<VV> Driver killed when '65 Corvair convertible crashes

[Jim Houston]

That is sad...  The downside to the article is they said "the 
convertible flipped"... that only adds more fuel to the "Corvairs flip 
over easily" myth....

Jim Houston
'65 Corsa

Scott Morehead wrote:
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> http://www.indystar.com/article/20090918/LOCAL02/90918027/1195/LOCAL
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> Driver killed when '65 convertible crashes
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> Posted: September 18, 2009
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> A
> man likely on his way to a classic car show was killed when he crashed his 1965
> Corvair convertible this morning, police said.
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> The victim, whose name has not been released by police yet, was driving
> south on U.S. 52 when another driver called police to alert them that he was
> driving erratically, said Boone County Sheriff Ken Campbell.
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> “We had deputies within a half-mile of him trying to intercept him when he
> drove off into the median and flipped the convertible and was killed,” he said.
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> “We have every reason to believe it was a medical issue that overcame him.
> We do not believe drinking was involved.”
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> Campbell said the man was believed to be on his way to a car show in the
> area.
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> The car crashed just south of Ind. 47 in the 5000 block of US 52. The man
> did not have any passengers and did not cross the median into oncoming traffic,
> Campbell said.
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