If your gonna do it

[u8myufo]

Do it properly, something you can look at from both sides and say perhaps it is no more than they deserve. On the other hand as usual it is those close to the victims that have to live and come to terms with it.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...ured-as-highspeed-cars-hit-lorry-9021643.html

 

[BRASH]

It phisses me off when nut jobs like this crash into another vehicle and take innocent lives. Not in this case thankfully, just his two passengers. Great Xmas for the families

 

[Sonriendo]

Complete arses

 

[MWHCVT]

Very sad for the families of those involved and for the poor people who had to witness it...tragically it's the Xbox generation thing IMO driving like they have a reset button

 

[cambsno]

No sympathy. These people could have killed innocent people and we are better off without them. People need to be responsible for their actions.

 

[Neil B]

Feel sorry for the poor guy driving the bread wagon.

 

[nilagin]

tragically it's the Xbox generation thing IMO driving like they have a reset button

Fairly sure street racing predates games consoles by a long long way.

 

[MWHCVT]

Fairly sure street racing predates games consoles by a long long way.

Of course it does but as the article mentioned they were teens/early twenties hence Xbox generation

 

[PMN]

There was a similar thing in the next village to me a few months ago. A young guy driving some form of high powered sports car (can't remember the model) lost control doing something like 100mph and ploughed into a hairdressers shop, there were three in the car and all died. Some people from the pub there I frequent tried to keep them alive as long as they could but they died fairly quickly. One of the people was a girl who'd been warned not to get in the car because of the risk of something like this happening, sadly she made the wrong choice.

I'm really torn with things like this, it's very easy to say I have no sympathy for them (particularly the driver) and in a way I don't, but that doesn't stop me thinking the whole situation is tragic. It isn't just those who died, it's their families affected by the loss, the fact people who saw the accident happen had to deal with it, etc. The effects of these things are always wider than just some idiots killing themselves and it's that I find the tragic bit.

The one positive to come from both incidents (if anything like this can be described as positive) is that they only killed themselves and no-one else.

 

[TCR4x4]

There was a similar thing in the next village to me a few months ago. A young guy driving some form of high powered sports car (can't remember the model) lost control doing something like 100mph and ploughed into a hairdressers shop, there were three in the car and all died. Some people from the pub there I frequent tried to keep them alive as long as they could but they died fairly quickly. One of the people was a girl who'd been warned not to get in the car because of the risk of something like this happening, sadly she made the wrong choice.

I'm really torn with things like this, it's very easy to say I have no sympathy for them (particularly the driver) and in a way I don't, but that doesn't stop me thinking the whole situation is tragic. It isn't just those who died, it's their families affected by the loss, the fact people who saw the accident happen had to deal with it, etc. The effects of these things are always wider than just some idiots killing themselves and it's that I find the tragic bit.

The one positive to come from both incidents (if anything like this can be described as positive) is that they only killed themselves and no-one else.

I remember that incident, it was on the news and I think one of those "police" programs. Also, Im sure it was on here, someone knew the driver or passengers and was getting annoyed at people badmouthing them and saying how they had no sympathy for them.. Anyone who drives like that in a built up area deserves all they get, and anytime they take an innocent life in the process makes me very angry indeed.

 

[PMN]

I remember that incident, it was on the news and I think one of those "police" programs. Also, Im sure it was on here, someone knew the driver or passengers and was getting annoyed at people badmouthing them and saying how they had no sympathy for them.. Anyone who drives like that in a built up area deserves all they get, and anytime they take an innocent life in the process makes me very angry indeed.

It wasn't pretty. The building they ploughed into hasn't been touched since it was fenced off after the accident so it's still there, front smashed up, as a grim reminder of what happened.

I've heard stories locally of people connected with those who died getting frustrated at the lack of sympathy for them and I think that's perfectly understandable. The only information we have of these people is that they sped recklessly through a village and killed themselves, therefore they're idiots. Friends and family see it very differently and I have tremendous sympathy for them and what they must go through in cases like this. As for the driver/passengers deserving what they get, I don't think I could ever bring myself to wish another human being dead especially in such terrible circumstances. That said we make choices in life, some good, some bad. We know risks exist when we do stupid things and we either back out or continue, sadly these people made a bad choice and paid the ultimate price. Again, it's the families I feel for in such circumstances, it's never fun losing loved ones however it happens.

 

[seriousrikk]

The drivers were idiots, about that there is no question.

But despite being idiots, this is still huge and tragic loss of innocent life. A lot of people will be seriously affected by this accident over the coming days/weeks. Families and friend of course. Witnesses. And the emergency servicemen and women who had to clean up afterwards (not many folk think of them).

 

[PMN]

The drivers were idiots, about that there is no question.

But despite being idiots, this is still huge and tragic loss of innocent life. A lot of people will be seriously affected by this accident over the coming days/weeks. Families and friend of course. Witnesses. And the emergency servicemen and women who had to clean up afterwards (not many folk think of them).

Exactly. I can never understand why most people never seem to think it affects anyone but the people who died, it's always much, much wider than that.