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[QUOTE]Originally posted by 90gtvert: [QB] [IMG]http://cdn.cagepotato.com/www/sites/default/files/tapout%20mask%20car%20crash.jpg[/IMG] The L.A. Times provides some new information about the car accident that left TapouT’s Charles “Mask” Lewis dead, his fiancée in the hospital, and the other driver in police custody, and at the moment all signs point to street racing as the cause of the accident: Police said the two cars appeared to have been traveling side by side at a high rate of speed at 12:57 a.m. on Jamboree Road near the Upper Newport Bay when they collided. Officers said they are investigating whether the drivers were racing. The Porsche driver, identified as Jeffrey David Kirby, 51, of Costa Mesa, was arrested after allegedly abandoning his car on a side street near the collision and taking off on foot with his female passenger. Kirby is being held on suspicion of felony drunk driving and driving under the influence. Bail is set at $2 million. It’s still too early to say if it was really an ill-advised street race that killed the TapouT co-founder, but when two high-performing sports cars traveling side-by-side on a long, straight road at 1 a.m. ends with a high-speed fatal accident, that’s often the cause. That, or maybe some type of road rage incident, which isn’t any better. From the sounds of things the driver of the Porsche, Jeffrey David Kirby, has had his share of vehicular problems: According to Orange County Superior Court records, Kirby has been cited for at least eight traffic violations since 2001, including a conviction for driving under the influence in which he was sentenced to three years' probation. In the 2001 drunk driving arrest, Kirby allegedly told the arresting officer that his father was a retired CHP patrolman who always advised him to never submit to a sobriety test. He also told the officer that "he shouldn't be picking on people with money," according to the police report. Naturally you want to wait until all the facts are out before making a judgment, but this guy sure isn’t getting any more likable the more we hear about him. Nothing says culpability quite like fleeing the scene of an accident. If it turns out he was drunk and street racing in an incident that killed another person, I have a feeling that plenty of people are going to be picking on him soon, regardless of whether he has money. Street racing is dumb enough when teenage kids do it, but Mask was 45 and Kirby is 51. At that age a person has got to know better. Let’s hope, in spite of all this, that there is another explanation. Source: http://www.cagepotato.com/new-detail...apout’s-“mask” [/QB][/QUOTE]
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