13yr old killed in F50
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A child dying in a car crash will nearly always make local news
A child dying in a car crash where the car is expensive or the driver/child is well-known will nearly always make the national news.
Everyone's life has the same value, but the moment it is the second crash it becomes a rarer incident and therefore of interest to people outside the local area.
A child dying in a car crash where the car is expensive or the driver/child is well-known will nearly always make the national news.
Everyone's life has the same value, but the moment it is the second crash it becomes a rarer incident and therefore of interest to people outside the local area.
Without wanting to give too much away, this happened on a private access road which leads to some units where cars like this are transported, stored, maintained and detailed. It could be connected to that or they could have been to the Newlyns Farm Shop, which is also at the end of the road.
It's single track for a few hundred yards with a couple of passing places and is well maintained, not what you'd call a 'farm track'. If nobody is coming towards you on that road, I can see how you might be tempted to boot a car like that, as it would appear to be a safe place to do so. At the end of the track where the fence is damaged, there's a pronounced dip in the road and if you drove over that at speed, the car could easily lose traction or even get airborne.
Whatever happened, it's very tragic indeed for the family of the child.
It's single track for a few hundred yards with a couple of passing places and is well maintained, not what you'd call a 'farm track'. If nobody is coming towards you on that road, I can see how you might be tempted to boot a car like that, as it would appear to be a safe place to do so. At the end of the track where the fence is damaged, there's a pronounced dip in the road and if you drove over that at speed, the car could easily lose traction or even get airborne.
Whatever happened, it's very tragic indeed for the family of the child.
Edited by FurtiveFreddy on Tuesday 23 August 13:45
FurtiveFreddy said:
Without wanting to give too much away, this happened on a private access road which leads to some units where cars like this are transported, stored, maintained and detailed. It could be connected to that or they could have been to the Newlyns Farm Shop, which is also at the end of the road.
It's single track for a few hundred yards with a couple of passing places and is well maintained, not what you'd call a 'farm track'. If nobody is coming towards you on that road, I can see how you might be tempted to boot a car like that, as it would appear to be a safe place to do so. At the end of the track where the fence is damaged, there's a pronounced dip in the road and if you drove over that at speed, the car could easily lose traction or even get airborne.
Whatever happened, it's very tragic indeed for the family of the child.
This is far more similar to what the BBC were saying.It's single track for a few hundred yards with a couple of passing places and is well maintained, not what you'd call a 'farm track'. If nobody is coming towards you on that road, I can see how you might be tempted to boot a car like that, as it would appear to be a safe place to do so. At the end of the track where the fence is damaged, there's a pronounced dip in the road and if you drove over that at speed, the car could easily lose traction or even get airborne.
Whatever happened, it's very tragic indeed for the family of the child.
Edited by FurtiveFreddy on Tuesday 23 August 13:45
As someone mentioned earlier in this post I have a feeling it was the guy behind Tax The Rich.
The pictures of the farm are the same as shots in his video's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
The pictures of the farm are the same as shots in his video's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
very sad crash, but also a very odd place. As mentioned it is a farm access track to a farm shop that would have been closed at the time (9pm). Also dead straight track apart from a very tight bend near the end where the crash looks to have happened. I can't see how they can have been going at much speed at that point, so I wonder if they even had their seatbelts on.
Overall very sad, and as a father I can't imagine what it must be like to loose your son in this sort (or any) of way.
Overall very sad, and as a father I can't imagine what it must be like to loose your son in this sort (or any) of way.
FurtiveFreddy said:
Without wanting to give too much away, this happened on a private access road which leads to some units where cars like this are transported, stored, maintained and detailed. It could be connected to that or they could have been to the Newlyns Farm Shop, which is also at the end of the road.
It's single track for a few hundred yards with a couple of passing places and is well maintained, not what you'd call a 'farm track'. If nobody is coming towards you on that road, I can see how you might be tempted to boot a car like that, as it would appear to be a safe place to do so. At the end of the track where the fence is damaged, there's a pronounced dip in the road and if you drove over that at speed, the car could easily lose traction or even get airborne.
Whatever happened, it's very tragic indeed for the family of the child.
If it's like similar farm roads where I grew up (darkest Norfolk), the surface is often very dusty, so not as much grip as you would expect on a public road with a higher volume of traffic.It's single track for a few hundred yards with a couple of passing places and is well maintained, not what you'd call a 'farm track'. If nobody is coming towards you on that road, I can see how you might be tempted to boot a car like that, as it would appear to be a safe place to do so. At the end of the track where the fence is damaged, there's a pronounced dip in the road and if you drove over that at speed, the car could easily lose traction or even get airborne.
Whatever happened, it's very tragic indeed for the family of the child.
Edited by FurtiveFreddy on Tuesday 23 August 13:45
ELUSIVEJIM said:
As someone mentioned earlier in this post I have a feeling it was the guy behind Tax The Rich.
The pictures of the farm are the same as shots in his video's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
No, you missed my post from earlier then, they use the farms and private roads around the Heveningham Hall estate in Suffolk. The curved stables at the end of your video is the stable block next to the hall, the farm they drive out of is New House Home Farm. You can also tell it's parkland, not fields from 2mins in.The pictures of the farm are the same as shots in his video's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
hantsxlg said:
very sad crash, but also a very odd place. As mentioned it is a farm access track to a farm shop that would have been closed at the time (9pm). Also dead straight track apart from a very tight bend near the end where the crash looks to have happened. I can't see how they can have been going at much speed at that point, so I wonder if they even had their seatbelts on.
Yes the shop would've closed at 6pm so probably not connected. By the look of the photos the car was travelling away from the shop and had passed over the bridge when it lost control, so a straight road, but in an F50 it's very possible whoever was driving lost control just after the bridge where it hits the dip I mentioned.
Nothing to do with TaxTheRich at all.
Soov535 said:
So, same farm, and it's not easy to see how this could happen judging by the driving here, and the idiocy at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
It's not the same farm, as we keep saying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
FurtiveFreddy said:
Soov535 said:
So, same farm, and it's not easy to see how this could happen judging by the driving here, and the idiocy at the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
It's not the same farm, as we keep saying. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PQ4VGMDMQU
AndStilliRise said:
Very sad. You would have thought the driver of such a car would know how to handle it.
Just because I can afford to buy a 911 turbo, doesn't make me Walter Röhrl.Davey S2 said:
Tragic to think that this would have been such a thrill for any 13 year old petrol head and for it to end like this.
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