nklr... teen choked to death in motorcycle accident on central coas
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 12:05 am
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25019889-421,00.html
A TEENAGE boy has been choked to death in a bizarre motorcycle accident.
The 16-year-old victim was found dead on a fire trail by a passer-by
off Katara Rd, at Warnervale on the Central Coast.
The Wadalba High School student was making the most of a late start on
Friday because of the teacher's two-hour stop work meeting yesterday
to go riding with mates, The Daily Telegraph reports.
He had gone home to get a rope after one of their bikes became bogged
in sand but when he failed to return his friends dug the bike out by
hand and left.
At 11.30am a passer-by raised the alarm when he discovered the
16-year-old's body strangled by a length of nylon rope.
It appears the teenager was carrying the rope coiled around his head
and shoulder when an end came loose and caught in the chain's
sprockets causing it to instantly tighten around his neck.
Tom
SW Pennsylvania