January 20, 2005
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I-80 crash claims UNL student’s life
Derek Kieper, a 21-year-old senior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, died early Tuesday morning when the Ford Explorer he was a passenger in travelled off an icy section of Interstate 80 and rolled several times in a ditch. Kieper, who was riding in the back seat of the Explorer, was ejected from the vehicle. Derek, who was thrown from the vehicle, was not wearing a seat belt.
In a column written for the Daily Nebraskan in September, Derek attacked seat belt laws as intrusions on individual liberties and expensive to enforce.
“It is my choice what type of safety precautions I take,” he wrote. “There seems to be a die-hard group of non-wearers out there who simply do not wish to buckle up no matter what the government does. I belong to this group.”
Comments (3)
And I’ve got no problem with that, as long as no one in his family tries to collect insurance or sue anyone, its fine. Don’t wear seat belts, don’t wear motocycle helmets, just don’t ask anyone to help you pay for anything that happens to you.
God watches over fools & children?
I guess God decided this guy was more smartass than fool.
Man, I wonder what the last thing was going through his head other than the windshield…