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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.
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Caesar Cubillos
ΛXA
ZE 631
Univ. of Texas at El Paso (UTEP)
Last edited by Cube TX; 10-01-2008 at 01:18 AM.
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