Something to think about while you're driving around with stuff loose in your car: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/15/bc-surrey-laptop-crash-kills-woman.html?ref=rss
Police in Surrey, B.C., are warning people to secure their belongings while driving after a young woman was apparently killed by her laptop last month.
Heather Storey, 25, of Delta died after the small car she was driving was hit by a tow truck turning left.
When investigators looked into the incident, however, they concluded she would have survived if not for her laptop computer.
Storey was on her way out of town for work at the time of the accident and usually kept her laptop in a backpack in the backseat, according to her brother Michael Pratt.
"What we believe happened [was] that she was struck in the back of her head and neck with this laptop computer," RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow said Wednesday morning at the Surrey detachment, east of Vancouver "She simply didn't have it secured within the confines of her car, and ultimately it has been the instrument of her death," he said Her brother and mother also spoke at the detachment, warning others to take precautions to avoid similar preventable accidents.
"We miss Heather a lot. There is a whole lot to talk about, but I think mainly we're just trying to address the issue of, maybe, try not to keep stuff that can get airborne or hit you, just because your family, and people that care about you, really will miss you when you're gone," said Pratt.
4 comments:
Maybe everybody should start wearing helmets in the car! After all the Zamboni driver does!
(ps liberal types I'm making a joke)
Hmm what should we watch out for?
* 1 death by computer to the back of the head.
* 6 deaths due to avalanche this year
We should ban avalanches!
Ban? Who said anything about banning stuff? I just said it was something to think about.
But if we're gonna ban stuff then we need to ban walking around with earphones in. Last year a guy died because he was listening to his music and got hit by a silent helicopter falling out of the sky. I mean, we could save a lot of lives that way (tongue in cheek)
Considering this...
Reverend Adelir Antonio di Carli is the 2008 winner of the Darwin Award - which each year commemorates people who took themselves out of the gene pool by dying in a stupid fashion.
The Catholic priest had been trying to set a 19-hour world record for clustered balloon flight when winds scooped him up and carried him out to sea.
Despite taking a survival suit, selecting a buoyant chair, and packing a satellite phone and a GPS the priest died because he didn't know how to work his GPS and tell rescuers where he was.
It wasn't until three months later his body was discovered off the coast of Brazil.
....we should ban electronic devices, wind, chemistry, physics, gravity and balloons.
Phew...the world will now be a safer place.
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