http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/ Engadget Comments for Canadian killed by unsecured laptop during car wreck http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/
So, just do what's pictured above and you'll be fine.]]>Apr 16th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 17th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 17th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 18th 2009 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/
At any rate, this laptop is a good example of why you should always make sure your rear seat passengers are wearing their seatbelts. I have a friend who has the annoying habit of always secretly taking her seatbelt off in the back seat of my car when I wasn't looking. Then one day my car got sideswiped by a bus (thankfully the way it hit my car it only pulled my bumper and front fender off) while she had again taken her seatbelt off. And now she always remembers to wear her seatbelt.

If the bus had hit my car at a slightly different angle she'd have been a human projectile like this laptop. And not only would she be hurting herself badly, people unbelted passengers can fly into the other passengers in a car, including the front passengers and injure or kill them. Two skulls smashing into each other at 50mph isn't good.]]>Apr 17th 2009 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/
*runs away*]]>Apr 16th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/
Can you recall the last time you read an article about a fatal car accident, that involved a woman behind the wheel?]]>Apr 16th 2009 5:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/
On the other hand, Engadget's suggestion to keep the laptop secured behind the driver's seat wouldn't have helped much, since that's where it was and it had actually come from of the case it was contained in.

Bravo on *actually* reading the articles guys.]]>Apr 16th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/]]>Apr 16th 2009 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 19th 2009 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: That's not the way to get ahead in life.
Vanessa Kensington: No.
Austin Powers: It's a shame he wasn't more headstrong.
Vanessa Kensington: Hmm.
Austin Powers: He'll never be the head of a major corporation.
Vanessa Kensington: Okay, that'll do.
Austin Powers: Okay.
]]>Apr 16th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/They found out it was Dell, and that the accident was apparently a suicide attempt. A self-written suicide note written on MS Word said, "I can no longer go on being a Dell. I'm far inferior. Give my best to the Adamo and the upcoming smartphone."]]>Apr 16th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/
My question is, does her car not have a head rest? When I sit in my car, my whole body covered from the back by the seat itself and the headrest. Even if the person's tall, it can be extended and the bars would probably hold the laptop from going through.]]>Apr 16th 2009 2:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/canadian-killed-by-unsecured-laptop-during-car-wreck/Apr 16th 2009 4:12PM