Seat Belt Cut? on Friday's RPM 2Night(ESPN2) and the ESPN Site, it is being
reported that - Bill Simpson claims a fan has come forward with video
showing Earnhardt being cut from his seat belt. Simpson, founder and
chairman of Simpson Performance Products, which made the seat belt Earnhardt
was wearing during his deadly crash at the Daytona 500 on Feb. 18, told ESPN
radio's Jack Arute that a fan sent him the video of the crash. According to
Simpson, he believes the video shows that an EMT cut the seat belt. "Since
this whole thing has surfaced and since NASCAR did their press conference,
there's a spectator that has come foward with videotape and it clearly shows
an EMT getting into the car with a knife - and that's what it looked like to
me - like it had been cut," said Simpson. "I have a copy of it now and it's
out being enhanced at the moment." After Dale Earnhardt died at Daytona,
NASCAR reported that a broken seat belt was discovered in Earnhardt's car.
But, earlier this week, an independent doctor who viewed autopsy photos made
the claim that a broken seat belt did not cause Earnhardt's death. More at
the ESPN site(4-14-2001)
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