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Aug 23, 2022 · The Hit: Tony Stewart’s fatal collision with Kevin Ward Jr still lingers. Eight years on from the young driver’s death, a new documentary seeks to answer questions about a deadly night on...
Mar 8, 2022 · The Hit: An Investigative Documentary: Directed by Chris Halsne. Award-winning investigative journalists and forensic engineers analyze never-before-seen evidence that indicates NASCAR legend Tony Stewart killed a competitor after accelerating his car and fishtailing it toward the defenseless man.
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- Chris Halsne
- 2022-03-08
Award-winning investigative journalists and forensic engineers analyze never-before-seen evidence that indicates NASCAR legend Tony Stewart killed a competitor after accelerating his car and fishtailing it toward the defenseless man. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. Award-winning ...
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When NASCAR legend, Tony Stewart, hit and killed an up-and-coming competitor on a rural dirt track, local police ruled it an accident. One billion data points, analyzed by the world's leading forensic engineers, tell a different, damning, and stunningly visual story of what happened that night.
- The Premise Behind “The Hit”
- The Impetus Behind The Film
- Goals of “The Hit”
- The Ward Family’S Perspective
- Fallout from The Racing Community
- The Science Behind “The Hit”
- Aftermath
The film, which features the work of several forensic scientists, examines the investigation of the accident at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park (now known as Land of Legends Raceway) in New York. The scientists used videogrammetry to recreate the incident by combining video footage from several cameras. Those videos created three-dimensional coord...
Halsne began work on the documentary while in between jobs. He had just left his job as an investigative reporter at Fox 31 in Denver, Colorado. Halsne was set to start his current job as first Investigative Broadcaster in Residence at American University in Washington, D.C. “I wasn’t aware of videogrammetry until Knott Laboratory [in Centennial, C...
Halsne defended his motives for the project. “There is nothing nefarious about this — it is the opposite,” Halsne said. “We’re looking to understand what happened that day.” Halsne spent three years investigating Ward’s fatality. He sold a pickup truck he owned to finance travel expenses to make the film. “Covid set us back a year, but it helped me...
Halsne spent eight hours doing interviews at the Ward family’s home in Port Leyden, New York. Kevin and Pam Ward, and their three daughters, went on camera. The film contains video and photo coverage of Kevin Ward Jr.’s career in racing, spanning from his birth to until that fateful night in Canandaigua. “I got a call from Chris [Halsne] one day, a...
The Wards sued Tony Stewart in 2016. “[Pam and I] went to every deposition — all over the country,” the elder Ward said. “When the attorneys said the case was going nowhere and we had to give up, we cried for 24 hours straight.” Kevin Sr. said they were heavily bashed on the Internet due to their lawsuit. “Tony lovers told so many lies on the Inter...
The Ward family contacted Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) professor Martin Gordon to serve as an expert witness in the civil lawsuit they had filed. “My work was done for the civil trial,” Gordon said. “In the criminal case, the local police did not have the same tools that engineers do. The Ontario County Sheriff’s department … did not hav...
We reached out to Tony Stewart for comment on “The Hit.” The response was, “A representative for Stewart declined comment,” asking that we publish those words, as written here. A grand jury found no basis to charge Tony Stewart with any crimes. The film mentions that five-year statute of limitations for trying Stewart criminally may have run out. “...
Feb 23, 2022 · When NASCAR legend, Tony Stewart, hit and killed an up-and-coming competitor on a rural dirt track, local police ruled it an accident. One billion data points, analyzed by the world’s leading forensic engineers, tell a damning and stunningly visual story of what happened that night.
The Hit. An investigative documentary. When NASCAR legend, Tony Stewart, hit and killed an. up-and-coming competitor on a rural dirt track in 2014, local police ruled it an accident. Watch the trailer. What really happened? One billion data points, analyzed by the world’s leading forensic engineers, tell a damning, stunningly visual story.
