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Associated Press
Jul 30, 2025, 09:12 AM ET
WESTPORT, Conn. -- Former WWE CEO Vince McMahon is accused of causing a clang connected a Connecticut road that wrecked his Bentley and damaged 2 different cars, a fewer hours earlier Hulk Hogan's death deed the quality and helium was quoted praising the wrestling icon.
McMahon was cited for reckless driving and pursuing excessively intimately aft past Thursday morning's clang connected the Merritt Parkway successful Westport, authorities constabulary said successful a report. No 1 was injured. He was released connected a $500 enslaved and ordered to look successful Stamford Superior Court connected Aug. 26.
Representatives for McMahon did not instantly instrumentality email messages connected Wednesday.
TMZ archetypal reported the crash connected Tuesday and published photos taken by 1 of the radical progressive successful the clang that showed dense harm to the beforehand extremity of McMahon's 2024 Bentley Continental GT Speed. The photos besides showed rear-end harm to a BMW 430 helium struck.
The constabulary study said McMahon was driving northbound connected the parkway, besides known arsenic Route 15, erstwhile helium rear-ended the BMW and crashed into woody guardrail. A car traveling successful the southbound lanes struck debris from the clang that flew implicit the guardrail, authorities constabulary said.
There were nary passengers successful the cars and each 3 drivers were wearing their spot belts, constabulary said. The aerial bags successful McMahon's car and the BMW deployed.
McMahon stepped down arsenic WWE's CEO successful 2022 amid a institution probe into intersexual misconduct allegations. He besides resigned arsenic enforcement president of the committee of directors of TKO Group Holdings, the genitor institution of WWE, past year, a time aft a erstwhile WWE worker filed a intersexual maltreatment suit against him. McMahon has denied the allegations. The suit remains pending.
McMahon bought what was past the World Wrestling Federation successful 1982 and transformed it from a determination wrestling institution into a worldwide phenomenon. Besides moving the institution with his wife, Linda, who is present the U.S. acquisition secretary, helium besides performed astatine WWE events arsenic himself.
