In February| 2006| young Luke Abbate accepted a ride home from a fellow student following his high-school team practice. In a severe case of irresponsible and
reckless teen-age driving| and over the objections of Luke and the other young passengers| the driver lost control of the car at nearly 90 miles-per-hour| spinning
off a narrow road and landing in an embankment some seventy feet below. Luke suffered irreparable brain damage| and died in the hospital two days later - just four
days before his sixteenth birthday.