A friend...sort of
...always had a thing for fast cars, despite the fact that he couldn't drive.

When another friend of ours (who was very high up in a large medical firm and was one of the youngest self made entries into Who's Who) bought a stupidly fast double-turbo, whizz-bang sports car thing, the chap couldn't resist the constant "go on mate, how fast does it go", "It don't look that fast" etc... and took the goading friend in the car with him.

It was about midnight.

Anyway about 1 mile down the road there is a long straight with a twist in the road at the same time as a humped-back bridge.

It was at this point that the car (according to police reports) was doing about 130 mph (the road has been reduced to 40mph from 60mph now due to this incident - although how that would have stopped this from happening I have no idea).

The car hit the bridge and being mid engined had little weight at the back, and so the back of the car took off and upon hitting the ground again spun round and started what could only be described as a 'speed wobble'.

Then...BANG! the car hit something head on and the windscreen caved in ripping my friends ear clean off resulting in lots of blood. Everywhere.

Eventually the car comes to a halt and they realise that there is a LOT of blood all over the bonnet of the car. Far more than can be created from merely ripping your ear clean off.

In fact, there was blood all along the road, and all up the bank and all over the pavement...

...for about 200 yards.

It was then that the source of all the blood became very apparent.

Some poor old dear was out walking her dog and chose that exact moment to cross the road back to the side of the road where her house was.

The dog ended up on the other side of the sea wall (a wall on the adjacent side of the road, about 30 ft high!), she ended up about 200 yards down the same road. In bits.

There was so much blood it looked like the aftermath of a Scream movie.

In the car. Outside the car. On the walls. On the road. On other peoples houses. On the pavement.

It's a particularly sad story, and one made worse by the fact that the chap driving was only 24 years old, had just been made the youngest ever director of one of the worlds largest pharmacutical companies, the woman was the head of the 'road safety awareness' pressure group, and the dog. Well the poor bloody dog was just minding it's own business, probably rather pleased with itself after just having got rid of a steaming eric.

Driver got 4 years.

Bloke who's ear was ripped off, sued the driver and won (on the drivers advice mind you).

The road was closed for the next 10 hours while they got the fire brigade to come and hose all the blood away after they had taken all the measurements.

To be fair to the chap driving, he put his hands up to it straight away and plead guilty in court.

Just read that back - sorry for the lack of funnies.
(dchurch bah, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 15:46, 9 replies)

Yikes
And the moral of the story is to only do 130 on an empty stretch of motorway that you sort of know.
(slotbadger, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 16:35, closed)

Not sure if
4 years is enough really.
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 16:43, closed)

What a
Complete Shit.
(Scrumpy does not negotiate with terrorists,, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 16:57, closed)

Fuck. Me.
I can't imagine what it must have been like as the realisation dawned.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 17:11, closed)

Holy shit O_o
Remember kids: inappropriate speed is a very bad thing.

Dead right on the comment about the speed limit though: how is reducing the limit from 60 to 40 going to stop someone driving at 130? It's a stupid kneejerk reaction and it's probably made the road more dangerous now through people getting frustrated from driving unnecessarily slowly.


/rant
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 17:40, closed)

@scrumpy
Yeah, to be fair to him, he did put his hands up to it, and was mortified.

He paid for a bench and made sure her husband was well cared for too.

Although I agree, it was the least he could do.
(dchurch bah, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 17:41, closed)

@prof
Yep.

That's exactly what has happened since. People come flying down that road still even now. The limit has made no difference apart from making people take even more risks overtaking.

The cost of reducing it was huge too - as it was a causeway, apparently they had to move the street lights closer together to make it a 'semi-built-up area' and thus warrant the change of speed limit.

Like I said, no-one takes any notice - it IS a fast road, and not one that I enjoy crossing over on foot at any time of day.
(dchurch bah, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 17:44, closed)

I know this guy is a friend of yours
but what a complete twat.

However we all do stupid things when we are young, sadly he had the money to buy something lethal to do it in.

Although nothing can be done to bring the lady back I hope that he feels enough remorse to be a sensible driver now.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Tue 12 Aug 2008, 18:10, closed)

True...
....when I was 24 years old I had a R Reg (76) Vaxhaull Chevette.

It was hard enough getting that to do 30, let alone 130.
(dchurch bah, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 18:59, closed)