>>Maybe a fluke wasn't the right word... an oddity maybe?
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>I'm sure Dale Earnhardt found it mighty odd. One moment you're driving around the track and alive and then the next, whoops, you're not. At least death was instantaneous rather than painful.

The oddity was that he wasn't going that fast when he hit the wall, and there wasn't much damage to the car. Didn't look like anything really happened. But he was dead.