Auburn LXA dies in car accident
 

Details are sketchy at this point but this is what I know. An Auburn LXA was killed in a car accident at approximately 4:30 am on Sept. 27. I can't find any details online at this point so there is no link to a story available.

My thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, and brothers at this dark hour.

Additional note: The group of friends had been at a LXA party and had been drinking. I do not know how this will impact the fraternity legally.....thoughts?

Update
 

LXA hosted a band party Friday, Sept 26. Early Sat. morning at about 4:30 a group decided to go for a drive. The driver had been drinking at the party but it is not known what condition he was in at the time they left the party. The driver lost control of the vehicle and left the road, the driver was thrown from the vehicle and the vehicle rolled on top of him. The other passengers of the vehicle survived.

Earlier Greek death @ Auburn
 

It would appear that there was a previous accident at Auburn earlier this week, an accident that claimed the life of a Delta Sigma Phi member - possibly a freshman class pledge!

Looks like we may be in for a rough time of it at Auburn; if the news reports are correct there were two auto accident deaths in less than a week, both involving Greeks.

^^I also discovered this sad news after this post. I created a post in the Hazing/Risk Management forum with a link to the story. It is really quite tragic. Both men were very well liked. The first accident happened on Wed. and involved a freshman Delta Sigma Phi pledge, the second accident involved a sophomore LXA brother.

UPDATE:
Here is a link to the LXA story:
http://www.oanow.com/oan/news/local/...n_wreck/38539/

"according to Lee County Coroner Bill Harris. Speed and alcohol are suspected to be factors, he said"

This was totally avoidable and I thank God that no one innocent was killed in this. Simple; don't drink and drive, period.

My chapter had two serious accidents within a few years of each other similar to these:

In 1998 (I remember because it was the night before Mark McGwire hit his 60th homerun that year) some brothers were at a party. It wasn't a Lambda Chi party, but many were there and one of our brothers wanted to show a girl how fast his 1998 Camaro could go. He was always the guy driving as fast as possible with his stereo turned up so loud you couldn't talk at all. He'd had an accident before, but was fine... this was his 2nd Camaro. He hit an arrow trailer going over 100 mph and the car went airborne and landed on its roof. Because our brother was around 6'5" his head was above the seat and was trapped between the roof and the headrest. He broke his neck and to this day is paralyzed from the waist down. He also has trouble moving his fingers and is blind from one eye due to the fire. I believe he's 33 now. The accident happened when he was around 22 or 23. At the time I was chapter president, but was out of town at a football game in Albuquerque. I heard about it when I got home and received a call from my old associate brother.

In 2002 another brother, a freshman who had just been initiated, was driving home from a local establishment. I believe it was a few hours after Monday meeting. No one is 100% sure where he was going, but he hit a guardrail on a downhill street on campus and his car rolled several times down the road. I believe he had a convertible Mustang. The car also landed on its roof and was lying there for awhile before paramedics arrived. By that time our brother was gone. He was only 18 or 19. He had a lot of friends and this hit the chapter hard. I remember that he and many other active brothers at the time (I had graduated 3 years before) spent the night at my apartment after a night out around a week before that.

While our chapter survived both of these incidents I believe it was only because the fraternity itself wasn't directly responsible for either accident. I hope Auburn is able to survive this tragedy and that it will teach more people about the dangers of DWI... though it often doesn't. Some people need a bigger slap in the head like their own arrest or accident and some literally need divine intervention. Whatever it takes, don't drink and drive.

the lambda chi at auburn was never at the house on friday night

We had an auto related death while I was the High Pi @ Fullerton. I can recall to this day making the 'crisis call' to Indy, the call that no High Pi ever wants to make. I cannot describe how I felt at that moment and I hope to never have to do that again.