Street Racing: The carnage continues

[Quickurt]

I witnessed a three year old girl going into a life-flight helicopter, after being removed from the carnage of an accident. An officer had to be pulled off from kicking her dead father, laying on the ground.
Cause of accident? High speed police chase on a dead end country road.
Isn't a high speed chase street racing that's legal for one of the participants?

[LoveBunny]

Unfortunately there are, and always will be, a whole buttload of stupid people in this world. Years ago my mom witnessed a woman she knew get killed when she got in the way of two cars racing. My mom watched her take her last breath.

[nefarious986]

Stories like this makes me thank god that he was looking over my shoulder when I was younger. Although nothing as dumb as racing with my new born baby, I can't say I've always been able to resist the urge to do stupid stuff for the momentary thrill. I think that's true for all of us at one time or another.

The guilt / pain of killing your own child would be punishment enough for him. That's a life sentence of personal guilt and trauma on top of whatever jail time criminal charges felony reckless driving carries. No need to take him out back with a shotgun.

That said, if he does it a second time .. I'll help load your gun.

[Brucelee]

Part of maturing is understanding that what you did or are doing is really very stupid. Once you have a child, it is time to get smart pretty quickly.

Obviously, this doesn't happen as much as we would like.

[LoveBunny]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

Part of maturing is understanding that what you did or are doing is really very stupid. Once you have a child, it is time to get smart pretty quickly.

Obviously, this doesn't happen as much as we would like.

yeah, seriously. I don't have chlidren, but I can't for the life of me imagine street racing (if I was so inclined) with my dog even in the car, let alone a baby. I used to even drive slower when my ex's 5-year-old son was in the back.

[Burg Boxster]

Originally Posted by LoveBunny

I used to even drive slower when my ex's 5-year-old son was in the back.

Hey LB it's illegal to put children in the trunk of a vehicle no matter how slow you drive

[Topless]

In my youth I lost two friends to canyon racing. One was high speed motorcycle crosses center line meets pickup truck head on. The other, less than a year later was 90mph hot rod Chevy over a cliff. I miss those guys. Kinda took the party out of street racing for me.

Last week I was passed on the freeway by two cars going 100+ and diving in and out of traffic. One narrowly missed clipping a mommobile SUV. Where is that hood mounted 20mm cannon when you really need it.

[LoveBunny]

Originally Posted by Burg Boxster

Hey LB it's illegal to put children in the trunk of a vehicle no matter how slow you drive

Ahh, that was in an SUV!

I guess my dad used to street race when he was young, but at least they did it on windy roads out in the middle of nowhere. He flipped an MG over and flew out and busted himself up pretty badly. He was lucky though. If he'd stayed in the car he would have probably broken his neck. Now at age 67 he drives slow as a snail.

[RandallNeighbour]

Originally Posted by LoveBunny

Unfortunately there are, and always will be, a whole buttload of stupid people in this world.

Never have truer words been typed.

[pteam]

Originally Posted by Quickurt

I witnessed a three year old girl going into a life-flight helicopter, after being removed from the carnage of an accident. An officer had to be pulled off from kicking her dead father, laying on the ground.
Cause of accident? High speed police chase on a dead end country road.
Isn't a high speed chase street racing that's legal for one of the participants?

The officer was kicking the dead father laying on the ground? why?

[Quickurt]

Originally Posted by pteam

The officer was kicking the dead father laying on the ground? why?

The officer was upset at what he had done to the little girl.
I was building a house on the road and found out the same cop punched the cop chasing them. The father had kidnapped his daughter from ex-wife. Another custody battle gone fatal. The girl didn't survive.

[FrayAdjacent]

Sounds kinda like the infant was not properly restrained.

But yeah, street racing is STUPID.