Double Fatality Riverside Drive

[jmoore]

Im speechless as to how this happened, and how little of the car is left.

Two men, 20 and 19, die in high-speed Riverside Drive fireball | Perth Now

TWO young men have died in a horrific fiery high-speed traffic crash on Riverside Drive, just east of the city early today.

The pair were travelling east in their vehicle, believed to be a VE Holden Commodore, about 1am when it left the road and slammed into a large palm tree in the centre median strip and caught fire.

The car was split in two lengthwise on impact and parts of it were strewn along the road.

Police have identified the the driver as a 20-year-old from Muresk Agricultural College and the passenger as a 19year-old from nearby Northam, 97km east of Perth.

The driver was incinerated in his seat while the passenger was thrown from the car and died at the scene.

[Maxo]

holy shit.


(awaits comments about the lifesaving fixed camera)

[Desmo]

Holy shit!

[michael]

^^^ thats EXACTLY what i just said..... seriously.. um wow.

[potato]

more like a double suicide

[Commander Keen]

203 comments already.. Holy shit there's a lot of hate on Perthnow.

[Seb]

holy shit.


(awaits comments about the lifesaving fixed camera)

Fuck!

It looks like a cardboard cut out that's blown over.

[bee-jay]

thats some fucked up shit right there

[firewrench]

Wow, that had be some outrageously fast collision. RIP young men.

[GreenMeanie]

Shit! Motorcycles must be better build than those pieces of shit.

[filbert]

if there was a speed camera there it never would have happened.

[GreenMeanie]

It seems Palm trees may be the answer. Replace fixed cameras and other speed detection devices with Palm trees. YES!

[speed3]

Jesus, cut the bloody thing in half! And the tree has got some serious lean on it. How hard would the hit have to be to do that?

[Max Power]

Holy shit!

[Crashlington]

Geesus. Keep safe out there people and keep under 200kph when on riverside drive.

[filbert]

Jesus, cut the bloody thing in half! And the tree has got some serious lean on it. How hard would the hit have to be to do that?

it also has a bit to do with the new hardened steels holden are using, they crack and shatter rather than crumpling, some might remember back a few years to the first accidents involving these cars where they found the "jaws of life" used for cutting pillars and door frames for extraction were next to useless.

generally they would cut the pillars and fold the roof back using hydraulic powered equipment, much harder to do with a hardened steel.

[Rat750]

That's one hell of an impact.

[RRossi]

wow that is just sad,

what a waste and to being doing it in what looks to be a bog stock VE Commodore??


What plesure would they have goton from this? <Shakes Head>


must have been under the influence of somthing, no one in there sain mind would do that, especialy in a floaty Commodore?


RR

[Daise]

Holy shit!

[milesiles]

Hardcore.