#DRIVERS KILLED AT OSWEGO SPEEDWAY DRIVER#
The driver who eventually became one of the world’s best was standing in the Langhorne infield April 7, 1963, when Bobby Marvin lost control of his sprint car and slammed into the outside rail. It was very rough (in its dirt-track days). Many others suffered grievous injuries and burns. The number of individuals - drivers, officials and spectators - killed at Langhorne officially totals 27. It might as well have been called the Killing Field. The 1-mile track in eastern Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia, was known as the Track That Ate the Heroes, the Big Left Turn and the ’Horne, among others. Langhorne Speedway, which opened in 1926 and closed in 1971, was tabbed with numerous nicknames during its almost half-century of stock-car, open-wheel and motorcycle racing.
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