More dangerous than football. Motocross is deadliest sport for kids
Two medics rolled Ashlee Sokalski onto a backboard and fitted the 19-year-old with a neck brace in the middle of the dirt motocross track.
Other teen racers whizzed past on their off-road motorcycles, no halt to the race, no safety flaggers in sight.
Sokalski had sharpened her race skills for years and finally broke through a Mideast regional qualifier to be here at Loretta Lynn's Ranch.
But just minutes into the race, Sokalski flew off her Yamaha YZ250 motorcycle and another rider ran her over.
Her neck, skull, shoulder, leg and wrist were broken. Her right lung was crushed. She was barely breathing and had a faint pulse.
The record of the 2010 national motocross championship listed Sokalski's official result as DNF: Did not finish.
The injuries would kill her.