[Lonesome in Massachussets]

70 years old, driving too fast, only person you hurt is yourself... hmmmm... not such a bad way to go.

I read somewhere that a high percentage of such accidents were suicides. There was a kid in my H.S. whose father was a member of the NYC Council. His father died, much younger than 70, in a similar accident. I always suspected it was one step ahead of a grand jury true bill of indictment.

I remember driving south on the Belt Parkway one Sunday, just south of Belmont Park, a huge traffic back up. Some guy in a GTO had center punched a bridge abutment. You could see him sitting dead, face covered in blood, bolt upright in the drivers seat. I always suspected he left the mortgage money at the track.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

I read somewhere that a high percentage of such accidents were suicides.

Not the brightest way to attempt it - the odds of surviving and living for decades with some crippling injury, brain damage or chronic pain are way too high. Even if it were guaranteed to succeed, there are less physically painful ways to go.