riends of Shin Gil Hong, a National Honor Society student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, are using cyberspace to come to grips with death of a 17-year-old who was killed in a car crash.

Hong was driving a Mercedes Benz on Memorial Drive on Dec. 28, 2005. Hong was not wearing a seat belt. His passenger and friend, 19-year-old Richard Le, who was wearing a seat belt, wasn't hurt in the wreck.

Le, who graduated from CRLS in 2004, keeps a Web log, and recent entries are remembrances of Hong. Hundreds of other friends have written in to the blog with condolences.

Le titled this Dec. 29 entry "Night of Horror and Pain Forever Engraved in the Minds of Friends and Family:" "together we drove late last nigth at 4:00am in the morning...then in a flash ... boom, sparks of fire ... why didn't you wear ur seatbelt?? WHY?!?! if you were wearing ur seatbelt, you'd be just like me right now, you'd be here with just a few scratches. but no, you didn't ... You kno how it felt tellin ur mom that u were gone?...it was painful... it was even more painful seeing you die in front of me ... my closest homeboi.."

According to State Police, the driver was speeding down Memorial Drive in a black Mercedes Benz when he was spotted by a trooper. The trooper followed, but by the time he caught up with the car, it had crashed into the right guardrail near the Longfellow Bridge, veered across the road and crashed into the left guardrail.

Sergeant Scott Range said last week that medical examinations were not yet completed and gave no factor other than speed in the cause of the accident.

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