
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 10, 1994                   TAG: 9404100027
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C-8   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: ORLANDO, FLA.                                LENGTH: Short

FORMER BENGALS DB BILLUPS DIES IN CAR WRECK

Former Cincinnati Bengals defensive back Lewis Billups, mired in legal troubles since leaving the NFL, died Saturday when the car he was driving on Interstate 4 spun out of control, police said.

Billups was driving at about 100 mph when the accident occurred. Also killed was Danny Green of Kissimmee, a passenger in the Corvette, police said.

Billups, 30, died at Orlando Regional Medical Center after being thrown from his convertible in the 1 a.m. accident, Lt. Jack Stacey of the Orlando Police Department said.

The accident occurred after a car driving in front of Billups' Corvette changed lanes to exit the interstate in Orlando. The driver of the car, 20-year-old Marisol Soto of Orlando, stopped to tell police about the crash.

The two passengers died after they were thrown from the Corvette, which hit a signpost and then a guardrail that impaled the car, Stacey said.

"It was awesome wreckage, the way the guardrail impaled the car," Stacey said. "Billups was ejected and died from injuries sustained in the accident."

- Associated Press

Keywords:
FATALITY

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