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...kind. Some students pack into bus stairwells, blocking exits and exerting a dangerous pressure on buses' retractable doors. Others make themselves comfortable by sitting on the dashboard, almost entirely obstructing the driver's view of traffic. As one driver candidly remarked, "students cram in just about everywhere except my lap." Indeed, the Mather-Science Center shuttle was so crowded last Monday morning that the driver had to rely on students near the window to tell him when traffic was clear--a fact that was particularly disturbing in light of the perilous road conditions caused by the previous night's snow...
HARNESS For some reason Earnhardt's left lap belt failed. A new design will reduce the force on the shoulders and neck...
...around, smashing into one another, Tony Stewart's Pontiac soaring through the air, ripping the hood off another car, metal clanging, a 16-minute red flag to clean up the mess--and only a bum shoulder, Stewart's, as a result. Then on the last turn of the last lap, Earnhardt's famous black No. 3 Chevy Monte Carlo plowed--thud--into the wall and drifted back out, nose smashed. No fire, no catapulting frames. Ironhead had walked away from stuff that looked a lot worse than this. "No one ever expected Dale Earnhardt to die in a race...
...learned later that Earnhardt's left lap seat belt had torn apart, meaning he may have been thrown into the steering column. No one could ever recall a seat belt failing that way. In the aftermath, NASCAR determined that any new safety rules would not be hurried, and that the next week's race, in Rockingham, N.C., would be held as scheduled...
DIED. DALE EARNHARDT, 49, America's most famous stock car racing champion and a Southern cultural icon, after crashing in the last lap of the Daytona 500 race; in Daytona Beach, Florida. Racing runs in the Earnhardt family?Earnhardt's father was a driver, as is his son, Dale Jr., who finished second in the Daytona 500. In a 26-year career, he won 76 races and seven national championships, earning more than $41 million...