NASCAR star Tony Stewart, for whom Ashlea Albertson drove, linked the incident to “road rage.”
Ashlea Albertson, a 24-year-old racecar driver who competed on a Tony Stewart-owned dirt track circuit, died Friday in a car crash away from the track. A native of Greenfield, Ind. — approximately 65 miles north of where the crash occurred — Albertson was 24.In a social media post mourning her loss, Stewart said the fatal incident resulted from “road rage.”
“In the past, I’ve also gotten caught up in road rage,” Stewart, a 52-year-old former NASCAR Cup Series champion,A spokesperson for Tony Stewart Racing did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for additional comment. According to the Indiana State Police, Albertson on Friday was a passenger in a vehicle whose driver became embroiled in a dangerous and ultimately deadly situation involving another driver along a stretch of Interstate 65 in the state’s Jackson County.
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