Eight Year Old Dies in Virginia Automobile Accident

Dan Frith

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I was saddened to read the story of an 8 year old boy who died last week in a single car accident in Culpeper, Virginia. Virginia State Police reported that Orion Bickings was riding in a 1999 Acura on Lakota Road around 10:20 p.m. when the incident occurred. The driver, Fielding Taylor Kines,of Remington, Virginia apparently lost control of the vehicle and ran off the left side of the road, went over an embankment and rolled several times before he struck a wooden fence and landed in a field. Bickings died at the scene. Neither Taylor nor another young passenger will injured.

I know sad events like this happen every day on American roads.  Every day a mother or father lose a child...a parent...a spouse to an automobile accident.  Why did this article catch my attention?  Because the 8 year old who died was not wearing a seat belt...the two other occupants who survived the crash without injuries were wearing seat belts!

MAKE ALL OCCUPANTS OF YOUR VEHICLE WEAR THEIR SEAT BELTS!  SEAT BELTS SAVE LIVES!