Retired NASCAR driver..

[Gil T.Azell]

Dick Trickle dies of apparent self-inflicted wound

Please hold off on the TASTELESS jokes

A friend of mine who's friends with Richards Brother Chuck, said Chuck had said Dick was in so much pain he couldn't take it anymore.

In 2001, Trickle’s granddaughter Nicole Ann Bowman was killed in a car accident in front of East Lincoln High School. She is buried in the cemetery where police found his truck and body Thursday.

Tom Higgins, a longtime Observer racing writer and friend of Trickle’s, said the former race car driver had been distraught after his granddaughter’s death.

“He never, ever got over that,” Higgins said.

A Video nice piece in tribute.