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Relic's Brian Wood Tragically Killed in a Car Accident

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 01:10pm 09/09/10 | 12 Comments

Company of Heroes Senior Designer, Brian Wood, was tragically killed in a collision last week, according to an update on Relic's website.

We are all deeply saddened by the loss of Brian Wood who was killed in a tragic traffic accident last Friday. Both Brian and his wife Erin were struck by a car on Whidbey Island in Washington State. Erin, who is six-months pregnant, survived the crash and has since been released from the hospital to be with her family. Brian was the Senior Designer on the Company of Heroes franchise and a key member of the Relic family. Everyone here has a tremendous amount of respect for Brian and he will be greatly missed.

Our thoughts and prayers go out to Brian's family during this difficult time.

Very sad news indeed. AusGamers would like to pay our respects to the Wood family; his contributions to the world of RTS gaming and the industry in general will be long remembered.

Tags: company of heroes / relic / brian wood / car accident

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trog
Posted 01:12pm 09/9/10

thanks for all the good times
CoH is one of the probably 3-4 games that I have bothered really playing through in the last several years

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d^
Posted 01:14pm 09/9/10

R.I.P - That's sad news, and yes Company of Heroes is a brilliant game which is highly under the radar.

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Eorl
Posted 01:58pm 09/9/10

RIP Brian Wood. I came late to the CoH series, but have since enjoyed my time playing as much as possible. Brilliant games, and sad to see a prosperous person go away to early in life.

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Mordecai
Posted 05:35pm 09/9/10

Another article about this:

http://www.theprovince.com/news/North+final+saves+family/3487150/story.html

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.

A good man died because some drugged up fuckers decide to go joy riding.

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kirkoswald
Posted 06:51pm 09/9/10

RIP mr Wood

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infi
Posted 07:26pm 09/9/10

COH ftw bl buddy you did good work

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Basket
Posted 09:35pm 09/9/10

YOU DID AMAZING WORK :(

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trog
Posted 09:40pm 09/9/10

Another article about this: http://www.theprovince.com/news/North+final+saves+family/3487150/story.htmlA good man died because some drugged up fuckers decide to go joy riding.

wow I didn't know that. That is even more depressing. People that get under the influence of anything and get in a car make me wish we still had corporal punishment even when they don't kill anyone

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Plasma
Posted 10:38pm 09/9/10

Reading that article "It is not uncommon for those found guilty of vehicular homicide to get less than two years in jail in the U.S." pisses me off. Send these idiots away for 5/10 years at least, jesus.

RIP to Brian, he sounded like a nice bloke :(

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ROCK
Posted 07:32am 18/9/10

That'd be capital punishment there trog, corporal punishment is getting the strap or cane.

RIP Brian Wood, you will be sadly missed. My sympathies to his family for the loss of no doubt a loving husband and father to be.

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