Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2004 18:20:37 -0600
Reply-To:     Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Gnarlodious <gnarlodious@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: vanagon crash looked vey ugly
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Reminds me of that story we were talking about where his Vanagon drove off
the road and was totaled on their honeymoon.

-- Gnarlie


Entity gary hradek spoke thus:

> Stay awake, stay off the phone and stay alive.
> Hope it was not someone from the list.
>   sympathies to the wife, gary
> Newlywed man dies in crash as wife watches
>
> SF COUPLE'S VEHICLES HELD WEDDING GIFTS
>
> By Chuck Carroll
>
> Mercury News
>
>
> A newly married man was killed Monday night in
> Mountain View when he crashed into a tree as his wife
> looked on from a separate vehicle, the highway patrol
> said today.
>
> Both their vehicles were carrying wedding gifts as the
> two headed for their new home in San Francisco after
> dining with relatives in the Santa Cruz County town of
> Aptos, said Officer Christian Oliver.
>
> The 29-year-old man and his 23-year-old wife spoke on
> their cell phones as they drove. The man mentioned he
> was getting sleepy, his wife told police. At about
> 11:10 p.m. -- not long after he hung up -- his wife
> watched as his gold 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon drift to
> the left lane of northbound Highway 85 in Mountain
> View, then swerve to the right and crash into a tree
> south of the El Camino Real ramp.
>
> The man, whose name was being withheld this morning
> until relatives could be notified, was pronounced dead
> at the scene. No one else was injured in the crash.
> Alcohol did not appear to be a factor, Oliver said,
> although that would be routinely investigated.
>
> Oliver said the couple wed last week in Georgia and
> had just returned to California after their honeymoon.
>
>
>
>
>
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