Commodores Strike Again

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

i agree with mad082 here, we don't really know what happened...

even if the cars were 10km over the limit the media is gonna say that they were involved in "illegal street racing"

why?

because it sells

[ssshonky]

crash investigators at this time must have an idea how fast the cars were going.

Dont forget - if there was a slight crest just before the intersection ,and the cars were going double the speed limit ( just for the sake of the argument ) then the 71 yo lady would have f00k all time to react !

I mean even if a cars doing 80 in a 60 zone it still gives you a little less time to get across the road etc.

[GTAAAH]

Old people forgot to look left and right methinks..

[infected flow]

i'd say there is every chance that the old lady was to blame and the commodores weren't racing. the police just assume that because both commodores were side by side that they were racing. how many times you you been driving through the city and had another car next to you?

and the driver of the third car has come foward.

this has got to be the stupidest thing ive read so far .....

noooooooooo the commodores werent racing and yet 2 people died..hahah sorry but if they werent racing do u think 2 people would of died i think not!..as already clearly stated speed was a factor look at the police site!..jeezz

maybe u should stop going down george street on a friday nite so u dont get the same type of car next to you...

im not going to bother if u reply it would be a waste of time to respond...

[NISMO]

i'd say there is every chance that the old lady was to blame and the commodores weren't racing. the police just assume that because both commodores were side by side that they were racing. how many times you you been driving through the city and had another car next to you?

and the driver of the third car has come foward.

definately a chance she could be a fault,

BUT the damage, and the fact the old guy was thrown from the car, don't really suggest that the commodore drivers were putting along at a leasuirely pace.

Sadly, there's no simple solution, cause morons will continue to do what morons do. You can provide driver education courses for free every day of the week, and put a track in every suburb, and you can bet your a$$ some d1ckhead will still go and drag someone on a public road.

[N1GTR]

Old people in a Camry, who wouldve guessed.

Idiots will always be idiots

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

Sadly, there's no simple solution, cause morons will continue to do what morons do. You can provide driver education courses for free every day of the week, and put a track in every suburb, and you can bet your a$ some d1ckhead will still go and drag someone on a public road.

+1

[mad082]

this has got to be the stupidest thing ive read so far .....

noooooooooo the commodores werent racing and yet 2 people died..hahah sorry but if they werent racing do u think 2 people would of died i think not!..as already clearly stated speed was a factor look at the police site!..jeezz

maybe u should stop going down george street on a friday nite so u dont get the same type of car next to you...

im not going to bother if u reply it would be a waste of time to respond...

well captain cumstain, i don't live in the city so i couldn't go down george street, but considering that there are a shitload of commodores out there i don't think it would be too hard to have 2 next to each other at the lights.

secondly, the damage isn't actually that bad. if they had been going much faster the cars would have disintergrated. i have seen a few cars that have been in high speed accidents and they looked a hell of a lot worse than that.

thirdly, old people are frail. they can get killed much easier than a younger person, especially when the car is hit from the side.

now i am not saying that they weren't speeding. i'm saying they may not have been racing. sure they may have been speeding, but does that mean they were racing?

but at the end of the day, if the old lady pulled out in front of them and they still hit that hard they must've been close to the intersection when she pulled out. even travelling at 100kmh it takes you 4 seconds to travel 100m (as opposed to about 6 seconds at 60kmh). and the impact point on the camry was only on the nose so she must've pulled out just as they were entering the intersection. so at a guess (not taking into account the ability to brake earlier) if we assume that they were going 100kmh, if they were only going 60kmh the old lady would've been hit in the rear quarter of her car by the silver commodore.

[burgO.]

any info on if the third driver shed light on the situation? would be interesting

[heslo]

That's aweful news! No need for stupid behaviour like that on the roads

[Trust33]

i heard that he came foward to help in their investigation.but the police dont believe that he was actually racing.

[LTHLRB]

that vy looks to be a repairable write off

[scathing]

that vy looks to be a repairable write off

I'd say the same thing about a Commodore fresh off the showroom floor....

[andz]

very sad news indeed

RIP

[GTS4WD]

qhat does this mean?

Scrap the ban on turbo's.. and change the ban to commies

[scathing]

Maybe it means that banning sports cars, whose tyres don't "explode when they brake", or banning multiple occupants in cars after hours, isn't the answer to stopping people from hitting other cars so hard it propels an occupant out of it and kills them instantly, leaving the other occupant who wasn't knocked clear of the vehicle to die a far slower death.

Edited July 31, 2007 by scathing

[Guilt-Toy]

the media hit one of the guys pretty hard... something along the lines of "a man dressed like a racing hero"

The guy got charged this morning so i heard on the radio and was refused bail.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

but did the commo have 21" rims worth 5 times the value of the car?

[gts-4 dreamer]

allot of emotional responces good stuff

if they were racing they were stupid

if the old lady pullexd out infront of people well hey accidents happen eh ? bs

most people are stupid

most people are even stupider on the road.

i dont drive to work becuase I will come close to an accident driving normally and calmly either on the way home or on hte way in due to someone's incompetence, impatience or anger. yes I live in sydney and I live an hour out of the city... hmm... see lots of people drive faster out west but driver dumber closer to the city... most twats trying to race you eastern / southern suburbs eh.

[vhs2]

i happened to drive past the accident on the way to the movies to penrith.

it was a nasty sight.