{"id":86899,"date":"2022-08-10T07:08:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=86899"},"modified":"2022-08-10T07:08:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:08:49","slug":"street-outlaws-star-ryan-fellows-dies-in-las-vegas-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/street-outlaws-star-ryan-fellows-dies-in-las-vegas-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Street Outlaws&#8217; Star Ryan Fellows Dies in Las Vegas Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"86904\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/street-outlaws-star-ryan-fellows-dies-in-las-vegas-crash\/screen-shot-2022-08-09-at-7-54-24-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-09-at-7.54.24-PM.png\" data-orig-size=\"1000,530\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ryan Fellows\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-09-at-7.54.24-PM-300x159.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-09-at-7.54.24-PM.png\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86904\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-09-at-7.54.24-PM.png\" alt=\"ryan fellows\" width=\"1000\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-09-at-7.54.24-PM.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-09-at-7.54.24-PM-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Screen-Shot-2022-08-09-at-7.54.24-PM-768x407.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><em>Husband, father of two was filming upcoming episode of &#8216;Street Outlaws: Fastest in America&#8217;<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>Ryan Fellows, co-star of reality show &#8216;Street Outlaws,&#8217; died Sunday, August 7th, near Las Vegas while filming for the show. He was 41.<\/p>\n<p>According to multiple reports, Fellows was driving his race-spec Nissan 240Z in a sanctioned drag race when he lost control of the car and crashed. The car flipped several times and caught fire, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Chula Vista, California, Fellows was a co-star of the Discovery\/Discovery+ street drag racing show that began airing in 2013. A statement was made by Discovery officials on Twitter: &#8220;The Street Outlaws family is heartbroken by the accident that led to the tragic death of Ryan Fellows. We extend our deepest sympathy to Ryan&#8217;s loved ones as they process this sudden and devastating loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Street Outlaws family is heartbroken by the accident that led to the tragic death of Ryan Fellows. We extend our deepest sympathy to Ryan&#39;s loved ones as they process this sudden and devastating loss.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Street Outlaws (@StreetOutlaws) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StreetOutlaws\/status\/1556684400011710465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/ryan-fellows-family-memorialize-his-life?fbclid=IwAR3oh1-llNYpiBgEzd5p0Z0DpjqzoY6mOyBPBlXwkIUA_VHtZL3yA38toGc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GoFundMe<\/a> page for the late racer, a family member said Fellows was an avid car enthusiast. &#8220;He was admired for tenacity and a relentless drive to overcome the challenges before him,&#8221; said his family.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GoFundMe page, Fellow leaves behind a wife and two children.<\/p>\n<p>Fellows&#8217; death is the latest in a string of straightline racing tragedies on in the United States; 37-year-old diesel drag racer and YouTuber Thomas Borrell, known as &#8216;Turba Tom,&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/turba-tom-famous-youtuber-and-diesel-drag-racer-dies-in-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died in a crash on July 29 while racing in Tennessee,<\/a> and 40-year-old jet truck driver Chris Darnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/driver-of-jet-truck-killed-in-fiery-explosion-at-michigan-air-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died when his truck, &#8216;Shockwave,&#8217; exploded after a blown tire during a Michigan air show performance on July 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Image: YouTube\/Discovery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Husband, father of two was filming upcoming episode of &#8216;Street Outlaws: Fastest in America&#8217; when he crashed.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":86909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3465,3470,5029],"tags":[9190,2013,2012],"class_list":["post-86899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drag-racing","category-news","category-racing","tag-ryan-fellows","tag-street-outlaws","tag-street-racing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/so_fia_Banner.webp","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-mBB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86899"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86910,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86899\/revisions\/86910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}