Danny Sullivan survives head-on collision

Indianapolis 500 winner and 1988 CART World Series champion Danny Sullivan appears to be OK after a potentially devastating road-car crash on Feb. 10 in California.

Sullivan, the 1985 Indy 500 champion and who scored 17 wins in a CART career that spanned 12 seasons, on the morning of Feb. 10 left his Monterey, Calif., home at about 8:15 a.m. Pacific time. Shortly thereafter, another driver–a German tourist who was texting at the time and driving on the wrong side of the undivided two-lane road, according to someone close to Sullivan who spoke with Autoweek–struck him head-on in a rental car. The crash totaled Sullivan's new Audi R8 GT supercar, but both drivers walked away.

However, Sullivan on Wednesday told Autoweek–ironically, via text–that he is bruised badly and was in a hospital awaiting a CT scan to check for more serious consequences of the accident. AutoWeek