That happened to a colleague of mine.  Former colleague.  Well, to his wife.
He was on his motorcycle, she was driving behind.  He skidded and hit a tree
as she watched.  He died in her arms at the side of the road.

It doesn't get much worse than that.  Except they weren't newlyweds.

J.

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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon

For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://users.rcn.com/jhecht/gypsy

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:::> Stay awake, stay off the phone and stay alive.
:::> Hope it was not someone from the list.
:::>     sympathies to the wife, gary
:::> Newlywed man dies in crash as wife watches
:::>
:::> SF COUPLE'S VEHICLES HELD WEDDING GIFTS
:::>
:::> By Chuck Carroll
:::>
:::> Mercury News
:::>
:::>
:::> A newly married man was killed Monday night in
:::> Mountain View when he crashed into a tree as his wife
:::> looked on from a separate vehicle, the highway patrol
:::> said today.
:::>
:::> Both their vehicles were carrying wedding gifts as the
:::> two headed for their new home in San Francisco after
:::> dining with relatives in the Santa Cruz County town of
:::> Aptos, said Officer Christian Oliver.
:::>
:::> The 29-year-old man and his 23-year-old wife spoke on
:::> their cell phones as they drove. The man mentioned he
:::> was getting sleepy, his wife told police. At about
:::> 11:10 p.m. -- not long after he hung up -- his wife
:::> watched as his gold 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon drift to
:::> the left lane of northbound Highway 85 in Mountain
:::> View, then swerve to the right and crash into a tree
:::> south of the El Camino Real ramp.
:::>
:::> The man, whose name was being withheld this morning
:::> until relatives could be notified, was pronounced dead
:::> at the scene. No one else was injured in the crash.
:::> Alcohol did not appear to be a factor, Oliver said,
:::> although that would be routinely investigated.
:::>
:::> Oliver said the couple wed last week in Georgia and
:::> had just returned to California after their honeymoon.
:::>
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