tragic loss

Yesterday at about 10 till 5, I get a phone call informing me that a friend had been in a motorcycle accident and died. What a sucky way to end the day! Granted, I was not close to 'Ox' in any way, but a lot of my other close friends were. It's a hard hit to lose yet another friend in this way, all because some stupid driver wasn't paying attention (ohh, "the sun was in my eyes.") Why can't people just slow down when they are having problems like that? I don't know all the specifics of the accident but still...
anyways~