Child Prodigy Killed in Motorcycle Collision

Scott Smith

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Derek Jacobs, who at age 12, became certified by Microsoft to engineer systems for corporate computer networks died when he lost control of his motorcycle crashing into a guardrail and pole. Derek was the first national recipient of an identification chip implant that stores medical data. Derek was wearing a helmet at the time of the collison but was catapulted upon impact. Derek was scheduled to graduate after only two years from Florida International University and thereafter seek a career in medicine as a neurosurgeon.