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Roush critically injured in plane crash
.c The Associated Press
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Jack Roush, the NASCAR owner who fields four Winston Cup cars, remained hospitalized in critical condition Saturday after the small plane he was piloting crashed in south Alabama.
Roush, whose 60th birthday was Friday, was being treated at UAB Hospital. He had been airlifted after crashing in a neighborhood in Troy, about 50 miles from Montgomery.
Roush arrived at the hospital at about 10 p.m. Friday, spokeswoman Tracy Bischoff said. She said she could not provide the extent of Roush's injuries and said he was being evaluated in the emergency department.
Roush Racing and NASCAR weere to provide details during a news conference Saturday at Talladega Superspeedway, site of NASCAR races Saturday and Sunday.
The plane went down in a residential area at about 6 p.m., a dispatcher for the Alabama state troopers said. A newspaper photographer at the scene said the plane crashed into a pond in a gated community.
A resident of the neighborhood, Larry Hicks, pulled Roush from the wreckage, Troy Police spokesman Sgt. Benny Scarbrough told The Birmingham News.
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