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Tony Stewart Video - GRAPHIC
Aug 10, 2014, 3:00 AM
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Link below to incident but be warned it's a little graphic at the end. If other witnesses tell this same story, Stewart is headed to jail:
"After a yellow flag, Ward excited his vehicle and confronted Stewart on foot, while Stewart remained in his car. As Graves [witness] explains further, Stewart then gunned the engine and tragedy struck.
“I know Tony could see him. I know how you can see out of these cars. When Tony got close to him, he hit the throttle. When you hit a throttle on a sprint car, the car sets sideways. It set sideways, the right rear tire hit Kevin, Kevin was sucked underneath and was stuck under it for a second or two and then it threw him about 50 yards.”
http://www.inquisitr.com/1402798/breaking-story-tony-stewart-kills-competing-driver-on-new-york-dirt-track/
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Re: Tony Stewart Video - GRAPHIC
Aug 10, 2014, 3:38 AM
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Video has been removed. Sad story all the way around
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Re: Tony Stewart Video - GRAPHIC
Aug 10, 2014, 6:13 AM
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It sure is. Just awful
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Re: I just watched it. Looks VERY suspicious.***
Aug 10, 2014, 8:44 AM
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Looks to me that at the very least he was trying to scare the guy which in my opinion makes it no accident. (But don't think it necessarily equals murder)
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Ultimate Tiger [33411]
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The car before Tony got by fine - with tons of room to spare
Aug 10, 2014, 9:00 AM
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Seemed to be tons of room on the track - why was Tony way up there ?
But the guy was trotting down closer to Tony's car as Tony was coming by.
Tony punched it - maybe to throw dirt on the guy ?
But he wasn't past him . . . brutal.
The guy taking the video seemed to maybe have a "Tony just hit that guy" opinion as an "as it is happening" opinion.
Tony's history will CERTAINLY work against him in this deal. Makes it VERY questionable.
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Orange Phenom [14969]
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There was a lot of room to the bottom of the track and it
Aug 10, 2014, 9:04 AM
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also looks like Tony was going a lot faster than the driver ahead of him. I really doubt Tony meant to hit him, but it still looks incredible stupid and reckless and 100% avoidable.
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Re: There was a lot of room to the bottom of the track and it
Aug 10, 2014, 9:18 AM
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Looks like it could/should have been avoided on both ends. Looked like the kid walked halfway down the track and Tony drove halfway up it. Unfortunately one man lost his life because of it.
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Re: The car before Tony got by fine - with tons of room to spare
Aug 10, 2014, 12:25 PM
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Those type of race cars are direct drive, no transmissions. When you hit the gas, all power goes directly to the wheels in an instant. Tony was trying to spray him with dirt I personally believe, and the rear end spun around quicker than Tony intended, and to quick for Ward to move. If those race cars had fenders over the wheels, Ward would be alive today. I diffidently don't like Tony Stewart and his forever Bully tactics on the race track. But in no way shape or form do I believe Tony tried or meant to hurt or kill the Ward kid. Both are at fault, and I believe it will be ruled as an unintentional accident. Tragic as it is, IMO it was an accident. I don't see any court proving that Tony had malice or forethought. They would have to prove that Tony knew that Ward was going to chase after him on foot when he came back around. And there is no way Tony could have knew that as a matter of fact. I do think that there should be a stop to all hot head drivers getting out their cars running after another driver. Also an end should be enforced on drivers that run into each other after an incident occurs in the race. Suspend them for quarter, half, or full seasons, it will stop.
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Re: Tony Stewart Video - GRAPHIC
Aug 10, 2014, 7:46 AM
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That's awful. Video was still on there towards the bottom.
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Re: Tony Stewart Video - GRAPHIC
Aug 10, 2014, 7:52 AM
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Nobody could possibly say that tony could see him, the guy had a black racing suit on with a black helmet and the track was not well lit. And trust me when I say I'm not a tony stewart fan. I use to help a low budget nationwide team and on two different occasions I asked him for his autograph and he wouldn't sign anything. The guy is a jerk, I don't care what anybody says. But I wouldn't think he would purposely run over somebody. When you jump out of your car and onto the track your putting yourself in danger. Just one of those freak things.
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I don't care for Stewart either; I've always thought he was
Aug 10, 2014, 8:20 AM
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a jerk too. But there is nothing in that video that indicates to me that he did this intentionally. The whole thing of drivers jumping out of their cars to confront other drivers is ridiculous, and I think it's a case of "monkey-see, monkey-do" gone wrong here. In Nascar, drivers who confront other drivers in this manner ALWAYS make ESPN highlights, and I'm sure this kid was just emulating what he's seen his heroes do and it cost him his life. Very sad.
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Opinion revised. After further review (with sound turned up)
Aug 10, 2014, 9:20 AM
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it appears that Stewart guns it just as he gets up to the other driver standing on the track. Plus, as others have pointed out, they were under caution, so it's not like Stewart was going so fast that he didn't have a chance to avoid this. Insanely reckless at best, which I would think certainly warrants criminal charges.
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Don't think he meant to hit him, i think he was trying to
Aug 10, 2014, 9:05 AM
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throw dirt on him or something, but after seeing the video there's absolutely no way i would believe that Tony didn't see him.
