Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Dean Thompson left the track at Texas Motor Speedway in an ambulance after he took two huge licks in a crash during a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series on Saturday afternoon.
Thompson was driving the No. 5 TRICON Garage Toyota when he struck the wall. The vehicle started spinning back toward the field and he was tagged twice – once in his passenger door frame and the other in his right front side. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Dean Thompson is carried to an ambulance during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 1, 2023, in Fort Worth. (Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images) He was put into the ambulance on a stretcher and taken to the infield care center for a preliminary evaluation and later to a hospital.
He offered an update of his own on social media. "Hey y’all, I actually deleted Twitter to do a detox for about a month but I’m back lol.
Just to update y’all I’m doing good, just getting some scans done then I’m gonna go have a beer when I get home!" Thompson tweeted.