Life can be so cruel

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Well I feel very emotional and strange right now because I hardly knew the person, but I probably spoke to the mother most out of the whole family.

I was driving home from work, and it was about 5.30pm when the road suddenly come to a stop. I noticed people doing 3 point turns in the road to find another route, so I knew an accident had happened right ahead of us.

I was opposite a side road, so turned into here to heard home in a different direction, and right by this turning is a pub that my Dad is a regular drinker at.

I get home and I've been asleep most of the night due to being so tired, woke up around 9ish and have been looking around the net and watching TV. My Dad gets home from the pub described above and I decide to ask him if he knew what happened directly opposite the place.

He told me that someone got run over, and later went on to explain that it was the daughter of one of the bar maids who happens to live up the same road. She died instantly at the scene pretty much.

She was about 16 max I think, and I've probably only said hi a few times and I carried her brother up the road to their house when my sister baby sat them a few years ago. I don't go to the pub much but when I do, I get on well with the mother, not really spoken to the father but he is a nice chap and always full of fun.

Apparently, people who tried to resuscitate her saw the whole thing and when she was hit - went flying 10+ metres into the air. Road is 30mph limit, so for someone to die instantly and be airborne as they say he must have been speeding. The car... Rover Tomcat, says it all to me. :rolleyes:

I can't even begin to imagine how the parents feel losing a child, especially after the good time they have probably just shared over Christmas. For it to be taken away by some idiot.

I'm not perfect, I speed. I do 35 in a 30 where I feel it's safe. Yet we have a lot of these people in our town with modded cars, who circle the town all night. Flooring it in first from every junction.

Please guys, watch your speed.

I know this won't apply to most of you, but I remembered a guy in motors on here called DAN, who posted a video of him in his Ferrari Nova turbo diesel :rolleyes: throttling his car and over taking cars one at a time in a long queue of traffic on a single lane road.

R.I.P :(
 
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thats very sad to hear, I always hate to hear of people being run over as my cousin was killed new years eve by a gritter lorry.

Life is not fair probably best to just try be there if they need you, always makes me think of my speed when im town :(

Rip
 
Sad news. :(

Its always people who speed in 30's and say they keep to 60 speed limits, surely it should be the other way around due to the 30 being always a area with pedestrians.

Just really sad news. :(
 
Jesus, that's awful. :( Made 100 times worse by the fact that if the person was driving in the manor in which he was supposed to, this wouldn't have happened. God knows what the family must be going through. I really hope you feel better soon and that the family find some way to recover from something like this. :(
 
DunK1 said:

Please stay out of the thread, if you do not have anything constructive to say. Even though she could have still been run over at 30mph, the chances of her dieing if she had been hit at 30 would have been a hell of a lot smaller.
 
I apologise for the omission in my comment. I should have said that it would have been far less likely to happen rather than wouldn't have happened. Don't think I deserved the rolleyes though. :(
 
Mekrel said:
I'm not perfect, I speed. I do 35 in a 30 where I feel it's safe.

To be honest though thats probably what the driver was thinking. For me the much increased risk of killing someone if they get hit just isn't worth taking, no matter how much time it saves off the journey.
 
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Energize said:
To be honest though thats probably what the driver was thinking. For me the much increased risk of killing someone if they get hit just isn't worth taking, no matter how much time it saves off the journey.

True, yet I know there is a difference between doing slightly more speed and how this person drives to show off his amazing car with all its modifications etc.
 
Somebody is dead here....debate about speed on the interwebforum wont change a thing....Make another thread and debate all you wont instead please.

RIP :(
 
Well I didn't see my sister last night, as she works in another pub untill late.

Just woke up and found out from her that the person who ran her over has been convicted of drink driving three times, and has one of those devices attatched to the card to stop him from doing so.
 
Mekrel said:
Well I didn't see my sister last night, as she works in another pub untill late.

Just woke up and found out from her that the person who ran her over has been convicted of drink driving three times, and has one of those devices attatched to the card to stop him from doing so.

:mad: Arrgghh :mad:
 
Mekrel said:
Well I didn't see my sister last night, as she works in another pub untill late.

Just woke up and found out from her that the person who ran her over has been convicted of drink driving three times, and has one of those devices attatched to the card to stop him from doing so.

Was he drunk at the time?
 
We're not sure yet, and I'm not going to jump to conclusions.

She was actually hit on a crossing too, but not sure if the lights were red for the car to stop.
 
sachinbadiani said:
Always be careful when crossing the road or whenever you are out.

I've had people (particularly truck\van drivers) drive inches behind my feet at crossings. I try to be courteous to drivers and not step out in front of them suddenly or when the lights are green. Often this pays off and they stop to let me cross :)
 
In Glasgow when I was walking from halls of residence to university, I was at the pavement and the traffic lights went red. So I cross the road. The black cab waiting at the lights wanted to do a U turn, so just did a U turn, and made me jump quickly back to the pavement. Silly cab driver :mad:
 
Mekrel said:
We're not sure yet, and I'm not going to jump to conclusions.

'The car... Rover Tomcat, says it all to me.'

'Yet we have a lot of these people in our town with modded cars, who circle the town all night. Flooring it in first from every junction.'

Yet you assume it's a 'chav'/boyracer and that the driver was even at fault :confused:

This a pointless thread. We don't know what caused the accident or anything. Is this just a feel sorry for the girl thread? Sure it's sad, but plenty of people die each day and there is no unusual reason why this person should get a thread.
 
:( I felt very emotional a few months back when i saw a biker being tended to on the side of the road, also made me very angry as i had spent all day being a marshall for bike racing on track and having no incidents with bikes going 150+, then going home and seeing this guys cruiser mangled, my bro was on the back, he said he saw the guy moving but still made me sad lol
 
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