![]() ![]() "Land-speed racing is one of the most family-orientated sports there is in the world." "We all have real heavy hearts," said Cook, organizer of Mike Cook's Bonneville Shootout. Wheeler was alive when emergency crews extracted him from the car, but he died about four hours later at the hospital, Cook said. 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 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. ![]() Wheeler died Monday afternoon at Intermountain Medical Center in the Salt Lake City suburb of Murray because of traumatic injuries suffered in the motorcycle accident, hospital spokesman Jess Gomez said. SALT LAKE CITY - Sam Wheeler, a renowned land-speed motorcycle racer, is dead after the high-performance bike he was testing at Utah's famed Bonneville Salt Flats fish-tailed, went airborne and crashed at 200 mph. Land-speed racer Sam Wheeler dies at Utah's Salt Flats You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser
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