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In a Car

It wasn't on any Meat Puppets release until Rykodisc issued the song as a bonus track (with the entire first EP and many outtakes) on the 1999 reissue of the first LP, Meat Puppets.



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2013 Windward Islands Tournament

Dominica was originally scheduled to take part in the tournament but withdrew on 19 April, only two days before the tournament began, after head coach Kurt Hector and defender Noran Jno Hope were killed in a car accident on the way to Melville Hall Airport to meet their other teammates to fly to St. Vincent.

AC Frua

Built over a stretched AC Cobra 427 chassis, the car had immense performance; the big-block Ford FE engine had larger capacity, more torque and more power than similar Italian cars, but in a car of similar weight.

Albert Jarrett

On 31 January 2006, he was involved in a car crash whilst on his way to Swindon Town's game with Walsall.

Alebachew Teka

Alebachew died on Sunday, January 16, 2005, in a car accident while traveling from Addis Ababa to Jimma, a city some 124 miles west of the capital, to film a documentary for a new show.

Aleksandr Dedyushko

Dedyushko was killed along with his wife and son in a car accident on November 3, 2007, in Petushki, Vladimir Oblast, Russia.

Allegra Huston

When Huston was four, her mother died in a car accident and she was subsequently brought up by filmmaker John Huston (1906–87), her mother's estranged husband (Soma was his fourth wife).

Alonzo Dillard Folger

As a Democrat, he was elected to the 76th United States Congress in 1938 and re-election to the 77th U.S. Congress in 1940, but his second term was cut short by his death in a car accident in Mount Airy on April 30, 1941.

Angel's Son

Footage of James Lynn Strait from the band Snot who died with his dog Dobbs in a car accident is superimposed during a vigil around the campfire, growing in attendance with appearances of fellow musicians including System of a Down, Coal Chamber, Sugar Ray, Kittie, Incubus, Korn and others to say goodbye to their friend as a memorium title is revealed at the last few moments of the song.

Arkadiusz Gołaś

Arkadiusz Gołaś (May 10, 1981 in Przasnysz – September 16, 2005 died in a car accident on the Austrian motorway A2 in Griffen near Klagenfurt) was a Polish volleyball player, Olympic athlete, member of the Polish national team between 2001 and 2005.

Ashok Chakra Award

2009 – Tukaram Ombale (Maharashtra Police assistant sub-inspector) – Around midnight, a wireless message was flashed that two terrorists were moving towards Marine Drive in a car and Ombale immediately positioned barricades to block its passage.

Bibras Natkho

Natkho's cousin, Circassian Israeli basketball player Nili Natkho, died in 2004 in a car accident in northern Israel.

Bobby Hamilton

He was asked to drive one of the "movie cars" for the 1990 film Days of Thunder, qualifying fifth in a movie car at the 1989 Autoworks 500 in Phoenix, in a car that was not intended to be competitive.

Boyracers

Alvin’s formative development is tracked in the context of the group’s activities, including boy-racing around the town in a car called Belinda and engaging in debates about film and music.

BSA Model E

A 1919 BSA Model E complete with matching sidecar featured in a car chase in the 1965 movie Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, where it was ridden by lead actor Stuart Whitman who played American cowboy Orvil Newton.

Carve Her Name with Pride

The poem, 'The Life That I Have', also known as 'Yours', recited to Violette by her husband Etienne, was once believed to have been written especially for the film, but was in fact the actual code poem given to her in March 1944 by the SOE cryptographer Leo Marks, and written by him on Christmas Eve 1943 in memory of his girlfriend, Ruth, who had recently died in a car crash.

Cliffhanger

In 2012, Fox-TV series Glee gave way to a cliffhanger with its winter finale episode "On My Way" where Quinn Fabray (played by Dianna Agron) is involved in a car accident after responding to a text message while driving.

Curtis Keeble

While serving in World War II, he met his future wife Margaret Fraser, with whom he had three daughters: Suzanne, a doctor; Sally Keeble, a Member of Parliament; and Jane Keeble, who was killed on 12 July 1998 in a car accident.

Donald Thobega

In March 2009, Thobega was involved in a car accident while driving back to Lobatse from a music concert in Molapowabojang.

Evangelos Averoff

In her best-selling book, A Man, Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci accused Averoff of threatening to kill Greek MP Alexandros Panagoulis a few days before Panagulis' death in a car accident in Athens.

Found a Peanut

The song appears memorably in a morbidly funny moment during the film Tromeo and Juliet, where a family in a car are singing the song before they get into an accident.

Franz Kamin

He was killed in a car crash in Roseville, Minnesota when a car driven by James Brody, who also died, left the road, jumped a curb, and hit a tree.

Georgios Mitsibonas

On 13 September 1997 Mitsibonas was killed in a car crash near the village of Giannouli outside Larissa.

