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[EliteGren]

http://kotaku.com/5630790/company-of-heroes-developer-killed-in-car-accident

Brian R. Wood, lead designer of Company of Heroes Online and a key player in the development of the series as a whole, was tragically killed on Friday night in an automobile accident north of Seattle.

My condolences to Brian's Family, and pray that his wife and baby make a full recovery. This has quite a blow to the studio, the franchise, and the community. He will be surely missed.

[Mysthalin]

Owch, condolences to the family.

[Grundwaffe]

No way, it's so wierd seeing him on thoose COH ONLINE videos and thinking his dead now..

[acker]

http://www.theprovince.com/news/final+only+thing+that+would+save/3487150/story.html#ixzz0ynSeLsNa

The first thing Erin Wood wants her baby to know is that Dad, Brian, died to save their lives.

“. . . In his final act he did the only thing that would save us,” said Wood, 31.

With an out-of-control Chevy Blazer bearing down on him, the 33-year old North Vancouver man braked and swerved his Subaru wagon so that he would take the force of the head-on collision, saving his wife of five years, pregnant with their first baby.

“All the policeman say that if we had hit the car head-on all of us would be dead. At the very last second (Brian) braked really hard and turned right so that he would be put in the path of the SUV and not me and the baby, and that is the only thing that saved us both."

It's been posted elsewhere, but it bears mention here as well. What a guy...

[Unkn0wn]

My condolences. The COH Community loses another great member. 

[Smokaz]

Damn, he microed to the very end. Cred!

[MittinsKittens]

^+1
The world needs more people like him. He sounded like a great and caring man.
*takes off tophat* Rest In Peace. :<

[Nimitz]

Yea he really was a most caring man, being lead dev of CoH ONLINE.

[TheIcelandicManiac]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRu-y_yRONo

my condolences

[MittinsKittens]

Yea he really was a most caring man, being lead dev of CoH ONLINE.

Whats that got to do with anything, He was paid to do his job, and that job given to him by THQ was to make CoH Online

[Mysthalin]

Yea he really was a most caring man, being lead dev of CoH ONLINE.

Once you sacrifice your own life to save a pregnant woman, you can make crude and vulgar referrences like that.
Until then, show a little respect.

[Unkn0wn]

Once you sacrifice your own life to save a pregnant woman, you can make crude and vulgar referrences like that...

...IN HELL


muahahaha

[TheIcelandicManiac]

...IN HELL


muahahaha

niceone

[Tymathee]

dang, i shed a tear reading that, thats deep man sacrificing your own life like that.

[Killer344]

dang, i shed a tear reading that, thats deep man sacrificing your own life like that.

It was a simple choice... his life or his entire family's life.

[Smokaz]

I think most people would make the same decision if they had no amount of time to consider options, its deep down in the genes, preservation of offspring 4 life, in this case 4 death.

[Malevolence]

Dead people be dead. Tragedy as always.

[nugnugx]

I guess you could say that his wife..

..Was within the company of a hero.

[Unkn0wn]

I think most people would make the same decision if they had no amount of time to consider options, its deep down in the genes, preservation of offspring 4 life, in this case 4 death.

To be honest, your automatic reflex would normally be to turn the car (and yourself) away from the incoming vehicle.
What he did, turning himself into the danger zone, is quite an extraordinary act.

[Mister Schmidt]

You people making jokes should be ashamed of yourselves. It's disgusting.