Created Wed 12th Nov 2008 10:55pm PST by 
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Will anyone else be killed by a coffin by the end of 2009?
Current forecast: 10% chance 
Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 10% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
A Brazilian woman was killed by her husband's coffin on the way to the cemetery to bury him, police said.
Marciana Silva Barcelos, 67, was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the coffin slammed into her neck during a traffic accident.
She died instantly.
(http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/husbands-coffin-kills-wife-on-way-to-cemetery/2008/11/13/1226318799751.html)
Marciana Silva Barcelos, 67, was in the front passenger seat of the hearse when the coffin slammed into her neck during a traffic accident.
She died instantly.
(http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/world/husbands-coffin-kills-wife-on-way-to-cemetery/2008/11/13/1226318799751.html)
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Created Wed 12th Nov 2008 10:55pm PST by oppugner
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