Tripple Fatal in werribie

[XR Martin]

Video

http://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2011/03/26/3174478.htm

[EB_5.0_WAGON]

In my time in the NSW RFS I have attended quite a few accidents. Many of them involving trees.

It is not just young people like the poor souls lost in this accident that can lose control whether at excessive speed or at the speed limit.

I can remember 1 accident where a father killed one of his sons and put the other into hospital after loosing control and hitting an immovable object( bloody big gum tree).
I knoiw the reasons for the above accident happening and i wont go into it here just to say it WAS NOT speeding that caused it.

Thats my 2c worth on the subject.

[Jim Goose]

Interesting footage.... cant see any skid marks on the road? nor much in the way of tyre tracks in the ground? Was it in the right hand lane and then lost control on a straight section of road?

[Scott]

Accidents/incidents/crashes or whatever we term them now are so damned violent and so bloody final.

Regardless of the circumstances, there are a lot of unhappy people down there right now and three young lives have been lost.

It's become too easy to trivialise happenings like this since the world has become so "connected".

[Ben73]

Originally Posted by FPV8U

Hitting a pole in a old commodore wagon sideways.. do any of you guys actually know it had to be doing more than 50 or 60 or 70 at point of contact?

I agree with this.

Next time any of you are doing 50, watch a powerpole as you pass it, imagine hitting it at that speed. Then imagine you are in a 15 year old car and that pole is coming in your door.
Don't have to be going overly fast to be badly injured.


Having said that, I know nothing about the conditions of this particular crash.

[XR Martin]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Interesting footage.... cant see any skid marks on the road? nor much in the way of tyre tracks in the ground? Was it in the right hand lane and then lost control on a straight section of road?

Overtaking at warp speed perhaps? Who knows

[mik]

condolences to the family's involved, there is something to be said for driving a late model car with the safety features, specially for the younger inexperienced folk, you could put money on it these youngsters would probably not been out of control in the first place, and with the extra side impact and roof strength some may have survived.

[Trevor 57]

Originally Posted by bob129

I can't see any skid marks on the bitumen there either....

That is because the car has travelled from the right of the photo, you can see tyres marks in the dirt/grass.

[Legit290]

someone has lost a son. a daughter, a friend, a classmate, a sister, a brother, a girlfriend, a boyfriend, a teammate, a workmate or a soulmate
Three lives and one in the balance. Take care on the road everyone! Your lives are so precious! To their familes and loved ones...respect and condolences.

[jpd80]

We should remember how fragile human life is and how easy it can be taken,
we go out for a drive just assuming we are coming home again safe and sound.

On average each day, 93 people are involved in serious crashes 89 are hospitalised, 4 are dead.

[XRATE-UTERUS]

Idiots never learn do they, the driver is lucky to be where he is really..........Imagine having to live with killing your friends ?????

[jpd80]

Can we please have some respect for the dead and hold off judging until the facts are known...

[Brazen]

Originally Posted by flappist

Well funny you should mention that.

My little brother was killed on Feb 7 this year and there were quite a few suspicious circumstances.

The coroner took several weeks to exonerate all involved.

So how would I feel now if I had treated them the same way you are treating these?

edit: I see you have taken your first comments out. I too find it is usually better to think about things more than once before typing them on the forum.

Very sorry to hear of your loss

[JACK250]

Originally Posted by FPV8U

Hitting a pole in a old commodore wagon sideways.. do any of you guys actually know it had to be doing more than 50 or 60 or 70 at point of contact?

I don't... i'd suggest many of us don't, unless qualified to make such claims perhaps considering 3 people with long lives ahead of them have died would could keep our mouths shut.

TBH i can't belive we arn't allowed to talk about political matters but we can sit here throwing darts at the dead all night long.

Well said, I can't believe the attitudes of people on here, for one it could be an honest mistake, and two, even if he was doing something stupid, does that mean he deserved to die? People are so fast to judge, I bet their opinion would change if it was someone close to them

[JBomb3000]

Originally Posted by Road_Warrior

Ugh is that blood I can see on the power pole

Nah it's paint

[Danny]

Originally Posted by FPV8U

I can't belive we arn't allowed to talk about political matters but we can sit here throwing darts at the dead all night long.

Oh wow, that is the best post I have ever ever read on AFF Bar none. Congrats mate. Exactly the feeling I have. Very very good work.

Flappist, Props to you also, Let's wait and see, even if all preliminary evidence points to what may or may not be obvious.

-Dan

[gtxb67]

Originally Posted by JBomb3000

Nah it's paint

it looks like blood to me - beneath the roof of the car it certainly looks like fluid

Originally Posted by jpd80

Can we please have some respect for the dead and hold off judging until the facts are known...

i applaud your sentiments, but to me i think we should respect the living. if we did that, we would be respecting the dead anyway, but to me we should be respecting people when (we can be sure) they actually know that we are showing respect

[Papa Smurf]

Sad, so far three young lives extinguished and a fourth still in hospital.