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Re: Don't think he meant to hit him, i think he was trying to
Aug 10, 2014, 9:09 AM
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I agree, definitely trying to throw dirt on him and punched it, guy stepped too close. Terrible, but don't think u can charge him w murder.
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Track was under caution when he punched the gas***
Aug 10, 2014, 9:14 AM
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Re: Don't think he meant to hit him, i think he was trying to
Aug 10, 2014, 9:32 AM
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If you're a driver and you get wrecked , DON'T get out of your car and walk in the middle of the track with cars going by you. That's just asking for something horrific . I agree that this could have been avoided and it's 100% an accident.
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So we have a lot of different opinions.
Aug 10, 2014, 9:36 AM
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Some believe it was an accident; Others that he was trying to throw dirt on him but still accident, and then some think it was intentional and grounds for manslaughter charges.
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TS swerved into the guy on purpose
Aug 10, 2014, 9:43 AM
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I say manslaughter charge is very possible
The car is revved and does a sharp right before it hits the man. Looks intentional to me.
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I agree that this kid should not have gotten out of his car
Aug 10, 2014, 9:42 AM
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and attempted to confront Stewart in this manner, even though he was just emulating exactly what he sees his heroes do on tv. It's stupid when NASCAR drivers do it, and it was stupid for him to do it. Still, this may have been unavoidable, and just because the kid made an irresponsible, stupid move, it doesn't excuse what Stewart may have done, either. Stewart may have unnecessarily caused the death of another human being because of his own hot-headedness and/or recklessness.
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Re: Don't think he meant to hit him, i think he was trying to
Aug 10, 2014, 10:08 AM
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It looks to me as if the other guy stepped right into the side of Tonys car. I don't know if he didn't realize how close he actually was to the oncoming car or what but I don't see anything that looks as if tony intentionally swerved to hit the guy. Could he have been lower on the track yes but the guy was in the middle of the track it's not like he was standing against the wall. Also the gunning of the engine could have been tony trying at the last minute to get the car out of the way because he saw he was going to hit him. I could care less for tony Stewart but no one is going to intentionally run over someone standing on the track no matter how mad they are. It's simply a tragic result of multiple bad decisions on both drivers part that c
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Re: Tony Stewart Video - GRAPHIC
Aug 10, 2014, 8:53 AM
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That guys parents forgot to tell him to look both ways
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The guy in front of Stewart almost hit him and then the guy
Aug 10, 2014, 9:25 AM
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took another half step down. It looks like it was in a curve. The car in front of Stewart could have obstructed his vision. I dont see where the "he punched it" is coming from. The car was across the track from where the camera was. Any engine noise heard on the camera probably came from a car closer to the camera. Now...I dont know ##### about racing....so maybe theres some nuances I'm not familiar with that are apparent in the video....but a driver shouldnt expect to encounter a pedestrian halfway down the track from the wall where the wrecked car is. The guy had to dodge the car in front of Stewart. He should have realized he was in the wrong place at that point.
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Orange Phenom [14969]
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If you watch a video with decent audio you can hear him
Aug 10, 2014, 9:30 AM
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punch it just before his cars enters the frame.
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But how can you tell it was his car? It could have been any
Aug 10, 2014, 9:44 AM
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car on that track heard on that crappy camera. You said you heard him punch it before his car came into the picture? It didnt appear(and I could be wrong) that he was accelerating. How in hades can it be determined that the car that revved the engine was his?
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I don't know, but it can't simply be dismissed as an
Aug 10, 2014, 9:52 AM
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unavoidable accident without further investigation given the fact that an engine can be heard revving at the exact instant Stewart makes contact with the other driver.
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Well an engine revs, Tony enters the frame, Tony's car gets
Aug 10, 2014, 10:06 AM
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a bit sideways presumably because he just revved his engine, and then the guy gets clipped.
Was the other guy an idiot for running onto the track? Yes. Did Tony mean to hit him? Seriously doubt it. Was Tony being a hotheaded ####### that turned an avoidable situation into a deadly tragedy? Certainly looks that way to me.
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I didnt see the car get sideways till after the back tire
Aug 10, 2014, 10:12 AM
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goes over the guy. Running over a human body would do that to a car. I'm not saying Stewart is innocent. But we need a better video.
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Re: The guy in front of Stewart almost hit him and then the guy
Aug 10, 2014, 9:31 AM
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I think if it was any driver other than Tony people would assume it was an accident. Tony is a hot head but I've only ever seen him get mad when people BS him. He put this kid in the wall so I don't see why he would be angry with him.
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No telling what Stewart was thinking - who can think like
Aug 10, 2014, 10:14 AM
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an over-the-top angry person that has shown INCREDIBLY poor judgement in the past.
The guy has put millions of dollars at risk in the past because a cameraman was doing his job or one of another half dozen things that Stewart has gone ape over. MILLIONS of dollars.
You know Stewart has a HUGE ego . . . maybe some snot-nosed kid trying to show him up in some podunk race . . .
"does this kid not realize who I am . . . I'll show him who I am - scare the crap outta him" . . . Oppppsss - another ridiculous moment of Stewart not being able to control himself - a horrifically tragic moment this time.
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