Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Ko te kaiwaiata me te kaituhi waiata i muri i te waiata rokiroki o te Wairua i te Rangi kei roto i te ahua kino i roto i te hohipera o California i muri i te aitua waka i mate ai tetahi kaieke motopaika. Ko Norman Greenbaum, 72, te kaihihi o tētahi Subaru Outback e haere ana i te taha o te taone o Santa Rosa i te Rāhoroi i te 3.30 i te ahiahi. I tū tētahi motopaika ki roto i te tuawhenua i tētahi tiriti i muri i te kore o te taraiwa, o Bonita Perea, 63, ki te tuku i te motopaika i a ia e huri ana. Panuku ki raro mō te ataata. Ko Greenbaum, 72, i roto i tētahi Subaru Outback i te Rāhoroi i te wā o tētahi tūtukitanga mate i Santa Rosa, California. Kāore te wahine e taraiwa ana i te Outback i te tuku i tētahi tiriti, ā, ka tukituki tētahi motopaika ki te waka. Ko Ihab Usama Halaweh, 20, i tukinga ki te sedan i muri i te kore e taea e ia te whakamutu i tana 2004 Suzuki GSX-R600, a ka mate i te waahi, i kii te Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. Ka mea a Matt Pinheiro, Pirihimana o California Highway Patrol: 'Kaore he tu [i te whakawhitinga], engari ko te taraiwa Subaru i whakaarohia kia tuku ki te waka e haere mai ana, kaore i pera.' Ko tana kaihihi, ko Nhmia Mekonnen Kahsay, 20, i whara kino. I kawea a Kahsay rāua ko Greenbaum ki te hōhipera o Santa Rosa Memorial, ā, i whakarārangitia rātau i te ahiahi o te Rātapu i roto i te āhua kino. Kāore te hōhipera e tuku atu ana i ētahi atu kōrero mō te āhua o te kaiwaiata, ā, i kī mai kua tono tōna whānau kia noho tūmataiti. Ko te waiata hit a Greeenbaum i hokona e rua miriona takitahi mo Warner Brother i te 1969 me te 1970. Ko te puoro, he puoro puoro puoro puoro puoro, kua whakaatuhia i roto i te tata ki te 50 kiriata penei i a Apollo 13 me nga panui mo Gatorade, Nike me American Express. I whakauruhia hoki ki Rock Band 2. Ko Greenbaum, i whanau mai i Malden, Massachusetts, i kii ia i hangai nga kupu wairua o te waiata ki nga kiriata Hauauru. Ko te mea nui o te ao: Ko Norman Greenbaum, e tino mohiotia ana mo tana waiata hit Spirit in the Sky, kua whakarārangitia i roto i te ahua kino. Ka mea ia: 'Kua pupuhihia enei mea kino, kino hoki, a i hiahia ratou ki te mate me o ratou hu. 'Na ki ahau he mea wairua, i hiahia ratou ki te mate me o ratou hu.' Ko te kaikorero o te hōhipera a Vanessa...
Ko Greenbaum, 72, te kaihihi o tētahi Subaru Outback i te Rāhoroi. I kii te pirihimana kaore te taraiwa o te sedan i tuku i te whakawhitinga me te motopaika i pa ki a ia. I mate a Ihab Usama Halaweh, 20, i te waahi i muri i tana tukinga i tana Suzuki 2004. Ko tana kaihihi, ko Nhmia Mekonnen Kahsay, 20, i whara kino. Ko Bonita Perea, 63 tau te pakeke, i werohia, engari kaore i whara kino.