Dying for an iPod

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100905/lead/lead15.html
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Seventeen-year-old Victoria Marley, an accomplished golfer, ironically, fell to her death from a golf cart last Friday at the world-famous Cinnamon Hill Golf Course in Montego Bay, St James.

Marley was riding the cart from home in the nearby Caribbean Heights to the golf course when the cart overturned while she was trying to retrieve an iPod which had fallen from her lap. She was thrown from the cart, which went over a gully. Family members said that she sustained a head injury and was bleeding from the brain.

Marley was holidaying with her aunt, Cathy Marley, and uncle-in-law Robert Ames, who is director of the golf course at Cinnamon Hill.
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I can't imagine the pain for her family but when you see gully and choose iPod, the decision should be obvious.

to retrieve dropped ipods, cell phones and similar while driving. Common sense, please!

...but if it were my Droid Incredible...;-)

Very sad story.:(

She could have dropped numerous things and tipped the cart over trying to reach for it.

An acquaintance crashed his van when the lunch he had on the dashboard slid off it. Really the object doesn't matter so much as our instinctual grab for things that are falling.

just by the gears and every time I was in her car I would ask what happens the day you have to press brakes suddenly and everything falls out. Then I'd put it on the floor next to me. She eventually stopped that disgusting habit.

Sexists!