Quote: "A car is much safer on the street with a cage or a bar. I don't know where this wives tale came from. Put padding on the bars." 5. There are many circumstances having a proper cage adds safety for the driver in an accident, but striking ones unhelmeted head on a cage has huge negative consequences, padded or not.
I lost my good buddy in his 25.5 street car with a funny car cage when a lady T boned him when she went through a red light. The impact of the funny car cage on his noggin' caused brain trauma and his death was the cause of his brain swelling with blood from the impact.
Sorry about your friend .... BUT there are deaths today with all the safety stuff... there are deaths at the track with all the bars and pads... you will NEVER eliminate all of them.... I use the SFI pads in my car... no I dont need them.. the cheap pads would have worked... but they are way too soft
I lost my good buddy in his 25.5 street car with a funny car cage when a lady T boned him when she went through a red light. The impact of the funny car cage on his noggin' caused brain trauma and his death was the cause of his brain swelling with blood from the impact. 
