Speed Kills

[curious]

bad call from the salesman. He should have known that at eighteen and test drving an XR he was going to flog it. It would have been a wild horse getting away from him. I will never get used to attending those scenes.

We may all be wrong and the truck could have been at fault. However I have been in this game long enough and have a gut feeling what caused it.

Thier famlies must be shattered.

[Cypher]

It is times like these that make me think the P platers should not be allowed to drive fast and powerful. Heaps of power in inexperienced hands can only lead to one thing, especially when they are males.

An unfortuante waste of young lives.

[Marcos]

I think these accidents can happen in any vehicle, all cars have potentially enough power to break speed limits and loss of control. I can't help but think there will be a lawsuit against the salesman or the dealership in this case. Sad.

[aniken]

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Two killed in test-drive smash

November 18, 2003

TWO teenaged cousins died today when the car they were test driving and a truck collided head-on, West Australian police said.

An 18-year-old man and his 15-year-old passenger had travelled only 200 metres from a car yard in Rockingham, 50km south of Perth, when the driver lost control of the car while trying to negotiate a bend.

The Ford Falcon XR6, which was being test driven without a sales assistant, collided with the truck on Old Mandurah Road. The pair were killed instantly.

The truck driver escaped unhurt, but was in shock following the accident, a WA police spokesman said.

Excessive speed and the inexperience of the driver were two possible causes of the accident, the spokesman told AAP.

The driver had been interested in the car for some time, police said, and officers would be interviewing the owners of the car yard to find out how the teenager came to be test driving the vehicle.

Police have urged witnesses to the accident to come forward.

AAP

[Guest beaver1]

yes seen news report on tv it was an ef or el only could tell by the wheels what an tragic waste of two young lives.

[XtRmn8]

The car was a white ED XR6 auto, bog-stock no mods!! It has been sitting in the yard for quiet some time, as I had a look at it about 2 months ago! As soon as I saw the news I recognised the car and from the location of the crash I knew that it would have been that car and then they showed the yard and yep it was it!!

From the looks of it the crash was at the last corner on Day Road just before Old Mandurah Rd. Its a back street with a 700-800m straight before this corner, which you would be crazy to take at more then 40km/h!

RIP.

[voy74656]

scary...just scary!!! my room mate just lost his best friend to an accident in QLD when it collided with a truck. He just collapsed when his phone rang...I thought he was fainting.

[voy74656]

its never good to hear about these things...but its always a case of either inexperienced drivers or someone loosing concentration :(

[ducatijb]

Sad to hear,needless deaths like this really sadden me :hiwelcome:

R.I.P.

[Falchoon]

It was a bit of a media beat up, the news report was questioning why peple so young were driving such a "powerful" car. It doesn't take a powerful car to crash at a 40km/h corner. Good to see the media continuing their and factual reporting...