{"id":5,"date":"2010-02-08T11:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/toronto-maple-leaf-gm%e2%80%99s-son-killed-in-indiana-crash.html"},"modified":"2010-02-08T11:04:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T11:04:00","slug":"toronto-maple-leaf-gm%e2%80%99s-son-killed-in-indiana-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/toronto-maple-leaf-gm%e2%80%99s-son-killed-in-indiana-crash.html","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leaf GM\u2019s Son Killed in Indiana Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"The son of Brian Burke, general manager of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs, and another youth were both killed in a head-on crash with a truck in central Indiana Friday. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/sports\/Leafs+Burke+killed+accident\/2529702\/story.html\">http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/sports\/Leafs+Burke+killed+accident\/2529702\/story.html<\/a><br \/><br \/>Brendan Burke, 21, of Canton, Mass., and Mark Reedy died when the car Burke was driving skidded on ice and hit a truck on Highway 35 near Economy, Ind. The accident took place about 70 miles northeast of Indianapolis.  Reedy was an 18-year-old  Michigan State University freshman studying engineering.<br \/><br \/>A heavy snowfall made roads slippery and Burke\u2019s 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee hit a 1997 Ford truck head-on.<br \/><br \/>Burke attended Miami University in Ohio and had a job with the school\u2019s hockey team.<br \/><br \/>His death brings into question whether his father will go through with plans to attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver Feb. 12.<br \/><br \/>In a press release, the Maple Leafs said, \u201cWe are saddened to report that Brendan Burke, the youngest son of Toronto president and general manager Brian Burke, succumbed to injuries he suffered in an auto accident earlier today in Indiana. The family asks for privacy at this very difficult time.\u201d   <br \/><br \/>As we have said repeatedly on this blog, fully understanding what happened in this accident requires an inspection and investigation of the relative tread on the tires on Burke&#8217;s vehicle.  If the tires on the front were newer than those on the back, this might be what caused the skid.  For more information on potential liability of non-drivers in skidding accidents, see <a href=\"http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\">http:\/\/car-accident-rain.com<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The son of Brian Burke, general manager of the NHL Toronto Maple Leafs, and another youth were both killed in a head-on crash with a truck in central Indiana Friday. http:\/\/www.vancouversun.com\/sports\/Leafs+Burke+killed+accident\/2529702\/story.htmlBrendan Burke, 21, of Canton, Mass., and Mark Reedy died when the car Burke was driving skidded on ice and hit a truck on Highway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,8,10,19,190],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-burke-fatal-car-crash","tag-skidding","tag-snow-skidding-accidents","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-gm-son-killed-in-crash","tag-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/car-accident-rain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}