{"id":20879,"date":"2013-06-21T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20879"},"modified":"2013-06-21T15:49:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T20:49:04","slug":"racer-json-leffle-killed-in-dirt-car-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=20879","title":{"rendered":"Racer Jason Leffler Crash, Mechanical Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0TRENTON, N.J. (AP) &#8211; New Jersey state police say a mechanical problem is to blame for the dirt-track racing crash that killed NASCAR driver Jason Leffler last week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state police released some findings Friday from its not-yet-complete report on the June 12 crash at Bridgeport Speedway in Logan Township.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report finds that Leffler was not able to turn as he came out of the fourth turn and spun out, slamming into the concrete wall along the side of the track.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The report does not say how fast Leffler was going, but says cars in the race were averaging 135 mph and hitting 150 mph on straightaways.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blunt-force neck injuries are cited as his cause of death.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The 37-year-old Leffler was a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>BRIDGEPORT, N.J. (AP) &#8211; NASCAR driver Jason Leffler has died following an accident Wednesday night during a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey. The 37-year-old Leffler was a two-time winner on the Nationwide Series and finished last at Pocono over the weekend, his first Sprint Cup start of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0TRENTON, N.J. (AP) &#8211; New Jersey state police say a mechanical problem is to blame for the dirt-track racing crash that killed NASCAR driver Jason Leffler last week. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The state police released some findings Friday from its not-yet-complete report on the June 12 crash at Bridgeport Speedway in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21565,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions\/21565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}