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Originally Posted by Shano592
We had an interesting incident last night ....
As the wind was so strong last night, any telescoping opportunity was non-existent, so I decided to stay in and watch Picard et al's antics on the box.
At about 10:15pm from out on the street, there was the sound of 4 wheels in an uncontrolled slide across road surface. I looked up, and all I saw was the flash of headlights across my second-storey windows.
I heard 2 noises - a whump and then a crunch. Before I knew it, I was downstairs and out the door. I made it to the car, just as the driver was freeing himself from the wreckage. He ran around to the passenger side to free his accomplice (frontal damage, so the fenders had jammed the doors shut), and then they bolted!
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Waste of a perfectly good XR6. Along with my retaining wall. That was the crunching sound. He has tried to drift around the corner at at least 60km/h, completely lost any grip and slid across the road ... through the drainage ditch (the whumping sound of dirt flying everywhere), into my property, damaging my dirt driveway, and crunching through the wooden retaining wall.
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I find amazing that you can come to this conclusion after seeing just a flash of headlights. Could it not be that the driver has just misjudged the corner in probably pretty bad weather conditions. Had it been raining at all? How do you know he was drunk? Why do you surmise that he was on drugs?
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Originally Posted by Shano592
Amazingly, the airbags didn't deploy (I'm guessing due to the more significant sideways motion) which means the car may not be written off. His insurance, however ...
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Does an XR6 have side airbags? The driver and passenger front ones would not have deployed as the car was involved in a sideways collision. If it does have side airbags and they didn't go off, then it hasn't hit your wall very hard.
What is the speed limit along that stretch of road, is it 50, 60 or more? You seem to be judging this person because they have made a single, possibly simple error. What would people call you if they had seen you at your worst?
It seems, like many other things in this country, that it's easier to make up a catchy slogan (speed kills, stop the boats etc) and to brand people (hoons, illegal arrivals etc) than it is to tackle the real causes of the problems. So, keep up the good work, don't look any deeper than you need to find the slogan or branding that is convenient, your elected government will thank you for not delving into the issues and coming up with inconvenient facts.
/rant
Cheers
Stuart