HANS device is a black, U-shaped piece of equipment used in the sport of auto racing to minimize head trauma during a crash. Jeff Gordon used this HANS device during a race at the Las Vegas Motor ...

Car and Driver looks at the physical numbers behind the device: in a 40g head-on collision, a HANS device can reduce total neck load by about 75 percent, to less than half the force of the injury ...

Could the HANS device have saved Dale Earnhardt’s life? To get a better idea of all the variables that were at play, let’s take a rather painful trip down memory lane to February 18, 2001 ...