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From: chuckcar on 26 Jun 2010 22:04 john <johngdole(a)hotmail.com> wrote in news:1884b71c-5875-4a8e-a7e4-5d99916614ff(a)e12g2000prh.googlegroups.com: > Toyota's chief test driver, Hiromu Naruse, died in a head-on collision > on Wednesday in Germany, the newspaper Rhein-Zeitung reports. > > The story was picked up by Autoblog. A Toyota spokesman, Wade Hoyt, > confirmed that Mr. Naruse, 67, had been killed in the crash. > > According to Rhein-Zeitung, the accident happened close to Toyota's > workshop near the N�rburgring, an undulating racetrack that automakers > use to test their vehicles. > > Photographs and German video of the scene show a yellow Lexus LFA > supercar and a BMW, both heavily damaged and nose-to-nose, along a > slender two-lane road. The LFA that was involved in the crash appeared > to be a prototype. > > http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/toyota-chief-test-driver-die > s-in-crash-in-germany/ > On the 'ring I would expect - it's a two lane road. And the only one that would make any sense in this context. Yup, sure looks like it I do have doubts however as there are no kerbs visible. http://www.rhein-zeitung.de/regionales_artikel,-BoosNuerburgring-Chef-Testingenieur-stirbt-bei-Unfall-mit-Super-Lexus-_arid,102517.html -- (setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) ) |