Harry Chapin

Harry Chapin was a folk-rock balladeer best known for his song “Taxi”. He enjoyed moderate success during the seventies. On July 16th of 1981 while on his way to a benefit concert in New York City on the Long Island expressway when he was involved in a traffic accident that proved fatal. He was driving a VW Beetle and rear-ended a tractor trailor and fried to death. Harry Chapin was 38 years old.