It’s a chilly night and here’s Kenny driving around in a Chrysler LeBaron with the top down. He’s wearing a hat, a turtle-neck and gloves, but it’s really cold. He’s 21 and a senior in college, showing off his new convertible to a new coed friend.

As we join the couple, they are speeding toward a stand of highway department barricades blocking the road. There’s heavy equipment parked on the other side of the barriers. Red reflectors are everywhere.

Kenny snakes his way around the barricades, then threads his way through the maze of road building equipment. His girlfriend is delightfully impressed with his driving skill.

What Kenny doesn’t know is that he’s about to drive onto a brand new bridge - a bridge so new the highway department hasn’t even finished building it yet.

Kenny flips his lights on to high-beam. That’s when he realizes that he’s driving on nothing but I-beams - unpaved, open in the air, steel I-beams!

Just about the time Kenny comes to understand that he cannot possibly win in this situation, his car drops between two of the open I-beams.

You do the math! The kid does the only thing he can - he, his new girl friend and that pretty little LeBaron all begin a free-fall to the cement paved road 35 feet below. The only luck Kenny has is that traffic on the road below is not heavy.

The impact is enough to break Kenny’s neck. He no longer has the use of his arms or his legs.

The girl breaks both her legs and cracks her skull when her head bounces off the dashboard. Neither one is wearing a seat belt. You knew that!

There’s one thing more. Police say that alcohol was an important factor in this crash. You surprised?