This weekend, a CSU junior was killed in an accident in the mountains. A group of people were four-wheeling up in the mountains west of Fort Collins, and one of the SUV's, a Toyota 4-Runner, went off the road and rolled.
The part that gets confusing is that every news outlet that I have read has said so far that the driver swerved off the road in order to aviod hitting two oncoming vehicles. But there is a facebook group called Mike Morgan RIP! that informs its members what actually happened.
The driver of the 4-Runner took a turn too sharpley and the car rolled; there were no other cars on the road. The person who wrote on the facebook group wall was driving behind the 4-Runner and saw the whole thing happen.
The victim was a guy named Mike Morgan, an active member of Delta Tau Delta on CSU's campus. The driver was also a Delt named Robert Bowling. Morgan died on Saturday, and Bowling was arrested and thrown in jail with charges of vehicular homicide. It is still not determined whethere alcohol was involved or not.
I heard about this tragedy on Sunday, the 23rd, and went looking all over for some news outlet that had some information. I finally found an article that gave some information, but was absolutely disguisted at what I read in the comments below it. This article is "One dead in off-road accident."
Some of the people who commented on this article said things about how this should be used as a lesson to others, that CSU could have somehow stopped this as well as Greek Life. The most outrageous part of these comments though, was that they believed somehow that the parents of the victim were to blame because they didn't teach their children strongly enough not to drink and drive.
How dare someone blame the parents of this man for something he could not control. Not only that, but CSU and the Greek life are mourning the loss of a fellow student and friend. People, students and Greeks make their own decisions; blaming the organizations they belong to does not change the fact that this was a very tragic incident.
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