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Tuesday afternoon at a hotel in downtown Atlanta, NASCAR officials, stung by criticism of their handling of the investigation into driver Dale Earnhardt?s death six months ago, finally revealed the voluminous results of a $1 million probe into the fatal Daytona 500 crash...
...Their conclusion: The racing legend was the victim of a disastrous chain of events. He hit the wall at 160 mph, just milliseconds after his car was hit broadside - and to top it all off, his seatbelt ripped apart during the crash. Those events conspired to fling the unprotected back of Earnhardt?s head against the steering wheel, the support behind his seat or both...
...These factors operating together resulted in head impact," wrote crash injury experts James Raddin and James Benedict in NASCAR's two-volume, two-inch-thick report. "None of these factors alone can be conclusively isolated as the cause" of Earnhardt?s death...
...NASCAR?s slick, two-hour press conference provided a microsecond-by-microsecond dissection of the crash, but did little to quell persistent questions and criticism. The report failed, for example, to determine exactly why Earnhardt?s left lap belt "dumped," bunching in a twisted tension adjuster, causing it to rip like cheap T-shirt...
...inches wide. DIED. LEON WILKESON, 49, bassist and founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, the 1970s U.S. rock band that sold 35 million albums and is best known for its songs Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama; in his sleep, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Wilkeson survived the 1977 plane crash that killed three members of the group. He and the remaining members reformed the band in 1987 and were in the midst of a U.S. tour. RETIRED. MICHAEL FLATLEY, 42, the flashy and temperamental Irish-American star of the original Riverdance step-dancing extravaganza, who was fired but went...