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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...
...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...
...piece for TIME, NBC news anchor Brian Williams suggested that people north of the Mason-Dixon line "wondered what the big deal was" after Earnhardt's accident. That was insulting. I live in a small town in Minnesota, far away from the South. Everyone I know has been affected by this loss. Earnhardt was my hero, and I have been in tears ever since the accident. I never met him, but to millions of people, losing him was like losing their best friend. JON MARQUETTE Garfield, Minn...
...NASCAR fans, Earnhardt's death was a special tragedy, but for many other readers, it was also puzzling in its senselessness. "What caused Earnhardt to take such excessive risks--a desire to commit suicide in a publicly acceptable way?" asked a reader in Minneapolis. "Those voyeurs of violence paid their money fully expecting this kind of mayhem, and then shed crocodile tears when it happened," wrote a nonfan of NASCAR from Salem, Ore. "Shame on all of them." "If any other sport had a comparable death rate, there would be calls for legislation to ban the slaughter," declared an Oklahoman...