R.I.P Sam Cox

Last night around 10:30pm one of my best friends passed away in a car accident. He was on e of the best all around people I've ever known. He was on his way to see his girlfriend when it happened.

Here's a link to a write-up one of my friends did on myspace, the picture sums him up pretty much http://bulletin.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bulletin.read&messageID=1943312109&MyToken=088c8f1e-1c2c-4307-ad5a-49c43ed21a6b

It was his Halloween costume. He was just so different, funny, and had everything going for him. Sam, I'm gonna miss you as my spanish partner and listening to your jokes at lunch..rest well. I hope I see you on the other side

automobiles are such a great help in our travel, but soo many deaths wouldnt be if they were never invented. im very sorry for your loss.

I'm sorry man. a moment of silence for him........

Weak.

Sorry for your loss man :(

sorry to hear that. can someone copy/paste here, i don't have a myspace and cant view the link.

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I'm sorry for your loss, and I also can't view the site...I didn't really know the guy...especially because myspace sucks...but If I did know what kinda of person he was, I'd say he will live on in all of us.

Do you wish the automobile was never invented? Was this Sam a car-guy?

I'm really sorry for your loss...I hope you and everyone else that knew him gets through it.

R.I.P.
My condolences..

My prayers go out to you and his family.

I'm so sorry, may he Rest in peace...

http://img157.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mowhawkfh0.jpg we all got mowhawks with his soccer number lat night. I cut off 9 inches of hair. I cant get the page any more on myspace

here's the article written by one of his chick friends.

WAKULLA COUNTY, FLA. - A Gulf County teen is dead after a one vehicle traffic crash. The accident happened around 10:30 Thursday night on Highway 319, south of Sopchoppy.

Officials with the Florida Highway Patrol say 17-year-old Samuel J. Cox was traveling south when he drove off the road and then over corrected. The car then rotated, slid across both lanes of traffic and slid into a ditch, hitting a utility pole.

Cox was thrown from the vehicle and killed.

Im going to miss him so much. I have so many good memories with him and I can't completely take in that hes gone. I love him so much like a brother and I just wish I could have hugged him one last time I'm just glad the last thing i said to him was "I love you man". Its unfair to die so young...he was only 17.


http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a156/errrrg/1367977174_l.jpg

My thoughts and prayers are with his friends and family.

So he wasn't wearing his seatbelt?

No, he wasn't wearing a seat belt. The scene investigator said that his chances of survival were minimal even with the belt. It still hasnt sunk in yet. I'm half way expecting him to just sit up and say "screw you guys for peeing in my pool"

I remember when a friend of mine died in high school. I kinda expected him to show up to class the next day and take his usual share of my leftover skittles from lunch.

WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT!!!!! I mean no disrespect at all but since I was about 5 yrs old I've been taught to wear a seatbelt, no matter how much it hurt, or was annoying. It's absolutely key and I don't even think about it.

we're getting stickers printed out with sam on them that say "buckle up for sam" we think, that maybe his death won't be in vain if he can help us save a life. We're going to pass them out at school

i'm sorry, but i just find it hard to feel sorry for someone who didn't take that smallest of precautions; wearing a seatbelt. regardless of the experts saying there was little chance of survival if he was wearing the belt, that chance is always there. it's just stupid not to wear it. in my eyes it's close to signing your own death warrant. i've seen that to be true a number of times.

agreed that it wasn't smart to drive unrestrained, but a death is a death, and always unfortunate, no matter the terms of it. Through Sam's example, hopefully more drivers will remember to bucke-up. (It's too bad the constant signs on the roads that say "Buckle-up, its the law" or "Seatelts save lives" doesn't do much, until someone they know suffers)

Yeah I think that's a teriffic idea, also, I think street cars should be built with roll cages...depending on the application...okay maybe not but when you think about accidents on the road, don't deaths generally occur in older cars or that the age of them makes them more dangerous. I know you're gonna hate me for this but they should restrict older cars that are less safe from driving on highways. It's only a theory I just came up with right now.

Yeah I think that's a teriffic idea, also, I think street cars should be built with roll cages...depending on the application...okay maybe not but when you think about accidents on the road, don't deaths generally occur in older cars or that the age of them makes them more dangerous. I know you're gonna hate me for this but they should restrict older cars that are less safe from driving on highways. It's only a theory I just came up with right now.


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How about better drivers education? Raising the legal age limit? In fact, the #1 vehicle for deaths from 2000-2003 was the 99/02 Chevy Blazer. Hardly a "older vehicle".

cars are going to crash. period. new or old, It is only as strong as its weakest link...the human factor.