Brutal Crash Ends Night of Racing at Cornwall Motor Speedway – Danny Lefebvre June 23, 2014

CORNWALL Ontario – Racer Danny Lefebvre was taken to hospital by Helicopter after hitting the wall in a stunning crash at the Cornwall Motor Speedway Sunday night.   Social media was buzzing about the severity of the crash with many speculating the worse; but as of press time no information regarding Mr. Lefebvre’s condition has been confirmed.

Via Facebook;

• Dave Keenan Bad crash at track??

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  Taylor Gougeon Yes poor guy 

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  Liz Allikas hes alive,

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  Liz Allikas was just airlifted to ottawa

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  Taylor Gougeon How do you know?

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  Brittanie George Allikas I WAS THERE. i seen it!

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  Taylor Gougeon I was tooooooo

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  Taylor Gougeon But they put the red blanket over his car and that means they died usually… But I keep seeing so much different shit don’t know what to believe just gonna wait for the news tomorrow ^

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  Brittanie George Allikas well he’s back somehow lol I seen his girlfriend and I believe his mother at the hospital.. they were crying but the helicopter came so Idk.. 
  we will find out in the news paper

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  Taylor Gougeon You were at the hospital?

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  Brittanie George Allikas Yeah I was lol

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  Taylor Gougeon I was at the speedway when it happened, but whoa that’s crazy hopefully he’s gonna be okay! But the dumb bitch at the speedway told me he was dead.. And she worked there fuck people are dumb

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  Brittanie George Allikas yeah some people open there mouth before they actually know what the fuck is going on. Can;t just assume someone is dead. that’s fucked up

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  Taylor Gougeon Yeah, but I think he was dead yoh.. Cause they were resuscitating him on the ground and you could see at first and then they pulled the tow truck in front of it so No one could see!!

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  Brittanie George Allikas maybe they revived him ?

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  Taylor Gougeon That’s the only explanation, because they sent him in the Ambulance thinking he wouldn’t make it cause he wasn’t breathing 

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  Brittanie George Allikas they probably revived him at the hospital

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  Taylor Gougeon Well I’m glad ! Thank god. Happy for his girlfriend couldn’t imagine what she was going through!

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  Brittanie George Allikas tons of trauma thats for sure..

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  Taylor Gougeon Every racer knows the possibilities tho, at least he was doing something he loved doing and something he was good at from what I saw on Facebook he seems to be good he won quite a bit last year 

From the Cornwall Motor Speedway release:

Justin Desrosiers led the way in the 12-lap Mini-Stock feature as the first caution came on lap three for an accident in turn 3. On the restart, Marc Dagenais had a strong start and grab the lead but Desrosiers charged back and gained the top spot with 5 laps to go as yellow came back out. Dagenais was good again on the restart and passed Desrosiers for first. With one lap to go, Danny Lefebvre went off the track and hit the wall in backstretch pretty hard.

Due to serious injury to Lefebvre, the Ontario Provincial Police have taken the track for investigation.

This is the first season under new ownership for the Cornwall Motor Speedway.   Racing was stopped for the evening after the crash.

We will update when further info becomes available.

Photo: Facebook