Godfrey Cambridge

Godfrey made an impressive cameo appearance in director Sidney Lumet's Bye Bye Braverman as a Yiddish speaking NYC cab driver involved in a car collision with the main protagonists, and another as a gay underworld figure in the 1975 Pam Grier vehicle Friday Foster.

Hana Mašková

On 31 March 1972, Mašková was killed immediately in a car crash near the French town Vouvray.

International House, University of Wollongong

During her tenure there were two tragic accidents which had a profound impact on the community: an American student became a paraplegic in a car accident; and three students from New Jersey, USA, were killed in a minibus accident in Gympie, NSW.

Isaacs by-election, 2000

Wilton's marriage had broken down earlier in the year, and shortly afterwards Victoria Police arrested Wilton after finding him, clearly distressed, with his children in a car in the You Yangs national park.

Jean Rondeau

Jean Rondeau (Le Mans, France, 13 May 1946 – Champagné, France, 27 December 1985) was a French race car driver and constructor, who won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1980, in a car bearing his own name, an achievement which remains unique in the history of the race.

Johannes Heisig

His large triptych "Be Berlin or: The Unifying Power of Music" shows musicians playing beside John F. Kennedy on his Berlin visit in the 1960s sitting in a car together with Willy Brandt and Konrad Adenauer.

Jonathan Legear

On 7 October 2012, Legear was involved in a car accident, where he crashed his car inside an Esso gas station located in Tongeren, having mistaken the accelerator pedal for the brake.

Joseph Sutton

Just prior to the couple's departure to Japan, where Sutton was slated to become an exchange Professor at Tenri University, they were involved in a car accident.

L.T.D.

Then they drove to New York City, in a car that they purchased together (a 1956 Chevy), and lived in the Hamilton Heights section of Harlem on 149th and Broadway, where Toby Wynn (baritone sax) joined them.

Lewis Billups

Six days later, Billups died in a car crash when driving at speeds in excess of 100 mph he lost control on Interstate 4 his corvette convertible destroying over 50 meters of steel railing.

Little Orphan Airedale

The cartoon's story (which is essentially a re-working of Bob Clampett's 1941 short Porky's Pooch) is about a dog named Rags McMutt, who has just escaped from the dog pound and accidentally meets Charlie, an old friend of his in a car he used as a hiding place.

Luigi Fagioli

In what is one of racing's most famous battles, Chiron eventually won but Fagioli showed how skilled he was in a car geared for great speed on long stretches, not the tight twists and short runs of Monte Carlo.

Mattia Dal Bello

He died in a car accident on 11 December 2004, as he drove his Audi A3 into a wall.

Oscar Rabin Band

Vocalists over the years included Dennis Hale ( who died in a car accident in South Africa after touring there with Jack Parnell's band; Marjorie Daw (who married the band's drummer, Kenny Clare); Bernard Manning; Marion Davis, who, as Marion Keene, had a successful television and show business career; Mel Gaynor; Pattie Forbes; & Johnny Worth, who became a successful songwriter under the name Les Vandyke;

Roly

He is injured in a car accident caused by a drunk Pete Beale (Peter Dean) and is nearly burnt alive (along with Sharon) when Grant torches The Vic in an insurance scam.

Santa Rosa de Calchines

Boxing champion Carlos Monzón was killed in a car crash in the jurisdiction of Santa Rosa in 1995.

Sidney Wicks

At 9 a.m. on May 5, 1989, in Mira Mesa, San Diego, California, Wicks was seriously injured in a car accident.

Smoking bans in private vehicles

The Senator and Oncologist John Crown has put bill before parliament to ban smoking in a car with children.

Steingrímur J. Sigfússon

On 16 January 2006, Steingrímur was injured in a car accident not far from Blönduós, Iceland: he has now recovered.

Stephen Malcolm

Malcolm died in a car accident, only hours after playing Bulgaria in a friendly international in Kingston.

Suspended animation

The pigs were anaesthetized and major blood loss was induced, along with simulated - via scalpel - severe injuries (e.g. a punctured aorta as might happen in a car accident or shooting).

Tarzan Tyler

Tarzan Tyler died, along with fellow wrestler Pierre 'Mad Dog' Lefebvre and referee Adrien Desbois, in Laurentides Wildlife Reserve upon returning from a wrestling event in Chicoutimi, Quebec on December 24, 1985, in a car crash.

Terry Furlow

On May 23, 1980, Furlow was killed in a car accident when he crashed into a pole on Interstate 71 in Linndale, Ohio.

Trinidad Silva

Silva died at the age of 38 in a car accident involving a collision with a drunken driver in Whittier, California while filming the "Weird Al" Yankovic film UHF, parts of which had to be rewritten since he had not finished filming his part.

Woodpeckers From Space

The video featured Peter Slaghuis who was the lead singer, who died in a car accident in 1991.

Yehoshua Zettler

On September 17, 1948, Bernadotte came to Jerusalem in a car with General Åge Lundström on his way to meet Israeli official Dov Yosef, who was then the military governor of the Israeli-controlled portion of Jerusalem's New City.