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--Pat Kelly
Jay Mitchell wrote:
>
> Mark wrote:
>
> >I agree. Belts don't rip. If you put enough force to that belt to rip it,
> >it would cut the driver in half first.
>
> Unless it had something wrong with it in the first place.
>
> >Nascar is just covering their butt.
>
> I'm sure they'd do that regardless, but the crash didn't look severe enough
>to me to cause a fatality. The nose of the car was not crushed the way it's
>been in past severe crashes. When I first saw the footage, I couldn't believe
>it had killed Dale. I'm not claiming to be an expert on this, but so far I can
>believe that there could have been something wrong with the lap belt.
>
> Jay
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