New sport?

Car Surfing Kills Teens
CDC report shows typical victims are males from Midwest, South
-- Robert Preidt

THURSDAY, Oct. 16 (HealthDay News) "? Parents need to talk their teens about the dangers of car surfing, in which people ride on the outside of a moving vehicle, a new government report shows.

To come to this conclusion, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reviewed articles about car surfing published in U.S. newspapers from January 1990 to August 2008.

There were 99 articles about car surfing incidents, including 58 that ended in fatalities. Injuries and deaths occurred at a wide range of vehicle speeds, ranging from 5 mph to 80 mph. The average age of those injured or killed was 17.6 years old, and males accounted for 70 percent of the victims.

The CDC researchers also found:

Most car surfing injuries and deaths occurred in August, and 74 percent of the incidents occurred in the Midwest and the South.
In 75 percent of cases, death was caused by a bump or blow to the head.
In 29 percent of the articles, there was mention of a sudden vehicle movement or maneuver, such as an abrupt turn or sudden braking, which caused the person car surfing to fall off the vehicle. Even at slow speeds, these types of falls can cause serious injuries or death.

http://health.msn.com/kids-health/ar...8321&GT1=31036

one of the first times I got pulled over was becasue (22 years ago) we had the top down on my car and a guy was standing up on the car "surfing" while we were driving downtown on the street behind the coalfield.

A cleansing of the gene pool .

Not something that if you said outloud, would even remotely sound like a good Idea.

Hell I think every teenager or young person has done something like that.

I blame it on teen wolf. I remember when the movie came out there was a big deal about him riding on top of a box truck.

Only scholars know it's a great idea to stand atop a moving vehicle.

I picked alot of rocks out of my scalp back in 92 doing this exact same thing. The driver hit a peacock...and I'm not kidding....there's just not very much room for ur feet on the trunk of a rented convertible Sun Bird..lol...and it is hard to stand there no matter how low ya get

Where the hell was you at to hit a Peacock?

Hawaii....they run wild over there like pigeons...it sucked

Car surfing is fun no pain no pleasure i say . Keep it up and it'll be the next featured sport of the X Games

This is rediculous.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: R13</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hell I think every teenager or young person has done something like that. </div></div>

Can't say i've ever surfed on any kidna of moving object..especially a car..

What I am saying is, its not some rapidly growing sport or problem like they are making it out to be.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: regiondsports</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This is rediculous. </div></div>
It's called humor.. i was joking

R13 is right, there's a whole lot more things parents should be worried about than this.

Now " Ghost riding the whip" that really is fun !!!

When ya gotta new car.. and ya feelin' like a star.. Man watcha gonn do? Ghost ride ya whip!