However, in 1982 his career was cut short by a crash, when his car was hit by a lorry near Peterborough.
In the day's opening race, America's Daron Rahlves was involved in a spectacular crash when the 36-year-old, one of the United States' most decorated downhillers, collided with France's Ted Piccard and landed hard on his back.
Perhaps he is neither, just an orphan who carries with him the picture of his handsome parents, killed in a car-crash near the pyramids when he was a boy, together with an abundance of good will which he showers on others.
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An 84-year-old woman died in February's Cumbria crash when a London to Glasgow Virgin Pendolino train derailed.
But they also reaped the reputational destruction that comes with being in office when a crash breaks.
But new technologies could allow cars to communicate to each other and inform drivers when a crash appears imminent.
When a crash occurs, governments will not have the fiscal capacity to buffer the crisis due to their already stretched borrowing levels.
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Derek Gent, 69, and Michael Holmes, 68, of Rochdale, were walking on the island of Koh Samui when a crash involving several cars happened on Saturday.
The deadliest tunnel-fire incidents happened in 2001 in the 16.9 kilometer-long (10.5 miles) Gotthard tunnel when a crash involving two trucks caused a fire in the tunnel, killing 11 people.
He was on his way to reports of a road accident when the crash happened.
The family, from County Durham, were travelling to Skegness for a dance competition when the crash happened.
The crash happened when a broken rail caused the derailment of a London-to-Leeds express train travelling at 117mph.
Police said the aircraft was involved in a practice display when the crash happened at 16:55 BST on Saturday.
They had been emerging from a side street when the crash happened, at the junction of Great Ducie Street and Sherborne Street.
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The crash happened when a Thames Trains train driven by Michael Hodder, 31, went through a red signal and hit a London-bound Great Western express.
The press rarely mentioned alcohol involvement when reporting a crash.
No one knows when a trillion dollar crash will result in one of them popping.
Bill: In our experience when everyone expects a crash, it never happens.
The Peugeot was being followed by a marked police car when the crash happened at 18:24 GMT on Sunday.
That episode ended with a crash, and reminds us that when commodity markets turn sour, the roof really falls in.
The Japanese automaker also designed the battery pack to sense a crash and disable its electrical charge when involved in an accident.
In June 1945, 102 died in a train crash in Assling, south of Munich, when an American troop transport train crashed into a train carrying German prisoners of war.
Since Oct. 13, when a propeller plane crash in Papua New Guinea killed 28 passengers, nobody has died in an airliner, which is generally defined as a commercial, multi-engine airplane carrying 14 or more passengers.
When airlines have a bad crash, they stop advertising for a bit.
It was the deadliest crash since August, when a U.S. military helicopter crashed during a firefight with insurgents in a remote area of Kandahar.
Companies' monthly financial reports may run fine for years, then crash in February of a leap year when software tries to compare Feb. 29, 2012, to a nonexistent Feb. 29, 2011.
"The OFT found what insurers have known for years - that when a customer has a crash that is their fault, their insurer has little control over the cost of the subsequent claim, " said Nick Starling, the ABI's director of general insurance.
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The 1929 crash seemed like much less of a mystery when Pecora was done.
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