit behind the pack. he s in the 11th lap. you can see the crash as he gets up and over the car over here. play the second video. we have dan wheldon s car is spot shadowed through this thing. he goes through this thing, 220 miles an hour. he goes up in the air. the car right now is in the air. it s going in the air. there are three separate cars on fire in the air upside down at the same time. the car is still in the air. it strikes another car as it flies through before finally strike the safety wall on the
outside, flipping over and into flames. dan wheldon said before the race he wasn t sure if he had enough speed to compete in this. but one of his colleagues dario franchitti said he thought the speeds were too fast. i said advice is not a suitable track. i said this is not a suitable track. one small mistake and from everybody and it s a massive thing. they talked about the cars. you have got four widened cars. this is the las vegas raceway. it s a mile shorter than the indy 500 raceway. they had one more car. there is very little room for error. see how tight the corners are? in the past 14 years they have had 7 deaths. formula one has had one death. look at formula one track. you will see how much more space
irwin family car. with the irwin s consent. yesterday i flew to missouri and sat down for a one-on-one with lisa irwin s parents. debra bradley and jeremy irwin were very open including one many people are wondering. did they kill, hurt or sell their own baby. did you kill little lisa? no. megyn: do you believe she is still alive? absolutely. megyn: did you hurt your baby? no. megyn: would you ever hurt your baby? absolutely not. megyn: do you have any idea who may have been involved in her disappearance? no. megyn: do you believe she was kidnapped? yes. megyn: did you sell your baby? no, no, no.
megyn: welcome back. new details on one of the worst race car tragedies ever. now answers on how this crash turned so deadly. i m megyn kelly. but first, a chain reaction accident at the las vegas motor speedway sent a car slamming through the air before it turned into a fireball after it slammed into the wall. dan died at hospital hours later. trace? reporter: i want to take to you this crash of dan wheldon bit by bit. if you are on if the freeway driving 60 miles per hour, you need to stop, reaction time stop