[sml156]

From the article

>The owner, he said, backed out of the driveway, and then may have hopped in the back seat only to crash a few hundred yards down the road. He said the owner was found in the back seat upright.

My first thought was they were making a YouTube video

[jasonwatkinspdx]

Yup, that or just showing off a sort of autopilot variation of ghost ride the whip to his buddy. Really sad and dumb reason to die.