sentences:  In January 1992, a suit filed by Baldwin's wife Deborah, claiming the window net had allowed her husband's head to strike the wall, was decided in favor of NASCAR, which was cleared of negligence by a 12-person state district court jury.After eleven years in a coma, Baldwin died two days after his 42nd birthday in 1997.The fatality was the first driver death in the history of Michigan International Speedway.