But over the years I think back on how easily it could have turned out so different. If life is a game, it's a game of inches. Fabio was traveling 70 mph when he got hit in the face by an object that probably weighed 30-35 pounds. I'm no physicist, but if that bird had hit him at a different angle, I've got to think it could have done serious damage. Maybe even killed him. And that coaster car rolling back into the station would have been more gruesome than anything I want to imagine.