 His car came to rest perpendicular to the track as other drivers still pilling into the crash scene, before being broadsided on the passenger side door by the No.54 Dodge of Jimmy Crawford, the impact catapulting the car back into the wall.Hassler was killed instantly from massive head and neck injuries.Hassler is buried at the Chattanooga Memorial Park in his hometown at Chattanooga, Tennessee,  and was survived by his wife Joannie and 4 sons.