Speed Kills

[Guest CANOPUS]

As Falchoon said in the previous post this has become a "media beat up"

The loss of life and the circumstances surrounding this accident are very tragic, however todays article in today's West Australian on this is crash by Luke Eliot is nothing but a "media beat up"

The article referred ED XR6 as "High Powered" on 7 occasions yet lets look at the facts:

ED Falcon XR6 - 161 KW @ 4600 (involved in the crash)

BA Falcon XT - 182 KW @ 5000 (standard cooking model Falcon)

VY Late model camira Exe - 152 KW @ 5200 (as above)

VR Magna Exe - 163 KW @ 5200 (ditto)

I certainly would not clasify any of these cars as "high powered"

Unfortunately in WA over recent months there has been a number of bad fatal accidents involving young drivers but MOSTLY (not allways) in "normal" powered vehicles.

If this "media beat up" continues we could see what happened in 1972 when the supercar scare occurred that resulted in the canning of what potentially could have become the greatest car in Australia - the XA GT Phase IV

Cars like our XR6T's could become endangered species!!!!!

Lets hope that commonsense prevails

[DavoWA]

I was wondering whether an opportunity was going to present itself about this incident.

Whilst any needless loss of life on the roads is tragic, when are the "do-gooders" and the media (I use the term very loosely) going to realise that

PEOPLE SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS!

You can put into place all the rules and regulations that you like, but unless you can remote control every vehicle on the road, an idiot is going to be an idiot and no-one will stop them.

In addition to that, as said on another thread, driver EDUCATION should be mandatory, particularly in later school years.

Off the soapbox now.

[DavoWA]

Forgot to agree with the "high-powered" comment.

"High-powered" - NOT!!

[Velvet Glove]

  Marcos said:

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.

If the person driving was licensed then a lawsuit against the dealer/salesman would not go anywhere, they've done nothing wrong and can't be held accountable for the actions of someone else. Always sad when someone dies on the road though

[AMoffat]

But, if the salesman was a thinking adult....

the mix isn't good.

18yr old with mate/cousin who is younger. Car they want to test drive - at that age it is test thrash.

Like all of you, I've been 18 too. We were lucky enough to survive, at 18 you don't think about being hurt or dying, just being Schumacher in front of an audience - even if the audience is in your head.

As others have said, the waste of it all.

[curious]

I remember once when I was a kid I took a ET turbo for a test drive, no look at licence, no exchange of address, no interest in purchase, I know before you all chastise me, it was not the smartest thing. I picked my mates up and took it for a "good run"

Lucky I was honest and took it back but this was another example where it can go pear shape real quick.

We all have had sintuations where you look back and go why am I still here and unfortunately for those kids it will never be the case. This is why we educate.