simmo Member 431 Member For: 21y 7m 3d Gender: Male Location: byron bay more underarm hair per square km Posted 04/10/04 07:36 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 07:36 AM (edited) :o on saturday nite about 20 kms south of byron bay on a back road,a 30 year old man hit atree in a 03 xr8 at very high speed.the xr8 snapped in half sending the front half down into a creek upside down.now if old mate wasnt dead when he hit the tree he certianly would have drowned. the back half ended up several metres away just a reminder that we should all slow down and keep safe.sorry bout the pic didnt have a scanner so I used a camera. Edited 04/10/04 07:46 AM by simmo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmo Member 431 Member For: 21y 7m 3d Gender: Male Location: byron bay more underarm hair per square km Posted 04/10/04 07:45 AM Author Share Posted 04/10/04 07:45 AM another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRBloke Donating Members 1,219 Member For: 21y 2m 17d Posted 04/10/04 07:57 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 07:57 AM sh*t that's not good.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FPVPSI Member 503 Member For: 21y 6m 27d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 04/10/04 07:58 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 07:58 AM Ohh my...that's horrible... :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geea Site protagonist Lifetime Members 4,320 Member For: 21y 4m Gender: Male Location: At the lights, waiting for you. Posted 04/10/04 08:00 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 08:00 AM Not a pretty sight. We can only speculate as to what might have happened. It could have been a normal guy out enjoying his car, when sh*t happened. I feel sad for him and his family and hope there was little pain or suffering. Geea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicksy still kicking around Member 1,789 Member For: 21y 5m 21d Gender: Male Location: Mackay Posted 04/10/04 08:16 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 08:16 AM damn that sucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusht Member 198 Member For: 20y 2m 11d Posted 04/10/04 08:20 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 08:20 AM Very nasty. A reminder of the forces/energy involved when things go wrong I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennAUII Former XT pilot Lifetime Members 4,791 Member For: 21y 1m 20d Gender: Male Location: The Womb Posted 04/10/04 08:24 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 08:24 AM Geez! that's horrible!It just goes to show whilst these cars may be quite safe, they are also potentially lethal :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turbo6man Lifetime Members 4,084 Member For: 21y 11m 2d Gender: Male Location: South Coast NSW Posted 04/10/04 08:43 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 08:43 AM Blooody power poles - should not be anywhere near our roads.OK, sure it's fairly obvious the guy was travelling too fast for the conditions as evidenced by the end result. But we don't know what lead up to it. Maybe a stray animal on the road he tried to avoid. Maybe even another vehicle. Bottom line he lost control and left the road. But he didn't have to die. If the road had been constructed in a safer manner with adequate shoulders and no damn power pole he might have had a chance to save his car and his life.RIP - Condolences to his family and friends.PS I see in today's news where the HWP are calling for unmarked and disguised patrol cars to be brought back into service. I wonder if one would have saved this guy's life if it had been patrolling that road? Would it have caused the guy to drive more slowly? I think not. On the other hand a marked highly visible patrol car may have done so ... food for thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBOSS Faster than any BTA,XTC,Autotech, Nizpro and Tunehouse car Member 3,918 Member For: 21y 2m 21d Location: D SHIRE! Posted 04/10/04 08:55 AM Share Posted 04/10/04 08:55 AM PS I see in today's news where the HWP are calling for unmarked and disguised patrol cars to be brought back into service. I wonder if one would have saved this guy's life if it had been patrolling that road? On the other hand a marked highly visible patrol car may have done so ... food for thought. I doubt it as the HWP car would have been hiding behind a tree on a straight piece of road on one of the express ways as they cant make as much money on country road's :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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