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| Dalai Lama's nephew killed |
| Dalai Lama's nephew killed in car accident in US
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 16-February-2011
11:43:57 AM |
| At the beginning leg of a 500-kilometer walk to promote Tibetan independence from China, the Dalai Lama's nephew was struck and killed by a vehicle along a dark Florida coastal highway, about 400 meters from where he planned to rest for the evening.
Jigme K. Norbu, 45, was heading south in the same direction as traffic, following the highway's white line when he was hit on Tuesday, according to the Highway Patrol.
The impact crumpled the vehicle's hood and shattered the front windshield.
The driver, 31-year-old Keith R. O'Dell of Palm Coast, was not charged
He and his 5-year-old son in the vehicle were not injured.
Norbu, who lived in Bloomington, Indiana, and was active in a Tibetan rights group there, had started with others on Monday on a "Walk for Tibet" from St. Augustine south to West Palm Beach on a highway that runs the length of the state's Atlantic coast.
After one of his companions tired and decided to travel by van to a restaurant, Norbu continued alone and planned to meet them there.
At the accident site, a vase held seven roses on the side of the two-lane highway, where the speed limit is 55 miles (88 kilometers) per hour.
There are no street lights where Norbu was walking, but there is a bike path along the other side of the street, in front of a community centre.
A dishwasher at a nearby restaurant was killed in September along the same stretch of highway as Norbu, who was dead when emergency services arrived.
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