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SAN DIEGO -- Former San Diego Chargers safety Terrence Kiel was killed after he was thrown from a sedan he was driving, police said Saturday.
Kiel, 27, was driving alone after leaving a party at about 10:15 p.m. PT Friday night when he hit a wall in San Diego's upscale Scripps Ranch neighborhood and was thrown from the car, police Sgt. Alan Hayward said.
Kiel was barely breathing when paramedics reached him and he died about an hour later, Hayward said.
Friends had tried to keep Kiel from driving home from the party, Hayward said, and witnesses told police he appeared to be driving in the wrong direction when he crashed.
Police would not know whether Kiel had been under the influence of drugs or alcohol until toxicology tests were performed, Hayward said.
A second-round draft pick out of Texas A&M in 2003, Kiel played four years in the NFL from 2003 to 2006, all with the Chargers.
In February 2007 he pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor drug charges for shipping prescription cough syrup to Texas, the most significant of several scrapes with the law.
He was released by the team after his plea.
Kiel had been led off the practice field and arrested in the locker room by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in September 2006, suspected of shipping at least two parcels of prescription cough syrup, apparently to be mixed with soft drinks to make a concoction known as "lean."
The felony charges were later dropped after he completed community service, and he was serving three years' probation for the misdemeanor charges.
He was cited for urinating in public outside a San Diego nightclub in January 2007, but the city dropped that charge.

SAN DIEGO -- Former Chargers linebacker Steve Foley has agreed to settle his lawsuit for $5.5 million against a police officer who shot him while off-duty two years ago, ending his pro football career.
Foley struck the agreement with the city of Coronado and Officer Aaron Mansker last week, on the day he was scheduled to testify in his civil trial in San Diego Superior Court, but the terms were not released until Monday.
"He's going to be able to get on with his life and bring some closure," said Foley's attorney Harvey Levine.
The Coronado City Council approved the settlement Monday, said Mayor Tom Smisek.
The city, an upscale peninsular enclave on San Diego Bay, will pay the entire $5.5 million, Smisek said. Insurance will cover all but $100,000, which will come out of city coffers.
City Attorney Steve Boehmer, who represents the city and Mansker, did not respond to a phone message.
Foley, 32, was shot in his leg, hip and hand in September 2006 after Mansker tailed his car home from downtown San Diego to suburban Poway, 15 miles north, on suspicion that the driver was drunk.
Mansker, then a 23-year-old rookie officer, was driving his personal car and wearing a T-shirt and jeans when he twice pulled up next to Foley and ordered the player to pull over. Foley ignored the orders and drove home because Mansker didn't identify himself as a police officer, Levine said during the trial.
The two men confronted one another in Foley's cul-de-sac. Mansker testified at the trial that he fired when he saw Foley reach for his waistband, thinking the player had a gun.
Foley pleaded guilty in 2007 to misdemeanor drunken driving.
He was released two years early from his contract with the Chargers in March 2007 and has moved to Houston, where he is caring for his 11-year-old daughter and plans to complete his college degree, Levine said.
Mansker was cleared of criminal liability after the San Diego County district attorney's office found he shot in self-defense. Mansker was honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving at a luncheon in March for making 57 drunken-driving arrests in 2007.

LONDON -- Four women who took part in sadomasochistic role-playing with motor racing chief Max Mosley told a court Tuesday that the event was not the "Nazi-themed orgy" described in a tabloid newspaper.
Mosley, 68, is suing the News of the World for invasion of privacy over a March story that alleged he attended a five-hour sex session in which participants played concentration camp inmates and guards.
Mosley, the son of late British fascist leader Oswald Mosley, acknowledges a lifelong interest in sadomasochism, but said Monday that he found the idea of Nazi sex fantasies abhorrent. He said he and the women acted out a German prison scenario, but without any Nazi aspect.
On Tuesday, one of the women -- labeled "Mistress Switch" by the newspaper -- told the High Court that she organized "spanking parties" attended by Mosley, whom she knew as Mike.
The woman, whose identity is protected by a court order and was called "A" in court, said Mosley was "an extremely charming, mild-mannered and interesting man." She denied there were Nazi overtones to their activities.
"I would not contemplate putting on such scenes, which I would find distasteful, and I would expect most people to be disgusted at the suggestion of a Nazi theme and respond similarly," she said.
She said that S&M role-play was "like children playing Cowboys and Indians, it's adults having fun."
Another woman, identified as "D," said the scenario they acted out that day was a "prison fantasy."
"I did not see anything Nazi," she said.
A third woman, "B," said she had joined in the activities wearing a suspender belt, stockings, high heeled shoes and a German Luftwaffe jacket that she had bought in London's Camden Market.
B, who is German, was asked if it had been a Nazi scenario.
"Under no circumstances, and I'm very upset and offended because it is an insult and offense if a newspaper equates German with being Nazi -- my grandparents were not members of that party," she said.
A fourth woman, "C," said she had attended between five and eight parties with Mosley and also denied there had been any Nazi overtones.
The fifth woman at the March encounter, identified as "E," covertly recorded it for the News of the World.
After the story broke, Mosley faced calls to quit as president of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, which oversees Formula One racing. Despite the pressure, the FIA chief won a confidence vote last month allowing him to stay until his fourth term ends in October 2009.
Mosley's lawyers say the expose devastated his family and are demanding the tabloid pay large punitive damages to discourage similar stories.
The News of the World says readers have a right to know about the behavior of Mosley because he is a public figure and his conduct was reprehensible.