Word: teran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispatches on Smiley's death, it was quickly pointed out that nobody had died at the old "brickyard" since 1973, when Art Pollard was killed in qualifications, Swede Savage was fatally injured in the race, and Armando Teran was run over by a fire truck speeding the wrong way toward Savage's crash. (That was also the year Salt Walther was maimed, if maiming counts...
...Teran was a pit crewman, just 22. To someone standing a few feet away, the sound of the thud was enough. Teran was dead. But the reflex thought was the irony of betrayal, not the horror of racing. Who would think to look both ways before stepping out into the alltime one-way street? George Bignotti, the famed engine builder, picked up Armando Teran's shoes. After the rest of the debris was picked up, the race resumed...