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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Virginia Tech student dies in skateboarding accident

Senior Sean Logan is the second student to die this school year of injuries suffered on a skateboard.

A Virginia Tech senior died Tuesday from injuries he suffered in a skateboarding accident in Blacksburg last week.

Sean Logan, 21, of Waxhaw, N.C., was injured May 21 while skateboarding on Shenandoah Circle near the intersection of Patrick Henry Drive and Progress Street, said Tom Brown, Tech's dean of students.

He was taken to Montgomery Regional Hospital and later transferred to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he died.

The engineering science and mechanics major is the second Tech student to die from skateboard-related injuries in the past six months. Gregory Weiner, a Virginia Beach freshman, died of head injuries he suffered in a skateboard accident on campus in December.

Brown said the university is considering adding helmet safety to its health education efforts.

Sgt. Nathan O'Dell of the Blacksburg Police Department said a man who lived near the scene found Logan sitting on the ground in a parking lot and bleeding from the back of his head the night the accident occurred.

He was conscious when taken to the hospital by an ambulance. No one witnessed the accident, so it is unclear exactly how Logan was injured, O'Dell said.

An obituary from Heritage Funeral and Cremation Service describes Logan as an avid outdoorsman and an Eagle Scout who enjoyed rock climbing and was a disc jockey at Tech. It also noted that he was an organ donor.

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