Larry Mann was an American stock car driver

Auto racing

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 born in onkers, New York. Mann was the first driver to be killed in a NASCAR

NASCAR

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 Grand National race; he died from a pulmonary hemorrhage

Pulmonary hemorrhage

Pulmonary hemorrhage is an acute bleeding from the lung, especially in the upper respiratory tract and the endotracheal tube. When evident clinically, the condition is usually massive, associated with bleeding in other sites as well as more than one third of the lungs...

 caused by a crash at Langhorne Speedway

Langhorne Speedway

Langhorne Speedway was an automobile racetrack in Middletown Township, Bucks County, near the borough of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a northern suburb of Philadelphia....

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NASCAR career

He participated in six races in the 1952 season. Overall, after his appearance in the 9th race of the season, Mann began racing more commonly after the 19th race, appearing in every other event; his best finish (11th) came at Monroe County Fairgrounds in Rochester, New York

Rochester, New York

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Death

Mann was killed during the 27th race of the 1952 season, which had been taking place in Langhorne, Pennsylvania

Langhorne, Pennsylvania

Langhorne is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,622 at the 2010 census.The name "Langhorne" is used broadly to describe the majority of surrounding Middletown Township, which for the most part uses Langhorne's zip code of 19047...

. On the 211th lap, he crashed through a fence at the track, thereby flipping his Hudson Hornet. After being rushed to Nazareth Hospital in nearby Philadelphia

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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, he died in the evening of a pulmonary hemorrhage and massive head wounds. Mann had been defying a superstition

Superstition

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 among NASCAR drivers by painting his vehicle green.http://nascar.digital-mind.net/trivia.html

Mann would become the first of three drivers to be killed at Langhorne within five years; Frank Arford and John McVitty

John McVitty

John McVitty was a NASCAR Grand National driver from Mamaroneck, New York, USA. During his two-year NASCAR career, McVitty had raced in eleven races with three finished in the top ten and 1382 laps of experience under his belt - the equivalent of . McVitty's total earning were considered to be $800...

 also perished while racing at the track in 1954 and 1956, respectively. He is believed to have been the tenth driver to die as a result of racing at the track.

External links

• Career statistics at racing-reference.info