No one was hurt when a tire flew off a race car and into the parking lot during Sunday's race
Kirkwood’s rear left tire bounced off the track and headed toward the sellout crowd, but it missed spectators in the area and instead landed in a nearby parking lot.
The tire struck the Chevrolet Cruze of Robin Matthews of Indianapolis, the report said, causing significant damage to the vehicle. “I didn’t see it come down,” Matthews told the Indianapolis Star. “I came down and they said, ‘Robin, it’s your car!’ I thought, ‘No.’ I thought somebody was pranking me. It’s a car. It’s fine.”
This is Robin Matthews of Indy. Her white Chevy Cruze she calls “snowball” was the car hit by the wheel that flew over the fence in a crash at
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