Johnny Benson “expected to be fine” after Firey Car Crash [PHOTOS]
From the archive: published Jun 14, 2009, 17 years ago. Details may have changed since.
Johnny Benson is in a Grand Rapids, Michigan hospital in serious condition after a horrific crash at Berlin Raceway Saturday night, but hospital staff say he’s “expected to be fine.”
In a statement released to a Grand Rapids TV station, a spokesperson for Spectrum Hospital said that Johnny Benson is “expected to be fine.”
At ISMA the Supermodifieds Race in Marne Michigan Saturday night, Benson’s car made contact with the wheel of another car driven by Larry Lehnert and crashed, bursting into flames. Benson was immediately pulled from the wreckage and the fire was extinguished by safety crews. Benson was then rushed ti hospital with serious but non life threatening injuries.
Larry Lehnert was shaken but not hurt in the crash.