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Savage joked with medical personnel after the wreck, and was expected to live when taken to Methodist Hospital and for some time thereafter. However, he died in the hospital 33 days after the accident. [2] [3] [4] The true cause of his death remains a point of dispute.
Dr. Steve Olvey, Savage's attending physician (and later CART's director of medical affairs), claimed in his book Rapid Response that the real cause of death was complications related to contaminated plasma. [45] Olvey claimed that Savage contracted hepatitis B from a transfusion, causing his liver to fail.
In 2006, Steve Olvey, who tended to Savage at the circuit medical center, wrote Savage's death may have been from contaminated plasma from a blood transfusion (contraction of hepatitis B which caused liver failure). [73] Angela Savage, Swede's daughter, has gone on record to say that the cause of death was lung failure. [74] Armando Teran: Team ...
Swede Savage (USA) [93] [note 19] May 30, 1973 Patrick Racing: Eagle – Offenhauser TC "STP Oil Treatment" Race Gordon Smiley (USA) [95] May 15, 1982 USAC: Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Indianapolis 500: Bob Fletcher: March 81C – Cosworth: Qualifying Jim Hickman (USA) [96] [note 20] July 31, 1982 CART: Wisconsin State Fair Park: Provimi Veal ...
Roger McCluskey (Lindsey Hopkins Jr.) Third. Lloyd Ruby (Commander Racing Team) The 1973 Pocono 500, the 3rd running of the event, was held at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, July 1, 1973. Branded as the 1973 Schaefer 500 for sponsorship reasons, the race was won by A. J. Foyt who passed Roger McCluskey on the last lap.
Donohue announced that he would retire from racing after the 1973 Can-Am season. In addition, the horrific events at the 1973 Indianapolis 500 and the subsequent death of his friend, Swede Savage, pushed him to quit.
Smiley died instantly from massive trauma inflicted by the severe impact. His death was the first at Indy since 1973 when Art Pollard and Swede Savage were killed and, to date, the last driver to die during qualifying. Smiley's funeral was held on May 20, 1982, and he was buried in his birth location in Nebraska.
After two days of rain delays, the race was held Wednesday May 30. On his 58th lap, just after a pit stop, Savage lost control coming out of turn four and hit the inside wall. The car was demolished and caught fire, burning the full fuel load of nearly 75 gallons. Savage was taken to the hospital with relatively minor injuries but serious burns.