I remember hearing a story about some guy who was rear-ended at a stoplight while digging for nasal gold.

Apparently he was wearing only a lap belt, and the angle of his elbow relative to the steering wheel was just right.

End result?

The poor bastard died instantly. The collision threw his torso forward into the steering wheel, in turn forcing his fist into his sinuses. This drove the sinusoidal bones at the base of the nose inward, crushing the basal ganglia and severing the base of the spinal cord.

Medics responding to the accident found the poor sod hunched over the wheel dead, with half his fist up his nose.

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Granted this is essentially urban legend, but what a horrible way to check out...:ugh: