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i seen at skagit speedway years ago a sprint car went aroun a car during pushoffs and drove in the back of another pust truck, hurt the truck and the sprint car.

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On track (not mentioned so far) = WoO show canceled in OKC due to wind.

Off track = WoO show canceled in OKC due to Lanny Edwards not letting cars/haulers leave his track.

Both were in the mid/late 80's

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The start of the US 500 at MIS on May 26 1996.

Jimmy Vasser won the first such race in 1996, which was notable for its disastrous start. With the cars lined up in rows of three (the traditional starting formation of the Indy 500), Vasser, on pole, was about to take the green flag at the start, when he was struck by Adrian Fernandez. Fernandez then tagged Bryan Herta, and the resulting accident took out a number of cars. Though ten cars had wrecked out, CART allowed teams to bring out backup cars and made repairs to heavily-damaged cars; this hurt the credibility of CART for allowing DNFs to come back out as though nothing had happened; years earlier Roberto Guerrero, the polesitter for the Indianapolis 500, crashed on the pace lap and was ruled a DNF. With the victory, Vasser won over $1 million and had his likeness inscribed onto the Vanderbilt Cup. In addition, an American flag was waved along with the twin checkered flags to end the race.

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Also saw a dog jump out of a push truck and got on the track during the race in Chico

30 years ago when they were having spectator races at my local track 2 of the cars racing collided with one another. One was a US Army vehicle. bet he had fun explaining how THAT accident happened!

At the South Dakota State Fair in 1971, the Huset's club was putting on their annual Super Modified races.

On the last lap of the feature, 2 cars tangled in turn 3 and ended up in the guard rail. Huron was a big 5/8 then, and had a flagstand, but "The Professionals" as they called themselves, were flagging from the track.

It was then the Huset's tradition to run a six lap Trophy Dash for the top 6 finishers in the feature. With 2 cars and 2 wreckers on the track the cars were sent out. After of couple of laps the flagman threw the green with all of the equipement and half a dozen officials still in turn 3. Everybody got slowed down.

UNBELIEVEABLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Early 90's Jimmy Evans took the Motter 71 out of the park in turn 3 at Knoxville 747 style.

Maybe early to mid 80's Ned Frye came though the catch fence on the front stretch at about section J. Luckily no one was standing there at the time.

Back in the 60's at Wilmot, WI, they used to have a race at the end of the night where people could just bring their street cars and race them. Too many beers, too much testerone resulted in a lot of crumple up cars.

Another time, the pace car was parked in the center of the track and was hit by a race car in a heat race.

I-90 Speedway @ Hartford, SD turned a water truck over on its side on the topside in 1 turn approximately 5-6 years ago. Don't know if that's the one your thinking of.

The girl at the Gold Cup in Chico got HIT by Lance Blevins and it was before the start of the B-Main. She flew at least 10 - 15 feet in the air. Lance was putting some heat in the motor entering turn 1 and was flying when he came out of 2 and she was right there, she got clipped by one of the rear tires, forget which one.

I think it may have been the same night but there was a B-Main at Chico during the Gold Cup that only went 2 official laps. A driver (whom I can't remember) from the front row caused the first caution, went to the rear and still transferred due to another 5 or 6 cautions and 3 reds, weirdest thing I'd ever seen at a race. One of the cautions took out 6 or 7 cars from the same lane which is how the guy got back to the front without really having to pass anyone. Dave Blaney had flipped in his heat and was the only big dog in the race and I think Lance may have been the only other regular in it but I wouldn't bet the farm on it. The place was full, somebody must remember it better than moi, it was a Blue Maui night, lol.....