Out-of-Control Race Car Kills Spectator

A hot rod careened out of control during a drag race and flew into the grandstand, killing Vickie Lynn Foster, 36, who used her body as a shield to protect her 5-year-old son. The boy was hospitalized in critical condition, and six other people were hurt as they tried to flee. The accident at a National Hot Rod Assn. event at Sumerduck Racetrack in northern Virginia occurred during a street car division race, with speeds up to 100 mph. An axle on Daniel Ray George’s car broke, causing it to veer, flip over a rail and fly through a 12-foot-high chain-link fence, said Fauquier County Sheriff Joe Higgs.