Priestley injured in IPS smash.

Former actor Jason Priestley has been seriously injured in a Sunday morning practice crash at the Kentucky Speedway. The driver of the Kelley Racing Infiniti Pro Series machine is said to be serious condition in a local hospital.

Priestley, who qualified a career best second alongside AJ Foyt IV on Saturday, was practicing for the fourth Infiniti Pro Series event when his Dallara-Infiniti became unstable in the first turn and smacked the outside wall almost head on.

Priestley was stabilized at the circuit before being airlifted to the nearby University of Kentucky hospital where he was listed in a serious but stable condition.

Early reports list Priestley as having suffered a closed head injury (probable concussion), fractures to both feet and a fractured T8 vertebrae.

However Dr. Henry Bock, the director of medial services for the IRL, said that early indications showed that Priestley was responding to instructions and had movement in all his extremities.

Preistley's crash is the third major incident in just four IPS races. Just four laps into the new series last month in Kansas, Matt Halliday sustained multiple wounds when he crashed while Gary Peterson was also hospitalized and was forced to miss the second round of the series in Nashville after a practice accident.