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SpaceRider
4/12/2007 9:12:21 AM
Waltrip charged with reckless driving
 Michael Waltrip's year just keeps getting worse.  As if qualifying for only 1 race  so far this year isn't bad enough, now he's been charged with reckless driving.  Waltrip, fell asleep at the wheel last weekend, hit a telephone pole, and rolled his car, but failed to report the accident to police.  Michael said "I am really embarrassed about the accident, but I feel fortunate that I wasn't hurt"




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Hendrick Motorsports has a chance to do something that hasn't been done in 36 years by Petty Enterprises.  That is,  get a 5th consecutive win which would tie the Petty's when they did it from July 14th-August 1st 1971.  Currently Jimmie Johnson has won 3 of the last 4, and Kyle Busch has the other win.




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wiz kidd
4/12/2007 9:21:05 AM
oh man! he's having a bad year....i feel sorry for him cuz i really liked him as a drive and he's probably the friendliest driver from what you can see anyway...thats too bad...i dont like to see him not making races either...i'd rather see him in the race than jarret or vickers...
SolaraSlayer
4/12/2007 1:17:31 PM
Did they drop the "leaving the scene of an accident" charges?
 
Jim Rome was bagging on him yesterday,
 
"When you crash in civilian live, you wait for the cops, you don't go running back to the pits?"
Revitupfaster
4/12/2007 1:56:56 PM
Must be the fact that Michael is now driving a Toyota that is causing him all the bad luck. Things were OK when he had a Monte under him. Ha Ha Ha.
Mrrench
4/12/2007 2:20:30 PM
Just think they did not find him until 8pm.
They claim that when they went to his house at 3am he was in the pool house shower.....
Cop got off at 5am and they did not get in touch with him until 8pm that evening.....
 
OK HOW MANY OF US COULD WRECK A VEHICLE, LEAVE THE SCENE, AND NOT GET IN TOUCH WITH
UNTIL 8PM. SOUNDS LIKE HE WAS HIDING SOMETHING IF YOU AS ME.......
I DONT THINK ITS OH I WENT TO SLEEP BEHIND THE WHEEL.....
 
I used to be a big Waltrip fan. For both brothers, now that they went and left Chevy for a shitota I dont care to much for them. Have sold
all my DW junk.....
SpaceRider
4/13/2007 7:07:32 AM
Waltrip says he feels like 'an idiot'
Witness to wreck says driver walked home in his socks
By Jenna Fryer, The Associated Press
April 12, 2007
03:42 PM EDT
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The witness who discovered Michael Waltrip's overturned car initially thought no one survived the accident until the NASCAR driver wiggled out the back window.
The witness, an 18-year-old college student at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, requested anonymity during a phone interview Wednesday with The Associated Press for fear of reprisal from Waltrip's fan base.
But she said she lives near the two-time Daytona 500 winner in Sherrill's Ford, and stumbled upon the accident when she was returning home around 2 a.m. Saturday. She saw an overturned Toyota Land Cruiser in a ditch and rushed over to check on the occupants. She didn't see anyone in the car and no one answered her shouts, so she called 911 for help.



"I didn't go home to avoid anything. I just went there trying to figure out what to do."
Michael Waltrip
"After I got off the phone I was walking around the car again and somebody stuck their foot out the back driver side of the window," she said. "That's when Michael Waltrip got out. He wiggled out the back window. I knew immediately it was him. He just got out the back driver side window and stood up."
The witness said she asked Waltrip how long he'd been in the car and he told her about 10 minutes.
"He was bleeding from his forehead and had some cuts on his fingers and arms," she said. "I told him 'You are really lucky you are alive. I didn't think anybody was alive in there.' We sort of talked for a minute or two, and I told him 911 was on the way, and he just turned around and started walking home.
"I didn't know what to say or what to do. He had a T-shirt and sweat pants and socks on, he might have taken his shoes off in the car, but I wasn't sure. And he just turned around and started walking home in his socks."
Waltrip was charged Saturday evening with reckless driving and failing to report an accident, both misdemeanors. He told police he fell asleep the wheel and woke up to find his car overturned in the gravel.
Waltrip has a May 14 court date in Newton on the charges.
NASCAR spokesman Jim Hunter said NASCAR would talk with Waltrip on Friday in Texas.
Waltrip had a scheduled interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday, but a representative, Brooke Hondros, canceled it, saying Waltrip wasn't feeling well.
But in an interview with The Charlotte Observer, he said he was embarrassed for leaving the scene.
"I just feel stupid," he told the newspaper. "I feel like an idiot because this one is all me."
State trooper B.L. Buchanan said he arrived on the scene to find the wrecked SUV -- which had also hit a telephone pole -- but no Waltrip. He said he went to Waltrip's home to speak to him around 3 a.m., but was unsuccessful in locating the driver.

 Hondros said Waltrip was showering in his pool house and didn't hear the police when they arrived.
Buchanan said his shift ended at 5 a.m., and he finally made contact with Waltrip at 8 p.m. Saturday when he returned to duty and Waltrip called him. The officer met him at Waltrip's home and issued the citation.
Waltrip told The Observer alcohol did not contribute to the accident.
"I didn't go home to avoid anything," he said. "I just went there trying to figure out what to do."
Waltrip is ha
SpaceRider
4/13/2007 7:17:48 AM
 
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