NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart is in Iowa this week. A random encounter in a parking lot Tuesday night led to a donation from Stewart to a family grieving after the loss of three brothers, all under the age of 16, in a traffic crash.
Last Thursday the Iowa State Patrol said a truck collided with a car being driven by 16-year-old Jamie Singletary. Both vehicles ended up in a ditch and Singletary, along his brothers, 13-year-old Carson and 10-year-old Christian, died. Friends of the family started fund raising efforts to help the family pay for funeral costs and other expenses.
Stewart is in Knoxville this week for the sprint car Knoxville Nationals. The NASCAR driver owns several entries but is not racing himself. Stewart has not raced in a sprint car since last year when an incident at a local short track in New York claimed the life of another driver. That family filed a wrongful death lawsuit in a New York court last week in difference to the fact that after an investigation law enforcement found no reason to file any charges against Stewart in what was determined to be an accident. MORE>>>
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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