Locals react to race car tragedy
GARNER, N.C. (WTVD) -- Things were quiet today at the Wake County Speedway, the quarter-mile asphalt racetrack in Garner.
But the track's president and former driver Adam Resnick told ABC11 that a race car tragedy in upstate New York Saturday night should reinforce an important rule in racing: stay with your car after a crash.
Sprint car driver Kevin Ward Jr. was struck and killed during that Saturday race after he climbed from his car and was on the track.
Tony Stewart, one of the biggest names in NASCAR, was behind the wheel of the vehicle that struck Ward.
Resnick is convinced Stewart could not have avoided hitting Ward.
"I've met Tony Stewart," said Resnick. "I've known people who have worked with him. I just can't believe that anybody would hurt another individual. Not that we don't get mad sometimes, not that we don't show our aggression or aggravation sometimes. I just really believe that it was an accident."
Resnick believes dirt from the track and the darkness of the nighttime race could have made visibility a major factor in the deadly impact.
