Jesse McCartney hit the race track in Long Beach, California for the Annual Toyota Pro/Celebrity Grand Prix, on April 17. The singer joined 17 other pro and celebrity drivers including Zachary Levi, Patrick Dempsey, Keanu Reeves, and winners Brian Austin Green and Jimmy Vasser.











Turns out Long Beach’s Shoreline Drive was not Dream Street for Jesse McCartney. Midway through the race the singer and actor came in too fast to turn one and slid in a protective tire barrier, then bounced back on to the edge of the course.

Five seconds later Chris Ashworth — a Toyota dealer — came through and T-boned him. Just full speed into the passenger side door in the kind of accident usually reserved for the Fast and the Furious franchise. It had the crowd gasping — then watching the 12 replays they showed of it on the big screens around the course. It was impossible not to rubberneck that one.

Good news — nobody was hurt. McCartney said he saw the accident coming a couple seconds before and was able to tighten his seatbelt harness a little more before it went down.









Jesse and a few of his fellow racers also visited a children’s hospital in Long Beach, two days before the Grand Prix.











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