Stewart sued in death crash
The family of a young driver struck and killed by Tony Stewart’s car on an upstate New York sprint racing track filed a wrongful- death lawsuit against the NASCAR star Friday. The lawsuit was filed as Stewart returns to Watkins Glen Interna tional on the one- year anniversary of the fatal crash. The lawsuit accuses Stewart of gross negligence, saying he gunned his engine and put his car into a skid as 20- year- old Kevin Ward Jr. walked onto the track after a crash at Canandaigua, N. Y., a year ago. The car struck Ward, and he was killed. A grand jury declined to indict Stewart, who at the time called it “100 per cent an accident.”