Drivers who speed

[Lise]

What the frack is wrong with these a**holes who drives like crazy on the street??? Man, it's not enough that you speed but to mow down these children on a sidewalk of all places. Makes my blood boil to know that there are reckless drivers out there who speed like crazy. WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING, you idiots!

  Excuse the ranting but I just see red when I see things like this happening on our streets.

   [H2]Car mows down 4 kids after East Van crash[/H2] [H4]Injuries serious, not life-threatening[/H4] [H4][FONT size=1]Jonathan Fowlie and Darah Hansen, Vancouver Sun[/FONT][/H4]

 There was the sound of a loud horn, the thud of impact and then -- horror.

 After a blue Honda Civic was in a collision with an SUV in east Vancouver Friday afternoon it careered onto a sidewalk where it hit three young children and a teenager.

 The children -- [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffbf"]one of whom was being pushed in a stroller [/FONT]and appeared to be only two years old -- were dragged into the playground of a nearby school when the car rammed through one fence and came to rest against a second.

 School officials say two of the children were students at nearby Grandview elementary and were walking home when they were hit. Witnesses believe both of the children were boys.

 [FONT size=1]Read more: [/FONT][A href="http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6ea2347d-b97b-42f5-a05b-38caa6f90c6a"][FONT size=1]http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=6ea2347d-b97b-42f5-a05b-38caa6f90c6a[/FONT][/A]

[kingy]

as far as i know, this was an complete accident. there was no excessive speed involved. it was just a matter of one suv hitting a smaller honda and the honda plowed into the children. i think the suv ran a stop sign.

[Sportsdude]

  Yeah I know, in the news down here some mother tried to out run a train killed her and her two kids. I don't get why people think they can out run a train. Train always wins.

Then I was on IMDB on Michael Richards forum and some idiot posted a link to a girl who had an accident in Southern California. Some 18 year old girl in a Porsche she was going 100mph and hit a toll booth.  Stupid me had to click on the link and it showed pictures of her body and crash scene.  Never should have done that, clicking on the link wasn't the best idea.  Lets just say the funeral was a closed casket.

But I haven't even thought about driving fast since then. Actually I haven't thought about driving fast in a while. Its stupid.
     

[Russ yes!]

I think your right kingy, I remember something about that early. The news were showing the place where it happened and then interviewing some guy that was talking about the stop sign and the lack of view from some trees or something so it was a blind corner. It showed the car off the road with tracks through a fence if I remember.

[Russ yes!]

I saw that porsche crash too SD, I was thinking about posting a link to it on here.. until I saw the pictures of the guts of her head and such.. and the blood all over the concrete. She was completely blottoed though, and the dad had called the police on her cause he was scared abou ther.

[Sportsdude]

Ah so I wasn't the only one to see it.  Yeah her head looked like a smashed pumpkin and a pizza with the toppings ripped off. *shivers*  

[Lise]

Shoot. You're right, kingy. Sorry about that. I misunderstood.  ARGH!!*rubbing eyes*

  Speed still kill.

  Our whole damn road system needs change.

[Sportsdude]

Yup I'd agree with you but we're not at the stage yet of having cars being driven on auto pilot through GPS although my cousins tractor runs on GPS all he has to do is turn the tractor at the end of a row on the field and the tractor does the rest.  

[kingy]

self driving cars are almost here. lexus has a car that can parallel park itself.

  in two years...

  [A href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/27/gm-will-launch-self-driving-car-in-2008/"]http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/27/gm-will-launch-self-driving-car-in-2008/[/A]

[Sportsdude]

If my cousins John Deere can drive itself car companies can do the same.  

[Lise]

kingy wrote:
self driving cars are almost here. lexus has a car that can parallel park itself.



in two years...



[A href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/27/gm-will-launch-self-driving-car-in-2008/"]http://www.engadget.com/2005/08/27/gm-will-launch-self-driving-car-in-2008/[/A]

  HEAVENS NO!!! Are you serious?? That's like my dream car. I can't parallel park for the life of me. Right. I'm putting this one up on my list for Santa to get me when it becomes available.
 

[kingy]

the lexus is already out on the market.

  here is a video of it in action

  [A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkEu-PdVlK0"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkEu-PdVlK0[/A]

[Sportsdude]

Got 100k laying around Lise because thats how much they cost just looked it up on lexus.ca they start at 98k  

[Russ]

98k us or canuck?

  EDIT: nm SD I must be on drugs here, I just noticed you put lexus.ca

[Sportsdude]

98,000 loonies

Most of the people on here are Canadians so it makes sense to put on here what the prices are in Canada instead of US prices.