
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 7, 1995                   TAG: 9505080110
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: E7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: COLUMBIA                                 LENGTH: Short

3 KILLED IN ACCIDENT AT VIRGINIA DRAGSTRIP

Three people were killed and six injured, two critically, when a car went out of control Saturday and ran into the crowd at a rural dragstrip, state police said.

Cumberland County Sheriff Claude B. Meinhard said the wreck occurred around 3:45 p.m. He said those in critical condition were flown to hospitals in Richmond and Charlottesville.

Meinhard said the unnamed dragstrip off Virginia 610 in the northwest corner of the county was playing host to a ``Bodacious Monster Truck'' show and mud drag racing. He said there was not a lot of mud on the track at the time of the wreck.

Glen Hicks, of the Old Dominion Four-Wheel Drive Club which sponsored the event, said a late model car was racing against the clock down the 200-yard track when the driver lost control. The car went through a guard rail and fence before plowing into the crowd.

Hicks said the driver of the car, identified only as a 50-year-old Mississippi man, was not injured.

Keywords:
AUTO RACING FATALITY

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