apparently this was originally posted by someone on dsmtalk.com......

just a sobering look at street racing.

"" --last night i was out with my cousin and some friends and we were eating outside of a fast food resaurant at like 1 in the morning. we finished eating so we took off. i pulled out first and then was followed by my cousin in an accord, and my friend in a sonoma. i civic si pulled up next to me as soon as we got on the road. we drove for only 10 seconds before the civic si threw some small revs at me. like an idiot....i feel for them. he turned left onto a bigger road and we followed. all this was on camera btw. i pulled up next to him and he downshifted up a hill and floored it. i matched him and took off. i pulled ahead of him, and only let off to go through an intersection with a few cars, but the light was green. after the light we took off again, exceeding speeds of 110 mph. the road started to go down hill with some right turn bends. we slowed down some, but not enough. we went around the first turn hard, and kept going, at the second and last bend before a long straight away, the road got a little bit bumpy and i lost control....i 360'd and caught enough of my rear view to see the civic flipping and rolling, sparking, hitting the side barrier, boucing all over the road. at that point i straightened out, locked them up and slammed into the curb head up into the center island. i blew my left front tire. i reversed down the island, pulled off to the right of the road, parked, and ran back the 500 feet to the civic. the car was completely totalled, the engine bay was on fire, the wheels were all bent in underneath the car, and the driver was ejected out of the car and his arm was wrapped tight as hell by the seat belt. he was bleeding like crazy from his shin, thats all i could tell b/c it was dark. his girlfriend was already out of the car and was screaming hysterically. i ran back to my car to get some wire cutters to cut the seat belt but it didn't work, so my cousing grabbed a box cutter from his car and cut the seat belt off. i pulled the guy up, rand back to my car to put my tools back. my cousin called the cops, i ran back to the civic to tell them help was on the way. the driver was completely out of it. both airbags opened, all windows except the back left windows were broken. the driver slammed his head into the windshield. he asked me to help him of the wall so i picked him up and layed him down. now i could tell he was bleeding from his face, head, and his shin. i got blood all over my clothes from his leg. i have never seen something bleed so bad. his jeans were completely soaked. when the cops, paramedics, and fire fighters showed up, they cut his jeans revealing a 6 inch long by 4 inch long gash on his shin, all the way to the bone...they actually had to pull that part of his flesh off. i ended up telling the cops what really happened, and the sergeant pulled me aside and told me himself that he wasn't gonna arrest me, nor was i gonna be arrested at any point, and it just makes it easier when someone tells the truth. he told me used to be a kid, had a fast car, blah blah blah. he actually did compliment my car though, saying i shouldn't have been racing the civc, as my car is a "real sports car" and the civic can't handle driving like that and some other small talk. all of that lasted for about 3 hours. my cousing followed me home and we watched the video. the video (were working on getting it on here) shows when the civic flipped. it actually blew up...literally...twice. just shows me reversing from off the center island. but hopefully, this will convince some of you guys not to street race. thought i'd never say it.

Update
hey guys...i appreciate those of you who are glad the other driver as well as myself are ok. i know racing was stupid...i remember my mom telling me when i was little, that sometime you have to hit your head really hard to realize theres a wall in front of you. i didn't hit my head really hard, but i hit it hard enough. street racing is stupid...in my opinion. i also appreciate the people who really stated what they felt...i know a lot of you guys think i'm an idiot. i probably let a bunch of people down...some of you guys on the boards, my family, my friends, co-workers. again...i appreciate all the responses to the posts...i don't think theres anything wrong with keeping eachother safe, and as long as we keep that in mind on all these posts, everything is A o.k. aside from that....i'm gonna go visit the guy in the hospital tomorrow hopefully...and i'm working on getting the video on here. for those of you who still are gonna street race, hopefully the video (the civic actually blew up) will change your mind. for the time being...i wrote a 5/26/02 (happened sunday night) on a piece of paper and put it on my tach to remind me.

ANOTHER UPDATE...
i got a hold of the hospital and they told me the kid was in the icu. i talked to his dad and he told me they're amputating his leg from 2 inches below his knee. thats the bad news...the good news was: the doctors told the kid, as well as his parents and the cops/paramedics that if i didn't pull over, didn't call the cops etc...he wouldn't have made it, for sure...he lost a lot of blood, and would've bled to death. so he thanked me for pulling over, getting him out of the seatbelt and all that stuff. he told me hes glad he gets to watch his son rehabilitate as opposed to seeing him in a casket. he thanked me for "saving his life." i still can't help but feel guilty...but we're meeting sometime this upcoming week. cool guy...wasn't mad at all. he made sure i knew i did what was morally right -- ""

 

Damn, that is scary as hell. Losing his leg... . Don't know what to say about that. He definetely shouldn't have been street racing, escpecially on a bumpy road, ESPECIALLY with a passenger (his girlfriend)!!! Wis, you gotta be careful when running...

 

So... i take it this is the video with the Civic that crosses the intersection out of control while messing around with the S4? ?

 

That video shows cars in a regular intersection though... and it just jumped the median and went against traffic. I don't think it's the same as to what he explained... Oh well... I could be wrong??

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by 4IGS2000
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Street racing is very addictive but very stupid. I remember when I came across a BPU Supra for the first time I was on a 45 mph road in the middle of the night with both lanes open. Before we knew it we were blasting at 120 mph through intersections. I didn't even realize what could have happened. I've tried to keep "street racing" to 1 or 2 gears in short bursts on the highway - even that's not safe but we do have sports cars. Stay away from traffic, turns, and make sure you have plenty of space - uh, I guess I shouls start going to a drag strip.