This was on the AOPA website this morning.

LIGHT SPORT AIRPLANE CRASH AMONG FIRST FOR NEW CATEGORY
Investigators are trying to find out what went wrong when an Allegro 2000
light sport airplane crashed in a North Carolina cow pasture Sunday,
killing the two people on board. The owner, Robert Swanson, 62, was a
helicopter pilot in Vietnam and had some 40 years of flight experience,
according to "The (Raleigh) News & Observer." John Nesbit, 51, was a
former TV anchor in Greensboro who had always wanted to learn to fly.
The airplane is produced by the Czech Republic firm Fantasy Air in
either kit or ready-to-fly form. Some 450 are flying in Europe. The
accident was among the first to involve a certified light sport airplane.

There's gonna be plenty more of these. Make special note of the pilot's experience level - this can happen to anybody given the wrong set of circumstances, but it's still safer than drivin' to work.