Newspaper The Southern (Carbondale, IL, United States), issue of 22 August 2005, page 1, by Nicole Sack. Newspaper Du Quoin Evening Call (Perry County, IL, United States), issue of 22 August 2005, page 1, by John H. Louis, MO, United States), issue of 21 August 2005, by Joel Currier with contribution from Bill Bryan. Louis, MO, United States), issue of 21 August 2005, by William Lamb. Brown, third edition, first printing, November 2003, America's Speedways, Comstock Park, MI, United States, ISBN 0-93, page 262. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007.īook "The History of America's Speedways - Past & Present", by Allan E.The Roznowski family and at least one of the injured persons started a legal action against Beatiee and the raceway owners. The two men often visited the track together. Jeff had been dating Roznowski's seventeen-year-old daughter, Jami, for about three years. Jeff Conner was survived by his mother Sherry and sister Jennifer he played football at Du Quoin High School and was getting ready to go to college to become a police officer. He was survived by wife Pat and four daughters, Christina, Elizabeth, Jami and Katelynn. He was also the maintenance supervisor for the Du Quoin School District. The racing program was cancelled after the crash.ĭonald Roznowski, known by his friends as "Zoomie", was a racing enthusiast and often helped in the pits with fire extinguishers, since he had been volunteering as a firefighter for the city of Du Quoin, for ten years.
The car landed on the top rows of the grandstand, which has about twenty-five rows of bleachers, where a group of spectators was attending the event, Roznowski died at the scene, Conner was pronounced dead at the Crossroads Community Hospital in Mt.
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The driver told police the car's throttle got stuck before the vehicle hit the concrete track wall and vaulted up into the grandstand. Seven others, including Beattie, were injured.Īt the moment of the crash Beatiee was doing a qualification run and was the only competitor on the track. The steel block, late model stock car of Kevin Beattie, a driver from Benton, Illinois, left the track at high speed, flipped high into the air and flew onto the grandstands where the two were sitting. Variant: 1/4-mile dirt oval (1988-present)įifty-one-year-old Donald Roznowski and his daughter's eighteen-year-old boyfriend, Jeff Conner II, both from Du Quoin, IL, were fatally injured during a qualifying run at the Mount Vernon Raceway, in southern Illinois, on 20 August 2005. Death Place: Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, IL, United States
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