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Eds: Updates with police statement.
Sprint car driver killed in Wisconsin
NICHOLAS DETTMANN, Associated Press
BEAVER DAM, Wis. (AP) — Sprint car driver Scott Semmelmann
was killed in a wreck during practice for a race Saturday night at Beaver Dam
Raceway.
Beaver Dam Raceway general manager Carolyn Mueller and
Bumper to Bumper IRA Outlaw Sprint Car Series President Steve Sinclair
confirmed the death.
Beaver Dam police later confirmed that a 47-year-old driver
was killed, but did not provide a name.
Semmelmann's car made contact with another car during the
second practice session, flipped three times and hit the outside concrete wall.
The 47-year-old Semmelmann, from Brookfield, was racing for the first time this
season.
"This incident appears to be (a) tragic accident at
this time," the police statement said.
The race was canceled.
Beaver Dam Raceway is a 0.33-mile clay oval about 75 minutes
northwest of Milwaukee. Mueller said it was the first on-track fatality at the
track since the facility re-opened in 1993.
Last month, Kevin Ward Jr. was killed in a sprint car race
at a dirt track in upstate New York when he left his car and was struck by a
car driven by NASCAR star Tony Stewart.
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