It may not happen to you, but it does happen quite a lot....

AdelaideNow... Teen death car clipped kerb, airborne at 140km/h

Tony

 

it's a fair enough thing to write, but you could change the words in the opening paragraph to 'in the wrong hands, any car can be a deadly weapon. Any car driven by an inexperienced driver can be a death trap'

if you drive like a ***, it doesn't matter what you're driving.

tragic, but avoidable.

 

IMHO physical age doesn't play that much of a part in it...its all about mental maturity IMHO.....yes younger drivers tend to have less mental maturity but so do a lot of older drivers.

agree with the post above in the wrong hands any car but espeically high performance cars can be very dangerous and tragic as has been proven.

 

Tragic unfrotunately.

Notice the Wrx had lexus lights, (and speaking frome experience), round here the Scoobs with lexus lights mostly drive like *********. Just saying, but still an aviodable death...

 

serves the ****** right for driving like a c**t.If you are going to drive like a tw@t you deserve everything that comes to you

IMO

 

Nice edit... the zappers may be about, hense my watered down attack on lexus light fodder.

Just read it again, was the dude who died driving? Or was it someone else... it's a bit confusing.

 

"Tragic death ... Dimitri Ninos, 18, who died when the Subaru WRX sports sedan (main picture) in which he was a passenger slammed rear-first into a Stobie pole. "

 

URM the driver didn't die in that crash it was one of the passengers which is typical, the main culprit comes away with 'serious' injuries and the passenger dies

 

Damn too slow lol

 

Wait, wait, wait.....

 

If he had an ounce of common sense he would have never got in the car in the first place.They were all clearly trying to show off so i stand by my comments *serves them right*

 

the young lad that died was a passenger, and no one deserves to die, further more what is the big grin for?, a young man died in an accident ffs

 

You are not really that naive into thinking the passenger(s) wernt egging the moron driving are you
I'm sure the passengers werent forced to take part in this *joyride*

 

Poor statement considering the dead fella wasn't driving.

 

read up

 

a family has lost a son/brother/grandson/friend due to a tragic accident and all you can do is offer a big cheesy grin and say it was his own fault, get a grip of reality mate

 

Similar thing hapenned in Winchester several years ago. A lad took the keys to his father's TVR while his parents were on holiday. He took his g/friend out and overtook another car on a long uphill stretch, unfortunately when he pulled in he clipped the edge of the road causing the car to spin into the opposite lane and the path of an oncoming car. The driver of the oncoming car was killed. Both the lad and his g/friend were ok, though he was later jailed. It emerged that the g/friend had pleaded for him to slow down.
Nick

 

Until you have had someone close to you killed by one of these cretins i suggest you wind your neck in.IF THESE IDIOTS CLIMB INTO A CAR AND RAG AROUND LIKE FOOLS THEY DESERVE WHAT THEY GET END OF

Like it or not that is my opinion

 

I do tend to share your opinion on the above statement.

Care to digress your experience, can pm if you want.

 

Only the driver is to blame here. If he is weak enough to be "egged on" by passengers he shouldn't be driving.

When I give my mates a lift they're always wanting me to show them what it can do, and I can honestly say I've never once done that. Maybe drop down a gear on a clear straight, but that's as far as it goes.

 

Allbeit a poor one. I would agree with your original statement had it been the driver which was killed. If you can remember what is was like to be 18 and you ever had the chance to go out in your mates scooby you would understand. I believe they call it peer pressure.

 

the young lad has payed the highest price allready, and just for getting into the wrong car at the wrong time

if you have 1st hand experience of joyriders then I am truely sorry

 

Many of us made mistakes when we were 18/19, but I'm sure we did'nt deserve to die for any of them.

 

The reason the passenger comes off worst in most cases is because it is a natural reaction of the driver to steer away from an impact that will hit the driver first. I learnt this from a course i did. Its a shame but true. So that might be worth thinking about when driving like a ***.

 

Stobie pole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When you have these for street furniture, care is required.

 

I'm old as c.o.b. will confirm, but I never go over about 90 % of what my car/ability can manage with anyone else in my car. On my own is a different matter, I have been close to situations where a young driver has died as a result of "racing" and it is ALWAYS a tragic loss.

DunxC

 

Wouldn't say old mate, but that day when I saw you fart dust made me wonder.

 

All very good, but what about other people on the road, like my wife and kids sharing the road with you..

 

Youth, inexperience and a powerful car are a dangerous mix. The insurance companies don't charge the kids those sky-high premiums just for fun you know..

 

im sure this would of helped to avoid a fatality