A vehicle being driven by #2-Kurt Busch allegedly made contact with a part-time employee of Lowe’s Motor Speedway on Friday night at a movie premiere. Busch was arriving for the premiere of the Disney movie “Cars” in the infield of Lowe’s. He allegedly made contact with a parking attendant. “Kurt’s vehicle allegedly made contact with this person around the knee area,” said Jerry Gappens, the senior vice president of events for Lowe’s. “He continued working, then later had it checked out and everything was fine.” The unnamed employee also was working at the speedway yesterday. No police report had been filed with the Concord police department as of yesterday afternoon. According to Gappens, Busch met with Lowe’s President H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler to let him know what had happened. Busch had no comment yesterday. Both NASCAR and Lowe’s Motor Speedway have looked into the incident, and both have said they are out of the situation. “All we’re aware of is there was an incident at the premiere, and we’re not involved in it,” NASCAR spokesman Jim Hunter said. “It’s not a NASCAR incident. It’s not in our jurisdiction. The parties involved in it, we’ll leave it to them to resolve it.” Gappens said it was the track’s opinion it was a non-event, and no further action would be taken by the speedway.(Richmond Times Dispatch)
MORE: Kurt Busch accidentally struck a Lowe’s Motor Speedway security guard with his car on his way to Friday night’s premiere of the Disney movie Cars, according LMS senior vice president Jerry Gappens. Gappens said the 2004 Nextel Cup champion was in a police escort to the track when the guard tried to cut off the line. He said a track official inside of Busch’s car told him to keep going, at which time Busch made contact with the knee of the guard. He said the guard completed the final 15 minutes of his shift before going to the track hospital, where he was checked out and cleared. Gappens said the guard returned to work on Saturday.(more at NASCAR.com)(5-28-2006)
