Fuel for Life: IndyCar Driver’s Crash Highlights Need for Remote Blood Bank
When IndyCar veteran James Hinchcliffe hit the wall during a 2015 practice run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a severed artery meant he lost a lot of blood, fast. While he was transported to IU Health Methodist Hospital in time to save his life, he needed several transfusions, a fact that highlighted the need for a blood bank at the track. Thanks to IU Health Foundation’s Rev event, that blood bank is now in place. And Hinchcliffe races to Rev every year.