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Tough Enough - Physicist Takes Tree Branch Through Chest, Pulls Car Over

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
January 2, 2012
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 11:32
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National Institute of Standards and Technology theoretical physicist James Baker-Jarvis died in a Colorado hospital after a 3-foot tree branch came through his auto windshield and impaled him during a windstorm.

But even after the 3-inch diameter branch went through his chest, he still held on long enough to pull the Subaru Outback to the side of the road, saving his wife from injury.

If you have to go, saving the life of someone you love is the way to do it right.

R.I.P.

NIST scientist killed after winds send branch his windshield north of Boulder by Mitchell Byars, Daily Camera

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