More re: Lorne

[pegkerr]

Here's a front page article about Lorne and his wife Rene that was in the Star Tribune today. And this, more about the accident.

What really hurts, and what makes it all seem so stupidly unnecessary, besides the fact that the accident happened at all, was that they were thrown from their car because they weren't wearing safety belts. The man who hit them was going perhaps over 100 mph. But he was wearing his belt, and he lived.

Thanks, papersky, for doing a doughnut toast for him. You know, I don't know if I'll ever see the doughnuts put out on the Fridays from now on without feeling a pang.

Comments

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Having read your last post, and then this one makes me feel incredibly sad.

I am happy that I grew up in Australia, and that wearing seatbelts is a reflex. I'd no more not wear a seatbelt than I'd drive without tires on my car.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Whoa - I had to do a double-take, because my old Maori teacher's name was Lorna Martyn. So close, even though the gender was backwards.

We witnessed an accident less than a week after my mother-in-law's death - a pickup went off the road in a construction zone and rolled. The driver also was thrown from the vehicle (no belt) and died. It was traumatic to see. My mom was lax about belts when I was young (our car's belts were very uncooperative), but my father always insisted, and when Mom got a new car when I was 12, we started using the belts all the time. I can't *not* wear them now - I feel too strange without one.

Again - my condolences.

[bohemianspirit.livejournal.com]

Peg, I am so sorry to hear about this. It hasn't been a very good week for you, has it? Hang in there.

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Don't have any doughnuts handy. Here's a leftover (my last, in fact) piece of Easter candy in memory of Lorne and Rene.

Not wearing my seatbelt is a bad habit I've slipped into. Maybe this sad news will be further encouragement for me to take those extra few seconds.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

That's just tragic. Sympathy for you and your company.

B