Veteran stock car driver Robbie Brewer suffered a medical emergency while competing in a race at the Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem on Saturday night and crashed into a wall, according to the Associated Press and John Dell of the Winston-Salem Journal.

Robbie Brewer's car struck head-on a wall on the quarter-mile (0.40-kilometer) track at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem and came to a stop near the start-finish line.

Robbie Brewer, a veteran short track racer in the Carolinas, died Saturday night after a crash while racing in the Sportsman division at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem. He was 53.