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Old January 3rd 05, 06:31 PM
Nate Nagel
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Matthew Russotto wrote:

> In article ch.edu>,
> Daniel J. Stern > wrote:
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>>Dale Earnhart once said "Drive close to the wall, that way you won't have
>>time to accelerate on your way into it."

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>
> Considering how he died, maybe not the best guy to take advice from on
> that point.


Actually, that advice might have made his fatal incident survivable. If
you look at the footage, it appears that his car "caught" and drove
straight into the wall at a decent clip. Pretty scary stuff. But you
don't always have the choice of a good place to crash from...

nate

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