<VV> Driver killed when '65 Corvair convertible crashes

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OMG! I've known Phil for years. He was very distinctive, with his handlebar
mustache. A really nice guy. I'm so shocked and saddened by the news.

-Mark Corbin


> [Original Message]
> From: Carlton Smith <carlton55 at comcast.net>
> To: Scott Morehead <moreheadscott at yahoo.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Date: 9/18/2009 10:36:57 PM
> Subject: Re: <VV> Driver killed when '65 Corvair convertible crashes
>
> This was Phil Haper (74) of Lafayette, IN. Phil was a long time and very
active member of the Circle City Corvair Club. He was on his way to the
Annual Hoosier Auto Show & Swap Meet in Indianapolis where the Corvair is
the featured car this year. Phil was diabetic and some members in the club
speculate that he was having a medical problem along this area. 

Phil was a wonderful man, extremely kind and gentle. He will be greatly
missed by all of us in the CCC club.

Carlton Smith
Indianapolis, IN
Circle City Corvair Club member

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http://www.indystar.com/article/20090918/LOCAL02/90918027/1195/LOCAL

Driver killed when '65 convertible crashes

Posted: September 18, 2009

A
man likely on his way to a classic car show was killed when he crashed his
1965
Corvair convertible this morning, police said.

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.

“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.


“We have every reason to believe it was a medical issue that overcame him.
We do not believe drinking was involved.”

Campbell said the man was believed to be on his way to a car show in the
area.

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.