Two boats out for a late-night cruise collided on the waters of Lake Norman on Saturday, killing Dave Rush, a pit crew member with the Winston Cup racing #97 team of Chad Little, said Jack Roush, the team’s owner. Investigators believe Rush died from trauma to the head or chest(That’s Racin’)(6-5-2000) UPDATE: A memorial service will be held at 6pm/et. EST Tuesday for Dave Rush, the race-day pit crew member for Winston Cup driver Chad Little who died Saturday night in a boating accident on Lake Norman (N.C.). Rush, a 48 year-old native of Elkhart, Ind., was involved in a two-boat accident late on Saturday that left two others injured. The accident remains under investigation. The memorial service will take place at the team’s shop in Concord, N.C., and is open to all NASCAR race team personnel. The facility is located next to the Concord Regional Airport at 7050 Aviation Blvd(That’s Racin’)(6-6-2000) UPDATE 2 stickers at Michigan: All five Roush Racing cars will carry special decals honoring Dave Rush, a crew member for Chad Little ‘s team who died in a boating accident last Saturday. Rush had been with Little’s team for four years. He was a shop fabricator and was the catch-can man on Little’s pit crew. The team has named the car it will use at Daytona as “Rush’s Rig” in his memory(Roanoke Times)(6-7-2000)