[EFJay]

Not wanting to stir up cr@p but....
there has to be a point were the bleeding hearts of this world stop with the oh poor them cr@p and look at what has happened... There are kids killing themselves and others due to spupid behaviour on the roads. Saying oh you cant say that cos we dont have the facts is a cop out. Look at what has happened at the same site by so called friends of those that died and we see concrete proof that these idiots have not learned anything and more than likely never will.. The police should be given MORE power to sieze and impound these cars...first stop any commo / falcon with nice chromies on the front and stockies on the rear..burnout spec knobheads

[NAFairlane]

I think kids and young drivers needs to realise that its not killing themselves that is so much the problem, its the people in the other car, on the footpath etc that they are going to potentially kill. Kids are fearless, and dont care about killing themselves. We need to put emphasis on the fact that its not about them, its about everyone else.

[EFJay]

Originally Posted by JACK250

Well said, I can't believe the attitudes of people on here, for one it could be an honest mistake, and two, even if he was doing something stupid, does that mean he deserved to die? People are so fast to judge, I bet their opinion would change if it was someone close to them

I have had someone close to me taken from this world by some tool that made a " stupid mistake " and to this day i will never forgive..

When these idiots decide to fool around on public roads i think that they should have their car taken and their right to EVER drive on the roads taken away. Might sound harsh but its a lot less harsh then getting a knock on the day at 3 am from the police to tell you that your kids been killed while being a tool in a car....

end rant

[SEZ213]

Originally Posted by NAFairlane

I think kids and young drivers needs to realise that its not killing themselves that is so much the problem, its the people in the other car, on the footpath etc that they are going to potentially kill. Kids are fearless, and dont care about killing themselves. We need to put emphasis on the fact that its not about them, its about everyone else.

Nail, head, you got it...

[Jim Goose]

Well after reading the other thread in which idiots did burn outs at the site of the fatality, I daresay any sort of sympathy is now out the window.

Its quite sad to see how incredibly stupid these kids are... 3 people got killed on that spot and they do burnouts on the spot????

[mr smith]

Originally Posted by ginger

Not wanting to stir up cr@p but....
there has to be a point were the bleeding hearts of this world stop with the oh poor them cr@p and look at what has happened... There are kids killing themselves and others due to spupid behaviour on the roads. Saying oh you cant say that cos we dont have the facts is a cop out. Look at what has happened at the same site by so called friends of those that died and we see concrete proof that these idiots have not learned anything and more than likely never will.. The police should be given MORE power to sieze and impound these cars...first stop any commo / falcon with nice chromies on the front and stockies on the rear..burnout spec knobheads

Spot on. I think the antics of the friends proves the early conclusions of most people here to be correct. I personaly am glad no innocent people were involved and especially I feel for the residents who now have to put up with not only some idiot risking their lives with the initial incident, but also the bogan friends hanging around the site.

[Bobman]

Originally Posted by Jim Goose

Well after reading the other thread in which idiots did burn outs at the site of the fatality, I daresay any sort of sympathy is now out the window.

Its quite sad to see how incredibly stupid these kids are... 3 people got killed on that spot and they do burnouts on the spot????

What about the Mill Park crash? Friends of the deceased were caught speeding and doing burnouts as well.

Or the Warrnambool funeral burnout for another road crash fatality...

[Bobman]

A double fatality at the moment also involving a Holden station wagon and three others critical - this time in Crib Point:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/mor...-1226030423752

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by Bobman

A double fatality at the moment also involving a Holden station wagon and three others critical - this time in Crib Point:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/mor...-1226030423752

I think that the government must get tough on these bloody power poles that keep jumping out in front of cars.

[JG65TE]

heard the bang from my place. dropped power out too. went for a look, not real pretty but bulban rd ge lots of so called hoon drivers on it. there is now rubber all over the road from his mates showing "respect" for what i consider excessive speed coupled with poor driving skills. pity the cops didnt catch and book the respect driver. Seems a lot of people in wezza either knew or had a friend that knew them. condolances to the families involved. it wont stop anyone else from driving in the manner in which this car was driven tho...... (as showed by respect driver) at that age, they are all bulletproof....... maybe the powerpole should have been made out of bullets ??

[Bud Bud]

After looking at the footage from the ABC, I have to ask, what the hell is up with the design of that road!!! Before anyone suggests that it is fine at moderate speeds and if they were only doing moderate speeds then they would still be here today, don't you think that they have designed a slalom course instead of a safety feature???

Bud Bud

[XRtowcar]

Obviouly have to ban people driving killer Commodores.