IndyCar champion and Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon lost his life in a horrific crash in the season finale at Las Vegas 15 years ago today.

On Oct. 16, 2011, British race car driver Dan Wheldon, 33-year-old two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, died after a 15-car pileup at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

What was supposed to be a season-ending showdown at Las Vegas Motor Speedway became instead a script for disaster Sunday: a fiery 15-car crash that killed popular two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Dan ...

Dan Wheldon was killed when his head hit a post in the fencing at Las Vegas Motor Speedway — contact that created a ''non-survivable injury'' to the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. The cause of ...