Author Topic: Lake Worth teens killed in car accident. (Read 1906 times)

Animal · « **Reply #15 on:** February 21, 2002, 01:33:53 PM »

Yeap Eagler, a few days ago I almost had a girl in an Eddie Bauer Explorer wack me right in the drivers side, she was probably doing 55, talking on the phone. She managed to brake around 5 meters from my car. At the speed she was going and size of her SUV, she would have shattered the fiberglass and probably killed me.

Yeager · « **Reply #16 on:** February 21, 2002, 01:38:56 PM »

Sad to hear this. Always sad to hear of tragedy.

Tragedy sucks. I dont like stuff that sucks......

Y

Curval · « **Reply #17 on:** February 21, 2002, 01:42:36 PM »

I don't envy you having to help deal with all that grief....horrible stuff.

My condolences to everyone there...and the parents in particular.

ispar · « **Reply #18 on:** February 21, 2002, 07:02:42 PM »

This hits me a bit close to home, because I'm about your age, and am soon to get my license myself. Speed kills. We are told this again and again and again, but it always seems to take a tragedy to drill this into us, for maybe six months. The someone will forget that the odds apply to them, and it happens again.

It shouldn't have to happen this way.

My condolences. My school (admittedly a small one) has never been struck by tragedy, and I hope fervently that it never is. Hopefully, people will learn, and this will never happen to you or your school again texace.

-ispar

gavor · « **Reply #19 on:** February 21, 2002, 07:13:49 PM »

Sorry to hear about it tex. I live in the hills here in adelaide and we have had several young ppl die. I've personally been on the scene at 2 fatalaties and one of them I was first on scene(moments after it happened). I've never lost a friend in a car accident(touch wood) but I know I used to a be a stupid driver, ive driven home drunk on several occasions. I have younger friends whom I hope learn a non-lethal lesson very soon. I know I did.

I had a mazda rx-7 series 4, which is moderately quick. I had it for 2 days before it was written off in a fairly bad accident. Neither myself nor my passenger were injured, and it wasnt my fault but I learned how quick these things happen. You really cant do much most of the time except get ready for the impact and hope you survive.

Now days I actually drive slower when I have a passenger, I could go on with my life if I wrote my car off but not if i killed or injured a passenger. Young people need to remember this, cars are a privilege not a right and they're not as easy to handle as they look.

Again, condolences texace.

SirLoin · « **Reply #20 on:** February 21, 2002, 09:25:35 PM »

I remember when I got my license and my first vehicle(a Yamaha DT200R)...Not long after, I met a buddy at bar and got stinkin drunk...For some reason me felt compelled to ride home and my bud wanted on back.I gave him my helmet(Moto 4) and started the 5 minute trek home...I pulled up to the second last stop sign and promptly fell over,both of us having a good laugh..I picked up bike,kicked it over and was about to put it in gear when I noticed the cop car also stopped on the other side of the intersection staring in disbelief...

To get to the point,my five minute ride turned into a 20 minute high speed police chase...I hopped the curb onto a dirt path,tried to negotiate a speedway type slide turn and sent both of us flying...Buddy took off,I lifted bike off my badly damaged knee and started it luckily on first kick as cop was closing on foot...Passed buddy on path,he hopped back on and away we escaped...

That was the last time I ever drove drunk...

I'm sorry for your schoolmates Texace..Hope you can help some of them get over this...

Swager · « **Reply #21 on:** February 21, 2002, 09:38:50 PM »

Texace!

That sucks dude! I think of lives wasted. It can all happen so fast! Unfortunately it takes something like this to make teens realize how it can happen!

Good luckand my best wishes are with you and your community!

Swagger

Maverick · « **Reply #22 on:** February 21, 2002, 09:45:45 PM »

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Originally posted by SirLoin
I remember when I got my license and my first vehicle(a Yamaha DT200R)...Not long after, I met a buddy at bar and got stinkin drunk...For some reason me felt compelled to ride home and my bud wanted on back.I gave him my helmet(Moto 4) and started the 5 minute trek home...I pulled up to the second last stop sign and promptly fell over,both of us having a good laugh..I picked up bike,kicked it over and was about to put it in gear when I noticed the cop car also stopped on the other side of the intersection staring in disbelief...

To get to the point,my five minute ride turned into a 20 minute high speed police chase...I hopped the curb onto a dirt path,tried to negotiate a speedway type slide turn and sent both of us flying...Buddy took off,I lifted bike off my badly damaged knee and started it luckily on first kick as cop was closing on foot...Passed buddy on path,he hopped back on and away we escaped...

That was the last time I ever drove drunk...

I'm sorry for your schoolmates Texace..Hope you can help some of them get over this...

Wonderful story. Endangered your life, your passengers life, the life of the Police Officer who has a duty to try and save yours and then you flee thereby risking EVERYONE"S life on the road in your general vicinity. That is a wonderful story of responsibility. It is just as senseless as the death of the teens in the wreck that started this post. They weren't as lucky as you were. In my state that wold make you a felon to boot.

Mav

Tac · « **Reply #23 on:** February 21, 2002, 10:28:59 PM »

heh, in my country if you drive recklessly, sooner or later you'll piss off one of the thousands of "traquetos" (kids of drug lords or kingpins) and you get the receiving end of automatic fire.

I remember a trip my family and I made to a neighboring city, had to take the "highway"... and some buttmunch driving a BUS (empty) was passing people and shoving his bulk in front of cars, almost making them crash..the guy was obviously doing that on purpose.

Till he did that to a guy in a Ninja motorcycle (those japanese sporty racing bikes)..ooh boy, the guy went right up to the bus's side, (we were 2 cars behind the bus) and emptied some kind of submachinegun on the engine and tires.

No idea if the driver got hit, we just passed the bus and went on our merry way.

We dont have police, but heck, its almost as good

hblair · « **Reply #24 on:** February 21, 2002, 11:45:40 PM »

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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
When I think about the confusion of adolescense combined with driving a car, I often wonder how I made it out.

AKDejaVu

Amen.
Been in several bad wrecks, driven while very drunk, did idiotic things in cars, but somehow was never hurt. Somehow made it out.

Sorry to hear of your friends deaths texace.

Octavius · « **Reply #25 on:** February 21, 2002, 11:55:46 PM »

Had a similar story here in Wisconsin last year. 4 teens -high honors, good grades, the works- were on their way back from Madison after meeting the Gov and some other business. They were taken out by a drunk driver I believe. All four.. gone.. in the blink of an eye. Four different kids, four different families. So many people affected by one drunk idiot. Knowing the risks of driving intoxicated doesn't make it worth driving at all. Hell, nothing makes it worth the risk of driving drunk. A danger to yourself and a danger to others. My brother lost his license for a few months and served a month in jail for 3 DWI's... he learned quickly after that experience. It just isnt worth it. My condolences Texace...