R.I.P DannyW

robfosters · 11 Jun 2018 at 20:19

Glad it all went well.

Tom|Nbk · 11 Jun 2018 at 20:30

dominic cousins said:
Great service today
Been a long time reader of overclockers and he was always on about pc building,the thing we first began talking about when he became my partner at work
The world is certainly at a loss without him

Hi Dom glad you signed up.

Blandy999 · 12 Jun 2018 at 02:37

Hi

Im new to this forum as off a few minutes ago. Today i attended dans funeral, it was a lovely service i thought, and meeting some of his family abd friends was very nice. Id never heard of this forum until one of his close friends mentioned it when i introduced myself. He showed me the link and said you should create an account and have a read through some of dans legendary threads and all the nice comments people have left for him.

he was a great lad who i got on very well with straight away when he joined our company “British Gypsum”. He and i would chat about cars and life itself mainly, he had a great outlook on life and i found him very funny and shared the same sarcastic dry humour. Reading some of his threads tonight at work has made me laugh but also made me realise how much of a character he was and will be dearly missed.

RIP Dan.

wonder_lander · 12 Jun 2018 at 09:43

Just caught this thread. RIP DannyW, a true legendary Motors poster.

Tom|Nbk · 12 Jun 2018 at 09:46

Blandy999 said:
Hi

Im new to this forum as off a few minutes ago. Today i attended dans funeral, it was a lovely service i thought, and meeting some of his family abd friends was very nice. Id never heard of this forum until one of his close friends mentioned it when i introduced myself. He showed me the link and said you should create an account and have a read through some of dans legendary threads and all the nice comments people have left for him.

he was a great lad who i got on very well with straight away when he joined our company “British Gypsum”. He and i would chat about cars and life itself mainly, he had a great outlook on life and i found him very funny and shared the same sarcastic dry humour. Reading some of his threads tonight at work has made me laugh but also made me realise how much of a character he was and will be dearly missed.

RIP Dan.

Thanks for joining and sharing your work stories about him yesterday. You are a great bunch of guys.

Deep · 12 Jun 2018 at 11:17

I just saw this thread, absolutely tragic. It's no age to go

RIP DannyW, a brilliant contribution to the forums

Irish_Tom · 12 Jun 2018 at 12:58

I said it earlier in the thread but thanks for representing OcUK yesterday @Tom|Nbk, and a warm welcome to the new members who have joined due to this tragic event, sorry for your loss

Scania · 14 Jun 2018 at 09:27

My first delivery this morning is at Chippindale Plant hire on the Lower Wortley Ring Road where this awful event happened.

Very sobering to be here knowing what happened just outside and especially chilling as I had to sit on the ring road for a few minutes waiting for them to open the gates to let my HGV in.....

On talking to the staff here I’m far more aware of what happened now, so very needless.

CaptainRAVE · 7 Jan 2022 at 00:06

I think of DannyW and this thread from time to time. Been a few years now.

hurfdurf · 7 Jan 2022 at 07:27

Having been on here a number of years, it is very somber knowing that posters, even some I have disagreed with thoroughly, have passed away with no acknowledgement. Glad DannyW got a thread because people were aware.

Scania · 7 Jan 2022 at 11:10

hurfdurf said:
Having been on here a number of years, it is very somber knowing that posters, even some I have disagreed with thoroughly, have passed away with no acknowledgement. Glad DannyW got a thread because people were aware.

Very true, a few of the more prominent members are well remembered and acknowledged but it would - maybe - be good to have a garden of remembrance types thread/section perhaps?

It’s a weird thing in our culture, death is the one certainly in life yet we speak little of it and often even less of those departed.

RIP Danny and all the others….

GGizmo · 7 Jan 2022 at 11:16

I didn't know him. But reading the story links 29 is no age. RIP.

randomshenans · 7 Jan 2022 at 11:32

Man it's so sobering really when you think of people who pass daily. We don't know most of them but when it's in this little community, it just shows how precious life is.

Thinking of you dude

hurfdurf · 7 Jan 2022 at 11:43

Scania said:
On talking to the staff here I’m far more aware of what happened now, so very needless.

What did happen?

Scania · 7 Jan 2022 at 20:30

hurfdurf said:
What did happen?

Basically he ploughed into an hgv low loader that was sat with its rear end across his carriageway, it had left the tool hire company and pulled across the dual carriageway and was waiting to turn right onto the opposite carriageway.

Our departed friend had come around the slight bend before this place at such a speed as to not be able to avoid hitting the trailer and removing anything above say 3feet above the ground, himself included.

40mph limit, even in a truck you have ample time to spot and avoid such an incident here - it’s happened to me subsequently since this at the very same spot - unfortunately this wasn’t the case for Danny and he paid the ultimate price.

RIP.

OpenToSuggestions · 7 Jan 2022 at 20:45

RIP DannyW.