{"id":50064,"date":"2025-07-31T12:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50064\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:57:08","slug":"nascar-driver-hospitalized-after-horrifying-crash-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50064\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR driver hospitalized after horrifying crash in Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart Friesen, a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver, is lucky to be alive after fracturing his pelvis, breaking a leg and sustaining other injuries in a fiery wreck on a dirt track in Quebec on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old is in a &#8216;tremendous amount of pain,&#8217; according to a statement from his wife, Jessica.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Stewart has suffered an unstable\/open-book pelvic fracture, meaning his pelvis is broken in two or more places, with a large hematoma on the area,&#8217; she wrote. &#8216;He also has a fractured right leg. Both of these injuries will require surgery. Stewart was transferred to a larger hospital this morning for these procedures.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/othersports\/article-14958689\/NASCAR-driver-hospitalized-crash-Canada.html?ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490&amp;ito=1490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stewart Friesen, a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver, is lucky to be alive after fracturing his pelvis, breaking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-50064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}