My Next Door Neighbour Did What?

[Mat]

Mate, if I had taken the olds EA falcon before I had a license, I'd have got a solid ass whooping. I remember the 6 months after I got my license that mum came with me every time I drove anywhere. Even took my mates to the movies one night and yep, you guessed it... She did pay for us (big deal when your young!) and go to a different movie mind you. Then I got a modded wrx and funnily enough she wasnt so keen.

I'd bet money that the reason the cars stayed in place while the parents where on holidays is down to hidden keys or the olds packing them.

Did anyone see the girl on ACA tonight in regard to the blue XR that binned it recently with 6 people in the car? Running red lights, doing serious speeds etc. Proof that even with the best driver training, you cant stop idiots.

She said the boys in the back were horrified yet didnt say anything before they lost control...

Edited 10/02/10 01:56 PM by Mat

[mattyb]

I'm with mat here, I did some f*cked up sh*t when I was younger, jumped off bridges, blah blah blah... but f*ck me dead my old man would have hog tied me naked to the bull bar of his work car and driven around for a week if I even touched the car keys with out legal documentation stating I could do so

[John_K]

UPDATE IS THAT HE MAY HAVE TO HAVE HIS LEGS AMPUTATED - SORRY FOR CAPS.

Sydney car crash: Mohamed Afchal death

Fatal impulse: 'he's never taken the car before'

GEORGINA ROBINSON

February 11, 2010 - 12:36PM

Rana Zreika yesterday made the house call no mother should ever have to make.

She visited the mother of Mohamed Afchal, her teenage son's best friend, to say she was sorry the 15-year-old was killed in a car crash while her own son, Abdul, was at the wheel.

Mrs Zreika told Mohamed's mother she was praying for the boy.

Mrs Afchal said the same of Abdul, also 15, who is fighting for his life in hospital.

"There's no animosity; there's nothing," Mrs Zreika said.

"Those kids were like brothers; they loved each other. [Mohamed] was at our house all the time; he's like a son to me.

"It's like I've lost a son; they said the same thing."

Mrs Zreika said she does not know why Abdul and Mohamed, both too young even to hold a learner's permit, took the car keys from the kitchen bench and jumped in her 10-year-old white Expensive Daewoo Late model camira on Tuesday. They had returned moments earlier from a walk to the local high school to pick up Abdul's younger sister.

"In a split decision - he's never taken the car before - he's made a rushed judgment and taken the car without my knowledge," she said.

"We want the lesson to be learnt so that the kids don't take their parents' cars.

"My son is an example of what acting a little bit foolishly can do ... it's another boy's life."

Police said the car failed to negotiate a bend in Gurney Road, Chester Hill, and mounted the kerb before smashing into a power pole.

Mohamed died instantly. Abdul was stuck in the mangled wreck.

He underwent numerous operations at Liverpool Hospital but Mrs Zreika said her son still had a long way to go.

"We're just praying [for Abdul] and we're praying for the other family," she said.

The tragedy followed a string of serious incidents involving young drivers on NSW roads.

A 17-year-old was killed and her three teenage passengers were seriously hurt when their car slammed into a tree on the South Coast last month.

Two P-platers were charged for speed and drink-driving offences at Casula and on the Central Coast over the weekend.

A 15-year-old girl was charged today with stealing a car then crashing it at Dapto. Police alleged she was drunk when she got behind the wheel.

And an 18-year-old P-plater was caught doing 80km/h through a school zone in Vaucluse yesterday.

[ZAP]

I am not proud to say I drove extensively when I was 14-16 without a license.

I even rode a postie bike to school everyday. This was in Mosman, Sydney.

I also admit I did many many many stupid things while behind the wheel, but not while unlicensed.

There was always the worry that I would be caught. I was pulled over twice by the police, but I had my brothers paper P's and knew his details.

Both times I was pulled over, it was for RBT.

Looking back I realise how lucky I was, but also how careful I was. Only after I got my license did I have my first Crash, but in 24 years of driving I have NEVER had an at fault accident, including on the racetrack.

I guess it comes down to attitude and luck. Cars are more powerful, handle and brake better, so if you loose it, usually it will not end up pretty. It is easy for us to pass judgment and give advice, but at the end of the day, these kids are dieing on the roads....they always have and always will.

[NYT-SKY]

Lifes Natural Selection. That is all.

[Adam]

I'm guessing they were speeding if hitting a pole in a surburban area would be a bad enough crash to kill one of them...

Doesn't sound like they were doing 60 to me.

[Rhino1980]

Never good when young people die. But I gotta say, they sound like the perfect reason that some people shouldn't breed. They always say "he was such a good boy". In my years of dealing with this sort of sh*t I only came across ONE set of parents that conceded that their son was a time bomb and it was bound to happen.

[Venom XR6]

Balil Skaf was also a good boy according to his mother, and all the girls he and his friends gang raped were liars.

[John_K]

Funny you should bring up Bilal Skaf.

He was another one I knew & went to the same school as... bwahahaha!!!

[arjey]

Next thing we know - John_K is done over in the black market for selling hott parts for XR6 Turbos