Canadian killed by unsecured laptop during car wreck

[wraggster]

Here's a tip folks: don't get in car wrecks. If you someday find such a situation unavoidable, however, here's another: keep that laptop of yours in the trunk, or at least in a case tucked down behind the driver's seat. Mounties in British Columbia are reporting that a Canadian woman who perished in a car accident last month was actually killed by the laptop within her vehicle. As the story goes, the 25 year old's vehicle was struck by a tow truck, flinging her laptop into the rear of her head. A coroner pegged the cause of death as a "blunt force trauma," and investigators believe that the whole thing was survivable had the machine not been in the back seat. Not surprisingly, officials are using the incident to encourage others to secure their belongings whilst traveling.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/c...ing-car-wreck/

[Shrygue]

Ouch, that's mighty painful. Better remember to keep those computer secured before driving out folks, lest that soft of accident happen to you.