A driver was killed in a crash during an event at the Keystone Raceway in New Alexandria on Saturday afternoon.

The Westmoreland County coroner said Ronnie J. Ruggiero, 37, of Irwin, was driving a Ford drag racing truck when he to stop at the end of the racetrack, traveled into a gravel safety pit at a high rate of speed and hit a safety pit sand mound.

Ruggiero was pronounced dead at the scene.

The coroner said he was wearing a helmet and using a safety harness.

State police are investigating the crash.

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