Mechanical Problem Caused Fatal New Jersey Race Car Crash
New Jersey state police say a mechanical problem is to blame for the dirt-track racing crash that killed NASCAR driver Jason Leffler last week.
The state police released some findings Friday from its not-yet-complete report on the June 12 crash at Bridgeport Speedway in Logan Township.
The report finds that Leffler was not able to turn as he came out of the fourth turn and spun out, slamming into the concrete wall along the side of the track.
The report does not say how fast Leffler was going, but says cars in the race were averaging 135 mph and hitting 150 mph on straightaways.
Blunt-force neck injuries are cited as his cause of death.
The 37-year-old Leffler was a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
Copyright 2026 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Popular Today
- Warren, Hawley Press Insurers Over Closed, Unpaid Claims
- Before the Nuclear Verdict: Rethinking How Liability Claims Are Managed
- Agentic Intelligence for Claims Dominates New Tech Launches
- Will California’s New Smoke Claims Law Create a Recovery Bottleneck?
Popular This Month
- The Nation’s Insurance Laboratory: What Liability Trends in California Mean for the Rest of the Country
- New Corgi, Liberate, VERVE Claims Tech. Do We Need New Acronyms?
- Severe Convective Storms: Risk, Field Reality and the Path to Resilience
- Credit Acceptance Reaches $710M Predatory Auto Lending Settlement With Most States