List of fatal Champ Car accidents
- List of fatal Champ Car accidents
This is a list of Champ Car fatal accidents, which consists of all the drivers who died during a Champ Car race meeting.
Gordon Smiley was the first person to die while driving a Champ Car in May 1982, and the last was Greg Moore, who died in October 1999. Two drivers died in the 1980s and four in the 1990s.
By year
Other fatalities
*Lyle Kurtenbach (May 24, 1987): Spectator; Fatally injured by a wheel which flew off the car of Tony Bettenhausen and was hit into the stands by Roberto Guerrero, at the Indy 500 The race was sanctioned by USAC.
*Jean Patrick Hein (September 2, 1990): Track corner worker; Fatally injured after being struck by the car of Willy T. Ribbs during the Molson Indy Vancouver.
*Gary Avrin (July 14, 1996): Track corner worker; Fatally injured when struck by the crashing car of Jeff Krosnoff at the Molson Indy Toronto.
*Kenneth Fox, Michael Terry Tautkus, Sheryl Ann Laster (July 26, 1998): Spectators; Fatally injured by a wheel which flew off the car of Adrian Fernandez during the U.S. 500 at Michigan International Speedway.
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