Just something to think about when streetracing guys. Be careful out there

[Redlyne_mr2]

This sort of puts a good perspective on streetracing...its just not worth it
From the [H]ard Forum

By Far Side
Listen up...

Tonight was one of the most shocking nights I have ever had. Some of you may know I'm a volunteer firefighter. I don't get to ride in the cool fire-truck, I'm stuck driving a 99 F-250 "Emergency Response Team" truck (carries the other diver and I and all of the medical/diving/fire/EMS equipment). Anyway we were on our way back from a small kitchen fire when we got behind a semi ricey Eclipse GS-X a pretty ricey Accord V6 and a Camaro RS (this is on a 4 lane road). Now the fuckers had been racing each other light to light and swerving past all slower traffic. So once we got behind them we were going to radio in their plates but before we could the light turned green and off they went.

About maybe a quarter mile ahead was a mini-van (Dodge I beleive) that had turned the way they were going. The Accord in the far right lane was being blocked by the mini van so decided to cut off on the shoulder and attempt to pass the van. Well the rumble strip sort of pulled the car further to the right more the he expected I guess and he cut back left throwing himself infront of the mini-van and Camaro. The 3 racers had to be doing about 80 by now, but the Accord went sideways into the van and then continued on into the Camaro and then into the cement median doing 83 (what the spedo was stuck at we later found). The van ended up rolling because it tried to cut and miss the accord as it hit it.

When we got up to the scene I almost lost my dinner. I've seen gun shot victims, scraped people off railraod tracks, you name it I've probably seen it but this I just couldn't handle. I ran to the Accord first to see what was there. The driver went through the windshield and into the cement median, what was left of his skull was now somewhere compounded into his shoulders and the median. The passanger was a very beautiful girl about my age (19) whos arm was compound fractured beyond physical recognition, and ears were bleeding like crazy. No seat belt either. (Airbags were both removed because of the momo wheel and "engine management consol" on the passanger side) She had some apparent head injury from the windsheild and was either uncounsious or dead. Nothing I could really do in that car at the time.

I ran over to the Camaro to see what was up there. The guy maye 25 or so was ok. Had his seat belt on and everything. I jsut screamed at him to stay in the car until te cops came.

Off in the distance the fucking Eclipse didn't even stop to see what happened. He fled a fast as his car could go.

Just as I noticed the eclipse, my partner who radio'ed for help and then ran over to van screamed "Chris get the fuck over here". This is where I almost lost it. The van on its side held a mother and 2 children, none which were responsive. I crawled into the middle window where I thought the yougest child was. She had to be maybe 4 at the oldest. No seat belt. Was thrown into the window when it rolled then into the pavement I would have imagined. Her head had a rather obvious dent in it BUT she was breathing. I pulled her through the window.

In the passanger seat was a younger boy maybe 10 whos arm was crushed under the tipped over van. It later had to be amputated but he will live do the the 7 minutes of CPR that we did.

The mother was the only one with her seat belt on, the airbag broke her nose and somehow knocker her out. But she is fine. Was concious by the time we got her son breathing again.

The fucker in the Camaro got cuffed and taken away. The girl in the Accord was airlifted away. The young girl in the van later died tonight/this morning from massive head trauma. The driver of the accord obviously died of the same. The boy in the van will live as well, just one arm short.

Sorry about the bad grammer, I'm still in shock. I doubt I'll get much sleep tonight.

But for you assholes that like to pull this shit on occupied roads please PLEASE PLEASE take it to the track. Save your life and someone elses. I'm done ranting now. For those that read this, thanks.

[ecstasy_civic]

oh my god i cant believe that, actually i can. theres alot of bad drivers out there, its too bad that it would take that much for some kids to realize what they've done. i hope people read this and think twice about street racing. i do enjoy goofing around sometimes but never to that extent.

[shadowz]

Wow thats intense, I have seen and heard of safer racing but this just makes me not wanna be part of any kind of streetr racing at all, man some people are idiots

[5gluder]

Redlyne_mr2, I have great respect you for being a volunteer Firefighter. I fellow at my work used to do the same, it's a hard job to see horrifying circumstances such as the one you encountered last night. Since you actually saw what happened and the ending results it must be pretty hard on you. Sorry that you hard to experience that. The innocent family in the mini-van, so sad to hear what happened to them. My condolences go out the mother of the innocent child.

