Robert Wickens Reflects on Pocono Accident

Robert Wickens talks to Dale Earnhardt Jr. and co-host Mike Davis about his Pocono accident on this week’s The Dale Jr. Download. At Pocono Raceway, while battling Ryan Hunter-Reay, a crash sent his car into the catchfence violently at a speed of 210 mph. Wickens tries to recall the scattered memories he has of the day, that live in bits and pieces in his mind. The accident resulted in badly fractured legs, arms, hands, ribs, neck, a pulmonary contusion and thoracic spinal fracture. Robert Wickens survived the crash but was now faced with being a paraplegic. Wickens reveals what he knows about the time he spent in an induced coma and the struggle to just survive. He then opens up about the pain he endured from his injuries, both physically and mentally, and the ripple effect its had on so many people in his life.