Police: Former Chargers safety Terrence Kiel dies Sat Jul 5, 6:02 AM EDT Former Chargers safety Terrence Kiel was killed after he was thrown from a Chevy sedan he was driving, police said Saturday. Kiel, 27, was driving alone after leaving a party at about 10:15 Friday night when he hit a wall in San Diego's upscale Scripps Ranch neighborhood and was thrown from the car, police Sgt. Alan Hayward said. Kiel was barely breathing when paramedics reached him and he died about an hour later, Hayward said. Friends had tried to keep Kiel from driving home from the party, Hayward said, and witnesses told police he appeared to be driving in the wrong direction when he crashed. Police would not know whether Kiel had been under the influence of drugs or alcohol until toxicology tests were performed, Hayward said. A second-round draft pick out of Texas A&M in 2003, Kiel played four years in the NFL from 2003-2006, all with the Chargers. In February 2007 he pleaded guilty to felony and misdemeanor drug charges for shipping prescription cough syrup to Texas, the most significant of several scrapes with the law. He was released by the team after his plea. Kiel had been led off the practice field and arrested in the locker room by Drug Enforcement Administration agents in September 2006, suspected of shipping at least two parcels of prescription cough syrup, apparently to be mixed with soft drinks to make a concoction known as ``lean.'' The felony charges were later dropped after he completed community service, and he was serving three years probation for the misdemeanor charges. He was cited for urinating in public outside a San Diego nightclub in January 2007, but the city dropped that charge. The Associated Press
wow...27 That is so mother fuckin young. Driving under the influence is NEVER a good idea. For any younger members on this board who may be in highschool...IF you decide to drink make plans AHEAD of time so that you don't put yourself in this situation. I am only 23, but I know a thing or two about this stuff. A friend in my fraternity at college drove drunk last semester and flipped his car. Lucky for him he was COMPLETELY unharmed. It shouldn't take an accident to learn not to do it though.
as allready stated people will never learn, this shit is dangerous and shouldn't be toyed with... driving under the influence of anything is dangerous whether its alcohol, pot, other recreational drugs, or something as innocent as an anti-histamine, plenty of which can cause people to be tired. I know at least two people who popped some benadryl to quell a minor allergy they were dealing with at the time, both fell asleep behind the wheel one crashed into a telephone pole broke an arm and collarbone. and the other woke up with his car in the middle of a corn field a good 4 or 5 hundred yards from the nearest road.... remember cars are killing machines, they are not toys, and at least if you yourself is responsible, that is one less person the world has to worry about potentially doing something stupid and killing innocent people......
"Former Chargers safety Terrence Kiel was killed after he was thrown from a Chevy sedan he was driving" He also wasn't wearing his seat belt. Even with all the other stupid stuff he did, he still might be alive today if he had only "clicked" it. What a waste.
Doesn't sound like he would even be able to find the seatbelt, let alone click it on. Driving the wrong way down the road...he must have been bombed.
