The Lincoln County dirt racetrack where an accident Friday night sent a car sailing into the crowd will hold races again this Friday. A spokesman for Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center said three people were brought there with non-life-threatening injuries. Ponderosa Speedway race director Brad Ferguson said the car came within a foot of him.
“I just seen the car coming, and then once it flipped up on to the top of the fence like that, I really didn't for about two seconds think that it actually happened because, you know, going to over 250 racetracks across 23 states for the past 40 years. I've never seen nothing happen like that.”
Ferguson said they’re raising the chain-link fence and adding new fencing down the backside. He says they’re also moving the driver team areas where the accident happened to other portions of the track.
“We contacted a lot of the drivers we could get a hold of and we went to the racetrack the next night, into another county here in Kentucky, and walked around, talked to the drivers, and asked them what their opinions was on it. And 100 percent of our feedback was to race again.”
The driver whose car took down the fence raced again the next night at another track.
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