Student killed while sticking head out of roof

[The Straight Story]

Student killed while sticking head out of roof

OSLO, Norway — Police say a French student on a school trip to Norway was killed when he stuck his head out of a roof hatch and slammed into a highway overpass.

Police spokesman Tom Midthaug says the bus was moving about 45 miles per hour (70 kph) when the accident took place Friday afternoon.

He says the 15-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was flown by helicopter from the site of the accident, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Oslo, to a hospital in the Norwegian capital, where he was pronounced dead.

Midthaug says it’s not clear why the boy opened the emergency hatch. The double-decker bus was carrying about 60 French and Norwegian students. 12:10ET 30-04-10

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/04/30/13777611-ap.html

[PCIntern]

1. I'ts like one of those Darwin Awards stories...

shame...

[Jim__]

2. Sad. - n/t

[bpcmxr]

3. Paging Charles Darwin ...

Horrible tragedy, but WTF?

[Touchdown]

4. There was a Six Feet Under episode with that very scenario

The woman was riding an SUV limo, and hit a hanging street sign, but pretty much the same. Life imitates art.:shrug:

[Quantess]

7. Yes, that's the first thing I thought of and I was going to post that.

You beat me to it. It took a grand effort by Frederico to make her look presentable for the open casket.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. There's a reason they call them "roofs."

[Webster Green]

6. Aw jeez..

That's a serious blunt force trauma incident.

Fuck!