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Hoover youth dies at Tallassee motocross track
By David Goodwin - News Editor
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The father of a 12-year-old motorcyclist killed in an accident at Tallassee’s Monster Mountain Motocross Track said his son truly loved the sport he died practicing.
Foster Turner, a Hoover-area seventh grader, was killed when his 85cc motorcycle fishtailed after a jump. Fosty lost control and was thrown to the dirt track, where a trailing rider ran over his abdomen. A spokesman at Monster Mountain said the boy obeyed all regulations for protective gear.
“Our only statement is that our thoughts and prayers are with the family,” the spokesman said Monday.
Fosty’s dad, Michael Turner, told The Birmingham News they had “been practicing all day, and things had been going really well.”
“It was just a freak accident,” Turner added.
Fosty was training for an upcoming race in the N.E.A.T. Series, which comprises up-and-coming racers from northeast Alabama and Tennessee. Fosty took first place in the series championships last year, as well as top honors at a race last weekend. Fosty’s brother also raced in the N.E.A.T. Series.
“(Foster) was a really fast rider for someone his size and age,” Turner said of his 12-year-old son. “He lived and breathed motocross.”
His father was riding on the same track when the accident took his son’s life, but “I just saw the aftermath,” Turner said.
Fosty was a seventh-grader at Bumpus Middle Schoool in Hoover. Turner told The News that Fosty “was fearless, free-spirited and had a smile bigger than the moon.”
“It’s something that keeps them out of trouble and us together, and it’s been wonderful,” Turner said Saturday. “Just being together, those were probably the things he loved the most.”
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