The 5th Quarter 2010 In February, 2006, young Luke Abbate accepted a ride home from a fellow student following his high school team practice In a severe case of irresponsible and reckless teen age driving, and over the objections of Luke and the other young passengers, the driver lost control of the car at nearly 90 miles per hour, spinning off a narrow road and landing in an embankment some seventy feet below Luke suffered irreparable brain damage, and died in the hospital two days later just four days before his sixteenth birthday