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Wednesday November 28, 2007

Hulk Hogan’s son was involved in a 100mph road race when he lost control and ploughed into a tree, leaving his best friend fighting for his life, according to police.

Nick Bollea, 17, has been charged with reckless driving after the crash in which John Graziano suffered serious head injuries and probable permanent brain damage.

Police has also revealed that wrestling legend Hogan – being divorced by his wife Linda – was seen buying beer for a group of his son’s friends, earlier that day.

They say Bollea was racing his Toyota Supra against a Dodge Viper in which another close friend, Barrett Lawrance, was a passenger.

Lawrance told police the Viper was travelling around 100 mph at the time of the accident on a road with a 40mph speed limit. Asked if Jacobs and Bollea were driving recklessly, Lawrance said: “This is how they always drive.”

Linda Berry-Robinson, the mother of Graziano’s girlfriend, also told police she overheard Jacobs saying he was driving the Viper at more than 100 mph, according to documents released by police in Clearwater, Florida, where the accident happened.

The report says Bollea and his friends spent the day of the accident on a boat with Hogan. Bollea’s friends, who are all at least 21 years old, were drinking beer. No one reported seeing Bollea drinking alcohol, although it was found in his system after the crash.

A witness has she was on her way home from work when the Supra and the Viper pulled up on either side of her at an intersection. The drivers “kind of acknowledged each other,” she said.

“The light turned green, and they hauled serious a**: they were weaving around,” she said. “The silver car smoked the yellow car, and the yellow car completely lost control and flipped over and turned and twisted.”

Bollea’s attorney, Morris “Sandy” Weinberg, said he had not yet seen the documents. But he said his client was not driving 100 mph. “The scientific evidence doesn’t support anything like that,” Weinberg said.