How Could This Happen!

[Ausric]

On the 19th of may at around 4 AM a good friend jumped in his car to get maccas at delahey.

mearly driving 100m from where he was parked hit a concrete pole.

Ended up with a shattered skull and broken ribs. His face was impossible to recognise.

Today the 21st of may at 3:25 PM at the royal melbourne hospital his life support had been turned off and he passed away peacefully.

http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/man-critical-after-horror-crash/xjhg4h8

The reason i'm making this post is to let everyone know that YOU ARE NOT INVINCIBLE!

the total distance travelled from parked to DEATH was 100m!!!!!

I've had my car off the road for almost 2 years, which is highly modified.

My friends car was 100% standard.

I seriously and honestly hope that some of you can take some sense from this and think twice everytime you turn that key....

I've had to deal with too much death in the last 2 months...

Last one was James from OH performance for whom i worked with for almost 5 years.

[xALmoN]

how did it happen?

[Do-Luck]

A terrible accident happened on the kings way off ramp today too.

[ARTZ]

400+ new cops on the beat and 100s of new speed cameras installed recently and the road toll is up 14 on last years figures already.

Is it possible that their system isnt working

[xALmoN]

400+ new cops on the beat and 100s of new speed cameras installed recently and the road toll is up 14 on last years figures already.

Is it possible that their system isnt working

how can it be!

[Ausric]

how did it happen?

Him and another friend jumped in the car going to get maccas. he was parked on the nature strip.

He just took off and went straight into the pole. There's no tyre marks there to see if he slid the car or not.

I believe he floored it and seeing as how it was a wet cold morning his car kicked out and he paniced and let off forcing the car to fling the other way into the pole.

I've buried a few friends in the past but this one shook me to the core. Makes you think that the next corner could be your last.

plus what he normally would do was out of normal routine.

His mom the day before asked him to finally get his car started as it was sitting in the driveway for over a month

He'd normally walk to the friends house he was at

He'd normally walk to maccas

He never drove as a bunch of us live within 10 minute walk of each other.

was only 22 years old...

But he drove that day

Edited May 22, 2011 by Ausric

[blk94r33]

400+ new cops on the beat and 100s of new speed cameras installed recently and the road toll is up 14 on last years figures already.

Is it possible that their system isnt working

The road toll has risen more each year as do the new laws and shi* that gets made illegal...... Cruel irony?

[nicrowkz]

Sorry for your loss it's scary how quick something like this can happen.

Who are you btw? One of my boyfriends old friends used to work at OH...

[LNah]

Sorry to hear about this.

Just as the Chinese saying goes, " The roads are like a tiger's mouth." We'll always be vulnerable to something on the streets at anytime, our fault or not.

[Birds]

My condolences to you OP...

It's almost always the road less travelled (excuse the pun) that produces this kind of thing. All car accidents I've been involved in (and I've been in so many I don't even flinch when the car I'm in is struck), I have been somewhere or heading somewhere I didn't need to...or I took a different path to get there.

I think the reason this happens is because we develop bad habits as drivers (obviously), but these bad habits don't affect us with our day to day driving because we take for granted how much of our driving is actually done by autonomous body movements. We don't drive like we did on our L plates, worrying about every little thing. You can SMS the whole trip to work (a lot of people do) and you'll probably be fine...your body knows every lane change, every bump in the road, every intersection. Throw in some unfamiliar terrain and it's a different story...but you'll drive it in the same manner as your daily trip.

Also sorry to say that any words about driving safely will fall on deaf ears, or will be quickly forgotten (by me too). It's all been said before, for many years. This is just something people need to either grow out of over time, or experience for themselves and hopefully survive the experience. Even personal experience is limited to the amount of lesson you want to take from it...hell, in the accident that should have killed me, the driver went out the next day looking for a faster car to replace the one he had just rolled down a ravine onto it's roof. This is what we're dealing with here.

[GTR-N1]

My condolences to you and his friends.

If you're up to it, you can look up...

http://bushchurchaid...category/books/

...and ask them to send you the "Good Grief/Bad Time" book that I authored.

Ask them to send you one free on my behalf.

[Grey]

The government just wants money by making more cameras and restricting people from driving certain vehicles.

[Cre8toR]

My deepest condolences brother, I feel for you and 22 is far to young.

- Maybe we should make a sticky thread on this very subject? Make something good from these types of accidents, Readers may think twice the next time they boot it. Little bit of shock treatment.. Almost everyone on this site drives high performance cars weather it be stock or modified or highly modified, regardless they are all pretty powerful it can go from harmless fun to dead in a matter of 5 seconds or 100m..

My 2cents

[some_cs_student]

Condolences to the op, sorry to hear about this

In regard to the above post, shock advertising rarely works, encouraging more people to learn the limits of there vehicles in a safe environment may help.

[Grey]

After watching that video, I'm truly amazed and shocked how bad that turned out. I mean we P-Platers all floor our skylines every now and then but I never knew it could be as bad as this, one moment enjoying the adrenalin and 5 seconds later saying "help me...help me..." to a stranger off the streets. Just imagine what it would be like if you were in that situation, it's terribly scary. Sorry for your loss ausric.

[Birds]

Very kind Terry!

After watching that video, I'm truly amazed and shocked how bad that turned out. I mean we P-Platers all floor our skylines every now and then but I never knew it could be as bad as this, one moment enjoying the adrenalin and 5 seconds later saying "help me...help me..." to a stranger off the streets. Just imagine what it would be like if you were in that situation, it's terribly scary. Sorry for your loss ausric.

And that's exactly what happens.

It goes like this:

hahahaha that was awesome

SHIT SHIT FUCK SHIT

And that's if you're conscious throughout the experience. Life can be over in the blink of an eye, no goodbyes to your loved ones; no spending the money you've saved up; no life flashing before your eyes...that's just a load of Hollywood fairytale crap. Just a bunch of swear words and you're done.

[gdogzgtr]

Condolances to the OP. I don't think many people think before getting behind the wheel.

I just came off a week of N/S where it rained almost every night and we caught 5 Drink drivers for the week, including one that drove 15 minutes down wrong side of freeway and had taken prescription meds. I Caught a Learner driver with no full lic driver, one person doing 40+ over speed limit and about 20 more fines for speed 20+ over, Unregistered car etc

It simply shows the total lack of respect for the safety of the public that most people have, no amount of police or cameras will change that.

[alr33x]

do they ever take into accout more people coming to aus each year more drivers on the road hence the road toll will never be halved by 2020 or whatever crap they want to spin.

Also sick of all these crack downs in teh metro/cbd majority of the fatalities are country roads last i heard..

[Ausric]

just comes to show you that even a simple rev and dump showing off to mates can end badly,

Even though that is not the case here.

Kinda contemplating getting back into my car which i've been trying to get back on road for last 2 years....nearly there...

[AnDyStYLe]

I heard on the news that alcohol was possibly involved... Is this true?

Cheers,

Andy