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Claim: TLC's Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes was murdered in a revenge killing.
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and at the height of TLC's popularity (the group's 1999 album, FanMail, topped the U.S. pop charts and sold more than Foul play had no part in Lisa Lopes' death; her demise was the result of her recklessness and bad driving. Speeding on a Honduran highway in an SUV containing nine people, she had been attempting to pass a car when a truck approached from the other lane, forcing her to veer sharply to the left. The Mitsubishi Montero she was driving struck two trees and flipped over several times. None of the eight passengers were seriously injured, but Lopes was killed instantly in the crash, dying of a massive blow to the head and a fracture at the base of her cranium. The facts of the fatal accident are not in dispute — Lopes had been speeding and had been trying to pass another vehicle. No one could have engineered such a set of circumstances, so all thought that the singer had been killed by someone other than herself should be dismissed. But there was something to the rumor — roughly three weeks earlier a vehicle bearing Lopes had caused the death of a Honduran youngster. Around
The accident was never reported to police or the judiciary, and no autopsy was performed (as required under Honduran law in deaths not by natural causes). Lopes paid about Eerily, an earlier vehicular child fatality also involved Lopes. In 1993, a 10-month-old boy died from head injuries suffered when his mother leapt with him from a car rolling down a hill. Lopes had parked her BMW outside a house in Atlanta and taken the keys with her when she went into the home. While waiting in the car, the child's mother had turned to tend to her son, who was in a infant carrier in the back seat. The woman inadvertently knocked the car out of gear, sending it coasting down a hill. Although she managed to get the baby free of the seat and get out of the moving vehicle with him, the leap from a moving car resulted in blunt head trauma for the infant who later died in hospital of his injuries. No one was charged in the accident. Barbara "destiny's child" Mikkelson Last updated: 15 May 2007 This material may not be reproduced without permission. snopes and the snopes.com logo are registered service marks of snopes.com.  Sources:
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