Saw a Fatality Today...

[Professor Farnsworth]

Originally Posted by hrtrip

Driving back to a mates places today down Doncaster Rd, Doncaster (VIC) at about 3:30ish this afternoon (monday) and a cop car came flying past us - in a real big rush!! Anyway there was a fair bit of traffic about and it suddenly slowed up real bad. At this point i was slowing down and my mate and I were wondering what the hell was goign on - if there was a guy speeding or whatever. So we see the cop car about 50 metres down the road and there is a fairly substantial crowd of people looking down at something. We get closer only to see a VN absolutely smashed. Roof was bent in hardcore and i mean BENT in. Get a little closer and realise the guy is still in the car still sitting in his seat which was in the back seat... his seat had been pushed so far back that he was still sitting in it but in the back! A bit of blood trickling down his head, obviously knocked out if not dead. We see 2 fire trucks coming from wither direction - one on the wrong side of the road. At this stage my mate and I are like what the ******, how did this guy manage to get himself into this mess on a straight 3 lane road. I Dropped my mate back and went to have another sticky beak about 10 minutes later. By this time there were 3 fire trucks 4 police cars and 2 ambulances, the fire trucks had just put away 2 of the "jaws of life". Then i saw the unfortunate soul on a stretcher... with a white blanket over him.

Pretty terrifying stuff, not what I really wanted to see on my way home. Makes me think back to all the stupid stuff I have done in my car and realise how lucky I have been - may he rest in peace

HRT R.I.P

That's no good mate, i've witnessed a fatal accident unfold right infront of me on the western fwy, in melton. Let's just say the guy wasn't in a good way after going through the windshield at 100. Went up to see if we could help to find his head wasn't really intact any more..

It's a rotten thing to witness, but is unfortunately an every day event. Talk to someone if you want to get anything off your chest, i didn't, but for some reason it didn't have the effect on me i thought it may, so i suppose i'm lucky in a way.

On a lighter note, i saw you on sunday (if your're the guy that owns the GT with xr8 wheels), was at Shell in Mill Park, i walked past you but didn't recognise your face, but did recognise the car as i sat back down in mine.

cheers

chris.