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Title: Bride Dies in Motorcycle Crash on Way to Reception Minutes After Marrying New Husband
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/bride-dies-motorcycle-crash-way-001500265.html
Published: Nov 10, 2015
Author: Inside Edition
Post Date: 2015-11-10 17:13:43 by BTP Holdings
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Bride Dies in Motorcycle Crash on Way to Reception Minutes After Marrying New Husband By Inside Edition 21 hours ago An Illinois bride died just minutes after saying "I do" to the love of her life when the motorcycle she and her groom were riding to their reception crashed, family said. Jana Miles-Burnett exchanged vows with William Burnett, 31, in a city park in Buckner, Illinois about 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The couple had met through friends and decided to wed after a whirl-wind romance, family told INSIDE EDITION. "After two months, they knew they wanted to be together," the woman's daughter, Sarah Smillie, said. "There wasn't a time that I had seen her happier. If they were together, she was smiling," Smillie, 22, told IE. The wedding ceremony reflected their relationship and was light and full of love, she said. "I’ve never been to a wedding where there was so much laughter. They were stumbling over each other's words because they were nervous, but they were laughing," Smillie said. "It was the most relaxed and funny thing I've ever seen at a wedding." After being pronounced husband and wife, the couple hopped on Burnett's motorcycle and waved on family to start a procession to the reception, Smillie's husband, Khole Smillie said. Read: Engaged Couple Who Discovered They Were Preschool Sweethearts Return to Old School "They went to do the procession and they wanted them (Miles-Burnett and Burnett) to go first, but Jana waved everyone on because she wanted to be the last one," Khole Smillie said. "They all got to the reception and they saw ambulances and firetrucks going back." It was during the procession that a deer ran onto the road and into the newlyweds' lane, causing a crash that threw Miles-Burnett, 40, to the ground. "There were three or four motorcycles together and William tried to swerve and did everything he could. It (the deer) had turned around and darted right at the bike. There's some things you cannot control," Khole Smillie said. "Deer were going crazy that night. It's mating season and it's a rural road. Coming back, we saw 30 deer in a 20-minute ride running across the road." Still wearing her wedding gown, Miles-Burnett was rushed to the hospital but could not be saved and was pronounced dead an hour later. "At least she didn't suffer. Everybody else just suffers the pain now," Khole Smillie said. Her new husband suffered minor injuries in the crash. "We've seen each other every day since then," Smillie said of her mother's husband, who in less than a day of being married, became a widower. "He's holding up. He's like me. Every hour or so he breaks down." The family is working to stay strong for Miles-Burnett's 14-year-old son, Cody Miles, they said. "She did everything she had to to make sure me and and my brother were taken care of," Smillie said. "My brother's not doing good. He's taking it hard. But it's been amazing how many people truly cared about her and are reaching out to help us at this time. It's amazing." In just one day, people have donated nearly $1,500 to a GoFundMe page created by Khole Smillie to offset memorial and funeral costs. "Jana was my mother-in-law, a true inspiration, and a loving soul," he wrote. "She accepted me into her family with open arms and constant giggling and laughter. In my two years of being a part of their family, not once did I witness Jana in a bad mood!" Miles-Burnett worked as a 911 dispatcher for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, where she served as a surrogate mother to those she guided, her son-in-law said. "She looked over local officers and she looked over me and she definitely helped me and Sarah along," he said. "And she just cared about her two kids and her family." "I've never met anyone like her," Khole Smilie continued. "The world could be coming to an end and she would just laugh and giggle and say 'Well how much time do we got left?' Poster Comment: Don't that beat all. Whatever happened to riding in a limo to the reception?
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#1. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
It's not COOL enough for some people.
Oh deer.
John Howard says: There are 4 schools of economics: How to End the Refugee Flood I guess she didn't have as much time left as she thought. :-/ "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Lesson learned: Don't marry a biker.
I have long believed -- and my wife agrees with me -- that women don't belong on motorcycles.
I wasn't going to say anything, but considering their record it seems to me the height of folly to get on one.* This affair calls to mind a few rather cruel Lady Die jokes :-) I played music for the funeral of a young man who died in a bite crash. Debated whether to throw it up to a relative to try to get him to quit. A couple years later he banged himself up rather badly -- drove off one day with the kickstand up, fell down a cliff! *All such trouble being caused by the cars and trucks on the road, natch >:-7
Over the years I've thought about getting a motorcycle. My conclusion every time was no way.
"In 2010, the federal government estimated that the number of deaths on motorcycles was about 30 times the number of deaths in cars, on a per miles traveled basis." From a motorcycle lawyer's website: motorcycleaccidentlawyerp...-car-accident-statistics/
I rode one twice at age 18. Second time almost killed me. Lifelong limp to show for it. And I was sitting still! On a dirt bike! At the bottom of a big hill next to a corn patch. Another rider rode down the hill and hit me at the bottom of it. "I thought you were going to move", he said.
My conclusion every time was no way. Amen, and same here. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
My conclusion every time was no way. Some neighbors not too far away both have motorcycles. One day close to dusk, the wife was riding with her teenage daughter on the back of the bike. A deer walked out of the woods and mama had to lay the bike down. Her daughter got hurt pretty bad in the crash. I'm told she turned into a really pretty girl. Maybe not so pretty any more. ;) "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#2. To: BTP Holdings (#0)
Marxism: steal everything
Keynesianism: steal by counterfeiting whenever needed
Chicago school (Milton Friedman): steal by counterfeiting at a steady, predictable rate
Austrians: don't steal
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#3. To: PnbC (#2)
"I've never met anyone like her," Khole Smilie continued. "The world could be coming to an end and she would just laugh and giggle and say 'Well how much time do we got left?'
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#9. To: Fred Mertz (#7)
Over the years I've thought about getting a motorcycle.
#10. To: Fred Mertz (#7)
Over the years I've thought about getting a motorcycle.
#11. To: Fred Mertz (#7)
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Over the years I've thought about getting a motorcycle.
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