I don’t know if the grim reaper was after him, his family is just very unlucky or very bad drivers, but this is kind of freaky.
I think the fact that a truck was involved in both incidents speaks volumes. I can only assume the first accident involved a truck (or van) because rarely, if ever, have I heard of a rollover accident with a sedan which caused the death of a family. I’m willing to bet that at least two out of three of the following criteria are met in the majority of these rollover tragedies (which the press/authorities often conveniently dismiss):
- a large, top-heavy vehicle was being driven in a manner it wasn’t designed for (speeding, weaving, etc.)
- some aspect of that vehicle’s performance/safety countermeasures was being pushed to the limit and/or not functioning due to neglect (brake mechanisms, tire inflation, etc.)
- the occupant(s) were not wearing seat belts (because, I dunno, who the hell needs those things?)
Trucks don’t just roll over and explode, they require neglect and consequent driving abuse by the owner. Sometimes it’s not so much Death’s plan as it is Man’s stupidity. I’m sure he was a good guy and all, and this story strikes a chord because it happened on NYE, but if this happens to you more than once, you’re really not learning what amounts to a valuable lesson about safe driving. Now … how about those folks who wander out into thunderstorms and get hit by lightning multiple times?
Dude, that’s nothing. In the movie, a high school French club all dies (save one teacher and five students,) in a fiery plane explosion. The movie was released about a month before a French class at my high school in my senior year was about to go to France. OK, that’s just bad timing for the movie, and probaly hundreds of high schools had trips to France in April of 2000. Sure, that’s a given…but how many of those high schools had the same name as the high school in Final Destination? Cause mine did. Needles to say, some of the students going on the trip were a litttle freaked out.
A little freaked out? Eh, more like “trip cancellation”, I think. Exactly how many more reasons would you need beyond the similarity of such an event in a horror film mirroring your own reality before you decided not to step on that plane? “Hey look guys, even the flight number is the same as the movie! Hell yeah, I’m ready to DO this!”
That’s a tad too scary as far as coincidences go. Seriously, if you still get on a plane under those circumstances, then I can only borrow a line from the pundit newsman in the film Airplane: “I say, let 'em asplode.”