Phaethon

Phaeton is The son of the sun-god Helios. When Phaeton ("the shining one") finally found out who his father was, he went east to meet him. He convinced his father to let him drive the chariot of the sun across the heavens for one day. The horses, feeling their reins held by a weaker hand, ran wildly off their path and came close to the earth, threatening to burn it. Zeus saw the danger and with a thunderbolt he destroyed Phaeton. He fell down into the legendary river Eridanus.   He was later found by the river nymphs who mourned him and buried him. The tears of these nymphs turned into amber. For the Ethiopians however it was already too late: they were scorched by the heat and their skins had turned black.