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TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Racer Michelle "Shelly" Howard may have lost consciousness and been unable to cut the fuel firing the engine of her dragster before it flipped over and shot backward, killing her and her son.
During a Saturday night test run, Howard's rear-engine dragster suffered a "blowover," where all four wheels left the surface, Tulsa Raceway Park said Friday in a statement.
Howard, 59, apparently took her foot off the accelerator when the car went airborne at the 1/8-mile mark on the track.
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