Posted on 08/07/2015 4:46:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Kevin Ward Jr. was killed August 9 after he got out of his wrecked sprint car and went to confront Stewart during a yellow flag caution period at Canandaigua Motorsports Park. After one car narrowly missed Ward, Stewart drove by and Ward was struck by the right rear tire of Stewart’s car and slung down the track.
Ward, 20, died of massive blunt trauma as paramedics drove him to a hospital.
His parents, Kevin and Pamela Ward, filed a wrongful death suit asking for unspecified financial compensation. The suit was filed in Lewis County, where the family lives.
Stewart was not criminally charged in the incident. On Friday, Stewart was practicing 175 miles away for a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen International race track on Sunday, an event he skipped last year after Ward was killed. He also skipped the next two NASCAR events.
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I’m sorry they lost a hot headed child, but this is going no where.
It wasn’t an accident.
Guilty.
If I were on the jury, I would have a hard time finding for Ward’s family. The video shows Ward getting out of his car and intentionally walking towards and confronting a moving car.
And not a hypermiling Prius on a public street. This was a race car on an active racetrack.
Kevin Ward Jr. under influence of marijuana when killed by Tony Stewart car, DA says
Stupid behavior for a race car driver.
Hard to win damages if a grand jury won’t indict. Sorry for their loss, but racing is dangerous and even more when you run in traffic.
Sprint cars are the rabid badgers of the racing world. 900 horses carrying less than 1500 lbs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyX3WzqIxo
It was closer to a suicide then it was intentional.
"It wasn’t an accident.Guilty." ... Suicide
Kevin Ward Jr. had enough marijuana in his system to influence his actions
Also might explain why a guy in a black fire suit gets out and walks to the darkest part of the track, to wait for a car, and a limited sight operator, to come around so he could ...shake his fist at him?
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
They lost a child and that I’m sure is a hard thing to bear. But I don’t see
this being ruled in their favor based on the info and lack of indictments. Maybe
a settlement to stop the proceedings is their intent.
Put two hotheads together...bad things are gonna happen. Advantage guy with car.
he gunned the engine
This case is not going anywhere.
The video is inconclusive from the angles I have seen.
Imagine that, accelerating in a race, whodathunk?
The kid got out of his vehicle in the middle of the track and stood in the middle of race traffic.
I’m sorry for the family’s loss, but that’s...as my secular friends say...Darwinism in action.
walking, not lunging. raised hands over head. throttle goosed. spin out wrapped the leg or Ward and death.
Steward guilty.
...manslaughter.
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