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SWEDESBORO, NJ - Veteran Nascar driver Jason Lefler died after crashing in a sprint car event Wednesday night at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey. According to police, Lefler had to be cut out of his vehicle, and was taken by ambulance to a local trauma center, where he later died from his injuries. Bridgeport Speedway immediately suspended racing for the rest of the night after the accident occurred. Nascar confirmed the death in a statement: "NASCAR extends its thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to the family of Jason Lefler who passed away earlier this evening. For more than a decade,...

BRIDGEPORT, N.J. – NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident Wednesday night in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway. The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series who had the nickname "LefTurn" above the driver's side window on his race cars, was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m., New Jersey State Police said. "NASCAR extends its thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to the family of Jason Leffler who passed away earlier this evening," NASCAR said in a statement. "For more than a decade, Jason was a fierce competitor in our sport...

SWEDESBORO, N.J. (AP) — NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after an accident Wednesday night in a heat race at a dirt car event at Bridgeport Speedway. The 37-year-old Leffler, a two-time winner on the NASCAR Nationwide Series who had the nickname "LefTurn" above the driver's side window on his race cars, was pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m., New Jersey State Police said. "NASCAR extends its thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies to the family of Jason Leffler who passed away earlier this evening," NASCAR said in a statement. "For more than a decade, Jason was a fierce competitor in our...

C-Span's Sunday night hour of "Q&A" today involved an interview with Kevin Leffler, a Michigan CPA who is sinking about $100k of his own money into a documentary which he calls "Shooting Michael Moore". Leffler knew and worked with Moore and says that the public persona Moore touts is nothing like the Moore he knew. His film, from which numerous clips are presented during Q&A, is a takeoff on Moore's "Roger and Me" and portrays Leffler trying to track down and question Moore about many inaccuracies and outright lies he says Moore includes in his various films. The picture Leffler...