- Dale Earnhardt Jr struggled like everyone else on Wednesday when a snowstorm hit his home state of North Carolina
- The recently-retired NASCAR driver tweeted pictures of him helping another driver who had slipped off the road in the icy conditions
- ‘NC stay off the roads today/tonight. 5 minutes after helping these folks I center punched a pine tree,’ Earnhardt wrote
- Earnhardt later downplayed the incident in another tweet
- ‘I just scratched my winch on the trunk of a pine. No crash. Just driving too fast in the snow. Being a bit of a fool,’ he wrote
- The incident happened in Mooresville, which got a half-foot of snow Wednesday
Driving in the middle of a snow storm is hazardous – even for one of the world’s greatest drivers.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. hit a tree while driving in North Carolina on Wednesday, as the region was hit with up to a foot of snow.
The recently-retired NASCAR driver said on his Twitter account Wednesday that he had just used his winch to help a sedan out of a ditch in snowy weather when he himself drove off the road and into a tree.
Dale Earnhardt Jr (pictured in November) struggled like everyone else on Wednesday when a snowstorm hit his home state of North Carolina
The recently-retired NASCAR driver tweeted pictures of him helping another driver who had slipped off the road in the icy conditions
Earnhardt later downplayed the incident in another tweet
The incident happened in Mooresville, North Carolina, which got about a half-foot of snow on Wednesday
He wrote: ‘NC stay off the roads today/tonight. 5 minutes after helping these folks I center punched a pine tree.’
Earnhardt later downplayed the incident in another tweet.
‘Getting all kinds of text that I was in a traffic accident today. I just scratched my winch on the trunk of a pine. No crash. Just driving too fast in the snow. Being a bit of a fool,’ he wrote.
A spokesman for Earnhardt, Mike Davis, said he wasn’t injured and his pickup truck had only minor damage, if any. Davis said the people Earnhardt helped weren’t injured, either.
Earnhardt’s crash happened in Mooresville near where his racing team has its shop and offices.
Mooresville got about a half-foot of snow on Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.