By DAN GELSTON
08/05/12 11:55 PM ET
LONG POND, PA - AUGUST 05: Crew members push the #14 Office
Depot Back to School Chevrolet, driven by Tony Stewart, back to the
garage as rain falls during the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Pennsylvania
400 at Pocono Raceway on August 5, 2012 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania.
LONG POND, Pa. — Lightning strikes at Pocono Raceway after a
rain-shortened NASCAR race Sunday killed one fan and injured nine
others, one critically, racetrack officials said.
Multiple lightning strikes occurred behind the racetrack's
grandstands and outside one of the gates as fans were leaving, Pocono
spokesman Bob Pleban said. It wasn't immediately clear how many of the
fans were actually struck by the lightning itself or were injured by
related jolts.
"Unfortunately, a member of our raceway family here, a fan,
has passed away," Pocono President Brandon Igdalsky said in announcing
the death. He provided no details about the victim but expressed
condolences to his family.
The victim was in or near his car in a parking lot after the race had
ended when lightning struck the car, Monroe County Coroner Bob Allen
said. Bystanders performed CPR on the man, who had gone into cardiac
arrest, until paramedics arrived, Allen said. They took him to the
track's medical facility, where efforts to revive him failed. He was
pronounced dead at a hospital.
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