This is Heartbreaking

BMWZ4MC said:
Reading the link, they were extremely lucky not to hit anything off road (save for the storm drain), to be found, and to be relatively spared serious injury.
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All very true - ffortunate indeed to have such a long flat run-off area next to the road, because if that, frankly massive, storm drain had been 50m closer to the road then they would have hit it going much, much faster and the result would have been very different.

Scary - I like to go find a place to max out my cars at some point in early ownership, just to know I have done it... Not sure I want to now :cry:
 
My wife received a call from the hospital between 2:30am and 3:00am to inform her that I was in the hospital and that she needed to get there as soon as she could without putting her own health in jeopardy.
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I once had that call when my brother was in an accident, I drove my mother to the hospital, a 30 min journey to the hospital in very busy traffic felt like the longest journey in my life, from the telephone conversation with the policeman i was not expecting to find my brother alive, fortunately he did survive, it took many months before he could walk and even longer before he recovered in his head - well i think he never was a full shilling hehe
 
teamemmenracing said:
wonder how the insurance claim went ....????
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Well it must have worked out in one shape or the other, because if you read down a little he explains hes bought a 335.

Its just the responsibility, drinking and driving is such a huge hate of mine that if it was involved licences should be removed completely not for 6 months or a year but forever. But not only that having someone else in the car and being responsible for their lives. As a passenger you have no control over anything really apart from getting in a car with the driver, but that person nearly died. If they had it would have been a different story. Not saying drink was involved because it was neither denied or proven on that forum post, but those are my feelings toward it.

They were lucky, lucky not only the car is built well but it happened where it did with the run off. A lot of people have died going much slower.

In terms of driving dangerously, people shouldn't anyway your not only responsible for your own safety but for other road users too and then again you have to worry about how bad their driving is! Definitely not when you have a passenger in the car, rule no.1 in my book.

Obviously you buy the car to for the added feeling and power, but with power comes responsibility. I only drive spiritedly when I no the road like the back of my hand, it is quiet and im on my own with no risk to anyone, or take it to the track. Its just common sense.

I know someone who killed a boy who was doing his paper round, it was 5 in the morning in November, pitch black, the kid had no lights on the bike and was on the wrong side of the road on a blind corner, he wasn't speeding but on his way to work and there was nothing he could do, but he was in a sports car and that was enough for it to make the newspapers. It was proven it wasn't his fault but that would never ever leave you having that on your conscience. I would hate to think how something like that would effect someone mentally and the boys family and the repercussions. Not worth thinking about.
 
As for the question of whether or not alcohol was involved, the accident report does not list alcohol as a contributing factor and the police department did not request a BAC test at the hospital. One of the things that the passenger was pressured to pursue was charges of intoxication assault. The passenger refused to do so.
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Or he should have just said --"As for the question of whether or not alcohol was involved",.... "No it wasn't"
So I believe I know what that carefully crafted answer meant......in fact in a later post he answers the question further:
The way I am reading you neither confirm, nor deny you were drinking.
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You are correct. I will not confirm or deny anything until I know for sure that no legal action can be taken against me. Take from that what you will.
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Party, drink, 140mph and a passenger....even without a passenger, it could have been someone innocently coming the other way.
I am pleased only that the passenger was OK.
I notice he says passenger had to have "the scalp....." and "the arm....." not his scalp and his arm. Obviously "the wife" wouldn't have been pleased about "the passenger" then.

Yes we all do stupid things, but drinking and driving ain't one of mine,
What a absolute c*ck, :headbang:
 
gookah said:
I notice he says passenger had to have "the scalp....." and "the arm....." not his scalp and his arm. Obviously "the wife" wouldn't have been pleased about "the passenger" then.
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In terms of trying to impress "the passenger", that surely rates as an epic fail.
 
a fail of epic proportions... pretty sure the passenger will still have medical problems in the years to come.
 
Have no sympathy for him as sounds like DD, just those around who had to pick up the pieces.

As for the passenger, unfortunate but see it as partly their fault if they got in car with someone who hadn't been on soft drinks, started to drive recklessly - we all have a choice.

Just lucky he didn't kill anyone else
 
This is very sobbering and I agree with all on here.

We've all taken risks when younger and got beeped: told off: had an accident. I like to think that we learn from our mistakes and increase the level of performance of our cars with experience. Cool heads and common sense must prevail.

I learned mine rolling x3 a Golf 5 driving at 60.

Its so true though a couple of light drinks over an evening, driving a passenger back, wanting to impress... but you've got to a complete and utter nutter and irresponsible to do 140mph on that road coming into a corner.
 
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