07-10-2007 | By The Associated Press
A small plane registered to a company linked to NASCAR's late chairman crashed into a suburban Orlando neighborhood Tuesday, killing at least two people on board and sparking at least two house fires, authorities said. A spokeswoman for the Sanford Police Department said at least three people on the ground were injured in the crash about 8:40 a.m. The identities of the dead were not released and NASCAR did not immediately provide any details. A NASCAR spokesman in Charlotte, N.C., said the public relations staff in Daytona Beach was "in the information gathering stage" and that he knew no details at this point.