Going for a blast? Read this first.........
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Seen this link elsewhere, sobering reading. I'm not trying to preach, plenty of people on this forum have been in road cars with me and will know that at times I don't hang about. But this really does make you think.
Be careful guys.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.a...1&t=442266&i=40

it made me think a lot! scary stuff. don't know what I'd do if I couldn't be close to Lilly every night

Team Racing

Thats very sobering

Made me think, although I generally am very calm in public traffic. Luckily none of my friends have ever been either side of such an accident.

as prev. a sobering read.

Pistonheads is a cracking site.... Know what you mean Jim, bad enough being away from the wife when away with work.

Edit:- Impressed with the chaps outlook on it all too.

Edited by Monster22 on 26th Oct, 2007.

A fantastic post that. IMHO should be put on many forums and club boards for us folk, every turn of that ignition key begins a journey of many choices and potential endings all of which most of the time are controlled by you the driver who will be accountable. Having dealt with some horrific incidents it does not take long to realise that we drivers are nothing more than potential killers, and as such i drive very very carefully. it is harder for the general "Joe" who lives in his / her own sphere and does not realise the dangers until they are in the middle of it.

take care out there folk save the high boost for the tracks and as they say up north "Gan Canny"

Richie

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If you looked at the picture of his car....imagine the state of a mini in such an impact....

I'm still impressed with the chaps openess.

Mark

It does make you think.
Done some stupid things on the road, but old enough & lucky to learn from it before something serious happened.
Admire the bloke...must of been hard for him.

just my thoughts

if he'd had the same sort of crash but not hit/killed someone the police wouldnt get too involved or give 3 or 4points and maybe a £400 fine. instead someone was unlucky to be in the wrong place at the wrong time so he got sent down. the speed, direction and manor of driving was the same but the punishment different due to the death. shouldnt the punishments be more similar?

e.g. you can own a shot gun but accidentally set it off in the bank and you expect to go to prison. if your driving like a cock does it matter if you kill someone or not?

perhaps if when we get done for minor driving offences we should get a very short ban (say ranging from 1wk to a months) to remind us driving is a privilage and not a right.

* by the way i'm not claiming to be a saint

Thats the British Justice for you. But the bloke was at the wrong place at the wrong time as you say, and it wasn't a malice crime. I'm sure his conscience is punishment enough, as well as the prison sentence.

Was a very sobering read. I was quite interested in what he had to say about it all so read on deeper into the thread.

Theres a link to a local paper where the accident happened and it turns out he had organised a meet with a load of other honda drivers, his being an integra. Hed organised it on a honda site and had mentioned the road where it happened being a good drive etc.

It seems he could quite easily be labbled a "boy racer" for doing this, and I read that hed previously overtaken 4 cars just before the corner he lost it on, which sounds like he was driving like a complete tool! Shame theres so many people like that about who treat the road as their personal track, it takes something like this to make people realise just how dangerous driving is, but as with the rider, just unlucky at the wrong place wrong time and got shafted due to someone else careless actions. Admire the driver for describing his experiences, hopefully hes learnt a lesson and has opened a few peoples eyes as to what could happen, i know its made me think!

I mentioned this thread to a housemate earlier, and he was saying he knows of a guy back home who was riding his motorbike, and someone came hooning out of a sideroad in a car. The rider swerved to miss the driver but ploughed straight onto a pavement instantly killing a toddler.

Apparently every year the motorbike rider gets birthday cards from the kids parents, but they read "this is our boys birthday, thanks for ruining our lives" which I think is terrible, especially as it wasnt the riders fault. Id hate to have that burden of killing someone unintentionally, let alone be reminded of it for the rest of your life. I bet the guy in the integra was just gratefull that he didnt kill the guy on the bike, i dont know how id live with that!

Its very grim. Theres no easy answer to it. We all say we've learnt, but unfortunatly we don't. People will still have their mad moments...some lucky, some are not.

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it is sad that people have to learn from such serious mistakes, i guess the fact that we are human makes us maybe forget about the consequences of our actions at times


i for one had a couple of accidents quite some time ago and as such have a different outlook when 'going for a blast'

not sure what else to say really but think first rather than regret later

i found out this weekend that an old mate of mine is looking at 15-20 years, he was at one of his mates 21st b-day party, drank too much, got in his unregistered car, sped down the street and ran over his mates uncle who had just left the party, killed him, shortly after my mate drove his car into a brick wall at 80km/h tryin to kill himself but amazingly didnt get badly hurt, he's 19yrs old and probably thought it'd never happen to him the same way a lot of us do, now his life is pritty much f*ck'd. Makes you think!

Chris

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Very absorbing/sobering read, he shoud write a book about his ordeal in prison, his writing style is fantastic!