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![]() 60km/h speed limit, vehicle said to be doing double that at moment of impact, wet road with sweeping bend, fully loaded Commo Wagon, 12 midnight, 2 Dead, 3 critical. Glad to see the Werribee incident barely 4 days ago served as a lesson to these other young highly skilled professional drivers ![]()
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customer: "My car seems to be changing colour and growing wings" Ford Service: "That's normal, they all do that after about 10,000km 2009 FG XR6, Ego Paint, Darkest possible tint, Sunroof, Black Vic number plates. No performance mods. Born To Be Mild ![]() |
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ANOTHER group of grieving parents and friends. :(
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At midnight it very easy to get carried away as there is bugger all traffic and the lights are usually green (least theyre green for me..) Sure, pick a faster line across a roadway but trying to impress ya mates by trying to break the road speed record anywhere other than a controlled environment is somthing for the Darwin Awards...especially in the wet...
Looks like those 3 were lucky to get out alive..
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Navy boys. I think I recall another Navy incident in 2007 killing 3 in an XR6 hire car over near Portarlington when they missed a bend a drove into the bay and drowned.
And yes, as said above, the deceased can be dismissed as idiots which they indeed were, or at least the driver was.. but it's the families left to go on after the tragedy that I feel for.
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Ironically, they have a smashed up VP Wagon permanently fixed near the naval base down there to remind those boys to take it easy. The navy seriously needs to do something about it's alcohol culture - although the same could be said about Australia in general.
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Do people not understand that when your mates hop in your car you are responsible for their lives. Look at the ***** tyres on that car, they are only "tyres" and nothing more, cheap crap to get your car through rego.
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Can't deny the fact it was a commodore. 2 in 1 week. I know they are popular, but still......
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My father is a towie down there, i rang him thismorning about it and lucky for him someone else went to it. I feel for the guys that have to clean up the mess and pull bodies out of the wrecks..
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Firstly
It doesnt matter how crap the tyres were IF they are deemed legal then they are IF the tyres are found illegal within the RWC period , then the RWC inspector has some explaining IF they are illegal after that point then its the drivers responsibility But was this the contributing factor to the crash ??? Secondly There are many factors ,speed, BAC,ect Has every avenue been excluded ??? Even IF the BAC was right,what about a drug test ??? Just because your in the forces,as such Doesnt exclude from being an idiot on the roads |
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Why, just...why.
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Although it may be shocking in a sad way its kinda true.... these idiots take their car on a road that all the locals know isnt in the best shape, they speed like morons and they stuff up and die..now why should we have pity for them?
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If people wanna have a read about it.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/de...330-1cfj8.html Had to induce one kid into a coma in the car.
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The driver knew the risks and the passengers couldve told him to slow down.. there is youthfull exuberance and then theres total stupidity... i think this falls into the later category.
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Sad to hear. There are now more families out there who tonight will not be sharing time with a loved one...very sad indeed.
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The simple fact of the matter is that people speed, the outcome of this speeding is that sometimes they stuff up, and when they stuff up, there are dire consequences for all involved. If we know that people speed, is it not an intelligent solution to give all drivers a course designed so that if they do stuff up...they know the basics on how to get out of it? My interpretation from that article is that the driver has actually tried, unsuccessfully to stop this from happening...I could be wrong, but the reality of it all is that until someone actually does something or makes a stand...there's going to be more of this type of accident.
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Well said Sezzy, but the problem is that a lot of these fools are going to drive like this even after going to a driver course. Yes we all speed at times, yes most of us have dropped a skid but most of us wouldnt do it with a car full of mates and do it to this extent.
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This accident reminds me a lot of that one. Some things never change. |
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Two actually 3 Helicopters too Very sad indeed...
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The small country town that I came from, this was common occurrence, some got out through sheer luck, the rest weren't so lucky. I found myself upside down in a car looking at the sparks from a battery and smelling petrol dripping from a cracked fuel tank after my boyfriend decided to take on a tree head first. He was a first class idiot and never learned from his mistakes. So whilst most people you know wouldn't do it with a car full of mates, I beg to differ.
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the police in the town i grew up in had a novel way of dealing with this sort of thing, if they found you being a knob they would give you a pounding for it.
I got a good beating from em and they told my dad what i was up to and that was the end of it. Nowdays it would be lawsuits all over it the police did it but i think it was for the best.
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Some that say the driver mite have been requested to slow down or perhaps change his drivin style
HHMM, How our memory fades fast How many of us seriously were young and stupid ??? Most I bet those who condone this attitude were not the great driver/passenger Themselves We have all acted the idiot behind the wheel in our life time Speeding,runnng a muck whatever Some get away with it,some get fines,jail time and some meet the maker When ya numbers up its up The road death toll has gone down ,thats all we need to worry about Going down means theres still deaths (wether good or bad) |
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What needs to happen, is for repeat offenders on the roads, need to be taken to the scene of a fatality, shown first hand what happen's. Then taken by the police to the home of the family they are about to inform of the death of a loved one from the accident and watch as the emotion's start flowing. Any survivors from the accident, they need to watch medical professionals try to save the lives of those critically injured in emergency theaters. Time to stop with the adds, they don't work, time to ram the reality down their throat and make them live what emergency personnel live with everyday. Cold hard reality. And they need to be made to be part of it. |
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I agree, the softly-softly approach doesn't work, but the extreme lefts would then really be asking you 'what about the children?' - the psychological impact of those kinds of visions is enough to send some people straight over the edge. So whilst I agree in principle it's a great idea, in practice, it's not so realistic. Most of us conveniently forget to remember that we were all young and impressionable once, we've all done stupid things, both in cars and out. Seeing this happen day in and day out on our roads is ridiculous, and yes, as has been said the road toll is going down, and yes, that's great - but kids are dying, and that's not great...
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