One morning on the way to work, I happened on an accident. A boy, student at the nearby high school was breathing his last breaths, laying face down in a small stream.
He rode his motorcycle to school every morning and counted coup on the cars he passed. On this morning he did not meet his standard. He told friends he was going back home and start again to better his record.
On his way home he struck a car that pulled out into his path. He flew over the car, across the road and hit a culvert wingwall with his face.
Was he helmeted?
I have a somewhat similar story, if even more tragic. A guy in the class ahead of me cut school for “senior skip day” and planned on spending a fine May morning riding around in his new motorcycle. There were a lot of curvy S-type roads in this area, and the kid lost it speeding on one of them and went headfirst into a reinforced metal fence. I think he died instantly.
The really awful thing though...the bike was an early graduation present from his parents. He was due to get his diploma in less than two weeks.