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MusicMaker · Jun 13, 2013

BRIDGEPORT, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey State Police on Thursday were trying to determine what caused the dirt track crash that killed NASCAR driver Jason Leffler on Wednesday night.

Leffler died after the crash during the first heat at southern New Jersey's Bridgeport Speedway, a dirt track about 15 miles southwest of Philadelphia.

A spectator, Chris Taitt, said he was at the race but looking the other way when the crash occurred. He says Leffler had been in second place, apart from other cars when his car slammed into a wall at the track's fourth turn.

Taitt, 40, of West Deptford, said the wing on the car was "flattened like a pancake," and the seat appeared to be displaced.

Leffler, 37, a native of Long Beach, Calif., has won twice on NASCAR's Nationwide Series and finished in both the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 500, two of car racing's signature events.
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This is especially sad since he was a single father and its so close to Father's day

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Candace · Jun 14, 2013

I found this really shocking as well. I now feel even sadder due to the coincidence of him being a father (which I just found out here) and Father's Day.

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