Car Talk - Non S2000 General Motoring and Non S2000 Car Talk

Gumball death

Thread Tools
 
Old May 4, 2007 | 12:00 AM
  #1  
nickrg3's Avatar
Thread Starter
Registered User
 
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 7,395
Likes: 0
From: Tunbridge Wells
Default Gumball death

Seems that the British drivers then left the scene and got arrested at a border check. Gumball was stopped immediately.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/s...607494,00.html
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 12:03 AM
  #2  
Havas's Avatar
Registered User
 
Joined: Jan 2007
Posts: 954
Likes: 0
From: Rickmansworth
Default

Yeah by a Porche. All money and no Brains! I think the guy that died was in a Golf.
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 01:00 AM
  #3  
Bada Bing!'s Avatar
Banned
 
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 17,824
Likes: 0
From: West Coast
Default

Christ, that's hellish. It was bound to happen some time, those events tend to have absolutely zero thought for the residents of the areas these spoiled tasteless wankers pass through.
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 01:05 AM
  #4  
LTB's Avatar
LTB
Registered User
 
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 11,747
Likes: 1
From: South Coast
Default



It was inevitable really the way that they drive.

If it is proven that they were driving recklessly then both the Rally and the drivers of the Porsche could be in serious trouble.
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 01:06 AM
  #5  
Shiskine's Avatar
 
Joined: Jul 2004
Posts: 18,456
Likes: 5
From: Glasgow, Scotland
Default

I said in the other thread that these people are tossers and this just sums it up ...
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 02:44 AM
  #6  
echo66's Avatar
Registered User
 
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 4,594
Likes: 1
From: North West UK, Cheshire
Default

Can't really comment on the crash as we know nothing but if they were trying to flee the country then bang the wankers up for a long long time.
Accpet the consequences of your actions.

Ed
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 03:05 AM
  #7  
Neil.H's Avatar
Registered User
20 Year Member
 
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 9,065
Likes: 0
From: London
Default

Was only a matter of time - tragic that it was a member of public that died.
Reply

Trending Topics

Old May 4, 2007 | 03:13 AM
  #8  
lower's Avatar
20 Year Member
Liked
 
Joined: Mar 2004
Posts: 10,652
Likes: 17
From: Market Harborough, Leics.
Default

Not enough info in that article to condemm them yet though. Accidents do happen all the time and it won't necessarily be their fault. It says that they waited for the ambulance to collect the injured driver and then reported the accident to the police.
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 03:39 AM
  #9  
Nick Graves's Avatar
 
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 31,181
Likes: 58
From: Hertford
Default

WTF?

The guy died of a heart attack after an accident.

That hardly implicates the Porsche drivers of anything.

Now the assumptions may be perfectly true, but to jump to such conclusions at this stage slightly smacks of envy that they can afford the Gumball and you all can't.

That's how these 'Spill your Seed' and 'any movement = too fast' numpties starts off.
Reply
Old May 4, 2007 | 04:17 AM
  #10  
Lurking Lawyer's Avatar
Registered User
Gold Member (Premium)
 
Joined: May 2002
Posts: 25,255
Likes: 0
From: Cheshire
Default

Originally Posted by Nick Graves,May 4 2007, 12:39 PM
The guy died of a heart attack after an accident.

That hardly implicates the Porsche drivers of anything.
That rather depends what caused the heart attack, doesn't it?

Another report I read said that it was thought that the 911 had veered onto the wrong side of the road and hit the car carrying the two locals, and the guy then died from a heart attack suffered while en route to the hospital.

It doesn't seem very clear whether the 911 crew decided to make a run for it to the border with Albania, as originally seemed to be suggested, or they stuck around to report it and then carried on, only to be detained at the border.

Either way, the public road really isn't the place for the kind of antics that seem to be par for the course for the Gumball and similar events. It's surprising it's taken this long for there to be a fatality.
Reply



All times are GMT -8. The time now is 05:12 AM.