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- Updated: July 28, 2016
7:54 PM ET
SALT LAKE CITY — Sam Wheeler, a renowned land-speed motorcycle racer, died Monday after a 200-mph racing accident at Utah’s famous Bonneville Salt Flats. He was 72.
Wheeler died Monday afternoon at Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray due to traumatic injuries suffered in the motorcycle accident, said hospital spokesman Jess Gomez.
Wheeler was going about 200 mph (322 kph) during a test run when the back of the streamliner motorcycle started fish tailing, said Mike Cook, the event organizer who witnessed the incident.
His motorcycle began to slide and then popped into the air and came crashing down on the caged section where Wheeler was seated, Cook said. Wheeler was alive when emergency crews extracted him from the car but died about four hours later at the hospital, Cook said.
“We all have real heavy hearts,” said Cook, organizer of Mike Cook’s Bonneville Shootout. “Land speed …
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