[Pole Position]

No matter how many times these kind of stories are being told, people will still streetrace. But hopefully these kind of stories will remind people.

Bad drivers cannot be the blame, it is stupid drivers who use their ass to think.

I was involved in an accident streetracing almost 2 years ago. I was stupid and I was lucky that I wasn't hurt or anything. But I was very scared at that moment.

So guys, take a moment and think about this.

[bosa]

Man thats intense...Even you know I'm a few years from getting my license,all you drivers on here,and out there,be careful when on the roads at high speeds. Only street race,when they're is noone around you,or else you,and another driver could get hurt when you get careless.And like those dumb idiots did,kept racing light after light,thats kind of pointless.Man,like you either lost or won,no need to keep racing when there are other automobiles around....

[Redlyne_mr2]

Originally posted by 5gluder
Redlyne_mr2, I have great respect you for being a volunteer Firefighter. I fellow at my work used to do the same, it's a hard job to see horrifying circumstances such as the one you encountered last night. Since you actually saw what happened and the ending results it must be pretty hard on you. Sorry that you hard to experience that. The innocent family in the mini-van, so sad to hear what happened to them. My condolences go out the mother of the innocent child.

actually dude that wasnt my post the source was posted at the top of the thread..I appreciate the response however had this been my experience

[5gluder]

Originally posted by Redlyne_mr2

actually dude that wasnt my post the source was posted at the top of the thread..I appreciate the response however had this been my experience

Yeah i scrolled down and missed the first couple lines, still such a sad story.

[van]

Man that's fucked up. This is why you shouldn't do that kind of stupid shit on the road especially when you KNOW better and that YOU KNOW there are ALWAYS family vehicles driving around. Nobody deserves to lose their life to show-off how fast their car can be.

Why can't you just dyno it and check there? Same deal. In my opinion anyways.

Sigh.

[boi-alien]

omg.... i just don't get it... there's a time and place for everything, and public roads are not for street racing... that's just crazy, it really sucks to read/hear about stuff like this

[silverEL]

Deepest condolences go out the mother of the innocent child.

[infamous]

i feel so bad for the mother of the child who died. but i hope the guy in the camaro gets life, and i hope that they catch the dumb fucks in the eclipse. this is why i don't like street racing through town when there are other cars around that aren't involved. you never know who's in the car next to you, and to know that you played a part in killing an innocent 4 year old child is something that you would have to live with for the rest of your life. i believe that racing should be kept to a track, or at the bare minimum, at least to side streets in the industrial area where no one else can get hurt other than the people involved....

mike

[Luke 96 T/A]

Originally posted by infamous
i feel so bad for the mother of the child who died.

mike

I'd feel bad for her... but remember;
she didn't buckle her children into the van!!
she's not completely blameless either.. you should always remember to seatbelt...

[max_boost]

Yup, its true......Speed Kills and it will catch up to you

Its terrible to hear about the lost of lives due to such tragic circumstances.....

[szw]

yes its sad, but more common than you would think, which makes it even more sad.

[Mikko]

Luke is right.


The accord people seemingly got just what they deserved, which is good in a way but also very sad for their loved ones. Then the van, well the mother was probably an idiot (assuming the belts worked).

I saw a study that only about half of the american drivers (60%) bother buckling up, and far less than that in the rear seat.

[Brutality]

There is almost nothing you can say about that? Wow I'm in shock.

[hjr]

This really proves that seat belts work. I use mine all the time, its a habit now. For the folks that dont, do it for 3 weeks and it'll be a habit for you too.

The wierdest thing is that the folks in the accord wernt buckled up. Im mean shit, your acctually racing down tha road and you dont even consider taking a few seconds for yourself. Alot of the times, the street racers only hurt/kill themselves from a loss of control and busting a median or poll so you think they would get strapped in. All the racers were fizucks but the level of intelligence definetly varied between them, look at the camero guy, definetly more brain matter as seat belt was on and there was not a scratch on him.


I think that the real lesson here is seatbelts. Those with em survived, those without died or were extremly injuded....


oh ya, light draggin is bad. I have more understanding for the large groups of racers who block off country roads and race each other so the only people endangered are themselves.........

[RickDaTuner]

worst part about all this is that pretty girl got hurt


Street racing= less hot girls

no but seriously Dont street race

[GTS Jeff]

geez, its stuff liek this that makes me scared to not use a seatbelt..

seirously, it feels unsafe just to drive down a block at 50 without a seatbelt for me