Laptop turns lethal, kills woman in car crash

A 25-year-old woman was killed in a car accident after her unsecured laptop computer in the backseat turned into a flying projectile and fatally injured the driver.

The family of the accident victim, a Surrey, British Columbia woman, and the RCMP issued a warning to drivers. The warning came after Heather Storey's car was hit by a tow truck in an intersection. The crash did not kill Storey who died of blunt force trauma to the back of her head. Storey's laptop computer was on her back seat and became a projectile in the crash, hitting her head with such force that the computer screen shattered and the frame was bent. "What we believe happened [was] that she was struck in the back of her head and neck with this laptop computer," RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow said . "She simply didn't have it secured within the confines of her car, and ultimately it has been the instrument of her death," he said. Police urge people to keep laptops and other heavy objects locked in the trunk.