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WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) -- An 8-year-old Sandy boy has died after hitting a wooden wall during a jump at Rocky Mountain Raceways.
Logan Emerson was leading the pack on Saturday during a motocross race when he cleared the landing on a 90-foot tabletop jump and crashed.
Rocky Mountain Raceways general manager Doug Binstock says Emerson was thrown into a wall dividing the track.
The boy was wearing a helmet, neck brace, chest brace and boots at the time of the accident.
He was flown to Primary Children's Medical Center, where he died from injuries sustained in the wreck.
Binstock says most motocross riders range in age between 8 and 22, but it isn't uncommon for a rider as young as 4 to be on the track.
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