In spite of all our differences, the one thing that binds all living creatures is that we each have an expiration date. This finality to our existence is what makes life special, something to be cherished and protected. But occasionally things can go terribly wrong…
Nov
13th
Author: Taz |
Files under Casualties: Low, Traffic Accidents
In a sad demonstration of cosmic irony, a North Carolina teenager who studied teen highway deaths as a high school project is dead after a car crash. Shannon Nicole Adkins, 18, graduated last spring. Her senior project was a report about the risks young drivers face on rural roads.
Adkins was driving a pickup truck when another pickup crossed the center line and struck Adkins head-on. The other driver, a 29-year-old woman, was hospitalized in fair condition and charged with driving while impaired. Adkins was the 27th Johnston County, NC teen to die in a car wreck since 2006 and the second in a week.
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