With HD DVD, things are just going from bad, to really bad, to worse, to car-crash-you-can't-stop-looking-at.

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The pilot had to wield an emergency-crash ax to stop him.

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The ruling, by governing body the FIA, may have put a full stop on the "crash-gate" scandal but there was nevertheless a tangible sense of frustration among the F1 fraternity as they returned to the scene of the crime.

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As a result the anti- gang crash units were shut down and a new complaints and discipline policy to stop police corruption was taken up. 10.09.36 Clive Myrie This was the Police department that Bill Bratton took over.

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Just two laps after Alonso came in early to take on more fuel, Piquet's crash forced the deployment of the safety car and the subsequent pit stop of nearly all the other drivers -- an action that promoted Alonso to fifth from where he went on to secure victory.

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He was only 15 when, the night after Buddy Holly and Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper died in that 1959 Iowa charter-plane crash, he was recruited to somehow help make the show go on at the tour's next stop in Moorhead, Minnesota.

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