Popular high school track and football coach Marion Adams was riding his bicycle home from school in California when a parking lot gate suddenly impaled him on Monday night.

He died on Tuesday morning after undergoing two surgeries to treat internal wounds, according to Fox News. A candlelight vigil took place for Adams on Tuesday night.

His son, Joe Adams, said to CBS Sacremento, "It's like a nightmare. I keep waiting to wake up, just hasn't hit me all the way."

Marion, 59, had turned to wave at a student while leaving Rio Linda High School in Sacramento County when he rode into the partially open parking lot gate as it impaled several inches into his stomach.

Nearby students came to his side, making sure he stayed awake until emergency services arrived. One student, track runner Marcel Brown, saw him right after the accident occurred.

"He looked like he was going to be OK. He was nodding his head yes and no. I was thinking he was going to be alright," Brown said.

Marion was also a multimedia teacher and coached both youth football and Little League for decades in Rio Linda. The decdicated sports fan, who loved the San Francisco 49ers, was said to have used his own money to help kids buy sporting equipment. He is survived by his wife Kathy, son Joe and daughter Sarah.

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