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Sprint-car driver Tony Elliott killed in plane crash

By The Sports Xchange

Sprint car driver Tony Elliott was among four people who perished in a plane crash near the South Carolina-Georgia border on Friday.

Elliott, 54, the national sprint car champion in 1998 and 2000, was on a single-engine plane that departed Warsaw, Ind. He and three other men were traveling to watch the Saturday college football game between Notre Dame and Clemson in South Carolina.

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The plane crashed on the banks of Lake Hartwell, located just south of Clemson.

The others on board were identified as Charles Smith, 71; Scott Smith, 44; and Scott Bibler, 51.

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