Surtees was tragically unlucky; Massa was more fortunate but he believes the coincidence of two outlandish accidents is a warning.
The couple have now unraveled the astonishing coincidence, which leads back to Mrs Rococo Farte's native Lancashire, where many of her family still live.
A three-time strikeout leader in Japan's Central League, Igawa is certain to be compared by some to Boston's Daisuke Matsuzaka during the course of the regular season, based simply upon the coincidence of their rookie seasons for heated rivals in the AL East.
For years I regarded this coincidence as the luckiest turning point in my life.
Serendipity and coincidence are the photosynthesis of romance, hinting at some kind of supernatural preordination, the sense that two people are made for each other.
By coincidence, an unrelated report suggests that vaccines may also have an important part to play in tackling Alzheimer's disease, which tends to afflict longer-lived people in richer countries.
The two movements appear to have been separated and independent, but their close coincidence in date is significant.
For what those West Wing fans stunned by the similarity between the fictitious Matthew Santos and the real-life Barack Obama have not known is that the resemblance is no coincidence.
It's not a coincidence that many people in hotter regions of the world eat spicy food.
It is probably no coincidence that it was Dutch doctors who most heroically resisted pressure to join in the Nazi medical atrocities that have given euthanasia its worst name.
What makes one person a Gandhi or a Dr Martin Luther King? Is it pure coincidence or do such inspirational historic figures have some special powers?
Is there any truth to the idea that your name affects your career, or is it merely statistical coincidence?
Bode's law, it seemed, was just a coincidence, an example of the human mind's tendency to find a meaningful pattern where none exists.
She has by coincidence or design made the bombshell announcement at a very opportune moment.
That was a really creepy coincidence.