It’s sad to hear about events like this.  About an hour away at Skydive Orange, two skydivers came in contact about 200 feet from the ground, causing their parachutes to be tangled and them to fall to the ground.

Francis Wootten III of Ruckersville, Va., 54, was taken to the University of Virginia’s hospital in Charlottesville, where he died of his injuries yesterday morning.  Robert G. Kotenko, 29, of Washington, DC, was also taken to the U-Va. hospital, police said.

The United States Parachute Association explains that skydiving is a relatively safe sport citing only 821 injuries and 18 fatalities, out of nearly 2.2 million jumps in 2007.

[via Washington Post]

A school bus had a little accident around 4:00 p.m. yesterday. The bus was navigating narrow Hangers Mill Road when it drove in a ditch and ran into a tree. Hmmm? Wild ride home anyone? The kids were all okay and the driver is not being sited or charged. I find this odd. If you crashed my baby into a tree I would want you charged with something. Details about the cause of the accident were not disclosed. (This is NOT an Actual Photo from the Accident)

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I think we have bitched repeatedly on this site about the lack of pedestrian consideration in this town.  There are a couple cross-walks of death in cville:

• between the Lewis and Clarke building andthe downtown mall.  And no, that crosswalk button won’t save you
• crossing Monticello Rd at the Carlton Rd intersection.  Cars come blind uphill
• crossing Levy Ave at Avon St
• crossing McIntire Rd to get to the C’ville Coffee shopping plaza

This town is not short on areas that can cause serious injury, fortunately the local gov intends to fix this with $700k.  How?

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