>In a message dated 5/4/99 2:53:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Guy@weller-lakes.freeserve.co.uk writes:
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><< It was the dancer, Isadora Duncan;
> Strangled by her own scarf when it got tangled in the knock-off hub of the
> wire wheels.
> Not sure it wasn't an MG, but may have been something a bit more up market,
> like an 8 litre blower Bentley perhaps ?
> Guy >>
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>Nope. A Bugatti. I found this on the web somewhere:
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>Accidental Strangulation Caused by a Vehicle: The Death of Isadora Duncan.
>Isadora Duncan, one of the world„s most famous dancers, died on 14.
>September
>1927 by accidental strangulation caused by a vehicle. Sitting on the front
>passenger„s seat, Duncan„s scarf came into the the spokes of the rear wheel
>of a Bugatti. The driver, Duncan„s friend Ivan Falchetto could not see
>Duncan
>while looking forward but immediatly stopped immediately after 20 m. Duncan
>died at the scene. In the hospital, fractures of the nose, the spinal column
>and the larynx were oberved; furthermore, cartids were torn. To our
>knowledge, this is the first report of the accident in forensic literature
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