One of my students at a high school in Nashville died that way. He was riding the roof of a rice rocket when the driver took a turn too fast and launched him off the vehicle. Headfirst into a curb at 30 MPH is not a good way to go, but at least it was quick. Over 30-something years of teaching at high schools and a state trade school, I lost 6 students- - - - -one to leukemia, three in high speed chases in stolen cars, the car surfer, plus one guy who was beaten to death with a concrete block by a "friend" while they were huffing paint.
