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ETC. News: NY Post - Witness says Nick "acting like a jerk, racing between lights" day before crash Aug 30, 2007 - 10:12:00 PM
The New York Post reports tonight that Nick Hogan was racing the day before his car crashed, nearly killing his passenger who is still hospitalized in critical condition. Excerpt:
Frances Vitalis, a registered nurse from Plant City, saw Bollea's Supra and a silver Dodge Viper revving their engines and racing between traffic signals before the crash.
On Saturday, "He was acting like a jerk, racing the Viper and, at on stage, a Mustang, and probably doing speeds of 80 or 90 mph in an 45 mph limit," the motorist who saw Bollea Saturday night told Splash News.
"They were racing between lights for 10 minutes or more. Speeding off and weaving in and out of traffic. The driving was incredibly irresponsible."
Bollea's father, real name Terry Bollea, is the registered owner of the Viper that is seen in these photographs. But the car was being driven by a youth, aged in his late teens or early 20s, when the photographs were taken on Saturday in Clearwater, Florida.
KELLER'S ANALYSIS The story notes that the witness on Saturday saw the silver Viper being driven by a youth around 20 years old the day before. That would indicate that the race with the silver Viper on Sunday wasn't a happenstance impromptu race that coincidentally as a silver Viper like the one the Hogan family also owns, but someone known to the family or by Nick. It also lends credence to the police spokesperson who said definitively that Hulk Hogan himself was not driving the other vehicle racing Nick at the time of the crash.
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