What's Wrong With This Picture: Truer Words May Never Be Spoken Edition
Published: September 21st, 2009
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From wreckedexotics.com:
This Mercedes SLR was purchased only a day before this accident. The 23 year old son of the owner borrowed the car and managed to crash it into 3 other cars.
Details are a bit sketchy, but reports say he had a young child in the passenger seat who was slightly injured. The driver left the scene of the accident and reported back 17 hours later. He said he had to leave the scene to take the child to the hospital.
The SLR was allegedly racing a Ferrari 599 GTB at the time of the accident. The car cost about $700,000.
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A friend of mine bought for his son (for his first car) a lowly, extremely used, M-B 190 diesel. I said: "WTF would make you buy a car like that?" He said: "Think about it..."
These sorts of Baruth behaviours have the community asking "what should we do"? Consequently, someone decides that more restrictions should be placed on the MANY because of the actions of the irresponsible FEW. Think about it. Every time one of these clowns takes a risk on the very much SHARED road space, there is further incentive to ruin it for those of us just minding our own business. FFS, keep it on the track!
"Think about it. Every time one of these clowns takes a risk on the very much SHARED road space, there is further incentive to ruin it for those of us just minding our own business." Shared space is the crux of the issue. I don't care if someone hurts themselves by being irresponsible. I care a lot when they hurt someone who just had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Rules are needed not so much to protect us from ourselves as they are to protect us from the other guy.
wsn : I’m curious. What is the average age of a TTAC reader? Fairly young, perhaps? —————————————- Probably, if you look at all the Camry bashing. I am over 60 and will happily bash your Camry. Don't you know Camry lovers have defective genes and should be isolated from the rest of society?