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The State - News from Jan. 29, 1986

A motorist died in Livermore after a man angry about cars speeding down his street hurled a four-foot metal drive shaft through the automobile windshield, police said. James G. Puls, 22, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory warehouse worker, was driving past the home of Clifford E. Sutton, 42, at a speed reportedly in excess of the 25 m.p.h. limit when Sutton threw the 30- to 50-pound drive shaft “like a javelin,” Police Capt. Lee Evanson said. Police estimated that Puls was driving between 25 and 40 m.p.h. He died of massive head injuries.

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