Silver Dollar Speedway Champion Dies following Major Race Accident

Photo gives credit to Steven Cox of Silver Dollar Speedway.

Over the weekend, a Silver Dollar Speedway Champion had died after a major vehicle accident that occurred during a hotly contested race.

Accordingly, 20-year-old Tyler Wolf was making his first career start at Calistoga, the largest sprint car track in California.

Incidentally, the said race track stretches a half mile oval dirt path and at any point in the track, cars can reach their highest speeds.

Unfortunately, as Wolf was on his 3rd of the 30-lap event last Saturday, his car went off the track at a wild speed and rammed into the K-rail, the white halls on the outside of most race tracks. Subsequently, the car flipped before it came to a stop.

The paramedics who immediately responded at the scene claimed that Wolf was unconscious but alive when he was transported to St. Helena Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. He died of head traumas, according to the attending physicians who examined him.

Incidentally, Wolf was the second driver sprint car driver from Silver Dollar Speedway to be killed this year. Last June, David Tarter, 30, died from accident in the pits at the Chico race track after a tire and rim he was working on exploded.

As it is, you can never really predict an accident, particularly such vehicle accidents. It always comes unexpected and worse is that it is almost always fatal, if not devastating. Although the law allows victims or their families to recover damages for the injuries and damages, nothing could still replace a life of a lost loved one, a Los Angeles auto accident attorney said sympathetically.