woman killed in rta with hired R8
Discussion
Very local to me this, and is a bad junction for accidents, but wonder what experience of fast cars is considered before someone can hire a R8?
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rallycross said:
agtlaw said:
Yes.Birmingham seems to have more than its fair share of this sort of thing.
1OS said:
Wasn't surprised that this happened in Birmingham tbh. I had the misfortune of living nearby for a few years for work and the place is like a third world country. Dirty, everyone drives like 
s and everything seems in a perpetual state of decline. RIP to those involved, had I not had the experience of Birmingham and its universal stness I'd consider not writing the R8 guy off as fast, but in this case...
What has the place got to do with the actual incident? ...what a load of bs and everything seems in a perpetual state of decline. RIP to those involved, had I not had the experience of Birmingham and its universal stness I'd consider not writing the R8 guy off as fast, but in this case...ks 
Six year sentance
Video of crash here released by west miss police, travelling over 70mph in a 30 ...utter cock socket for that but even more so for leaving the scene
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=...
Police statement here
We have released dramatic CCTV footage of a high speed crash, in which a woman lost her life, to show the consequences of speeding.
Saqib Hussain was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday for causing Noreen Ryan's death after the Audi R8 Spyder he was driving at 76mph crashed into the car Ms Ryan was travelling in, while in a thirty zone.
The 25-year-old was speeding along Shaftmoor Lane in Acocks Green at around 11.30pm on 26 August when he ploughed into the Ford Fiesta, in which Ms Ryan was the front seat passenger, as it pulled out of Reddings Lane.
Sadly, the impact on the Fiesta was so great that Ms Ryan received multiple injuries and despite the best efforts of the emergency services, she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Ms Ryan's sister Mary was the driver of the Fiesta and was trapped in her seat, suffering from serious injuries to her back and pelvis.
When officers arrived at the scene, the Audi was still there but nobody was with it. Witnesses recalled seeing two men leave the car and get inside a Mercedes, which arrived shortly after the crash, before driving off.
Clearly this was a serious collision and officers were also concerned about the welfare of the occupants of the Audi, so local hospitals were made aware of what had happened.
Less than half an hour after the crash, we got a call from Solihull Hospital. Hussain had gone there to drop off his passenger in the Audi, who had suffered a nasty facial injury in the collision. We immediately went to the hospital however, Hussain had already left and his friend maintained he had received his injuries in an assault.
At around 3am the next day, Hussain finally handed himself in at Stechford Police Station and was subsequently arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
He was later charged with the offence and also two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, causing death by driving a vehicle while uninsured and failing to stop at the scene of a collision.
Hussain of Alexander Road, Acocks Green, pleaded guilty to all the offences and was handed a six year prison sentence at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday.
Anyone who is tempted to put their foot down consider the consequences before doing so. Could you live with yourself if you killed someone and would your loved ones cope if you were sent to prison? It simply isn't worth the risk.
To find out more about the work of our Collision Investigation Unit and how traffic officers aim to keep people safe on our roads
Video of crash here released by west miss police, travelling over 70mph in a 30 ...utter cock socket for that but even more so for leaving the scene
http://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=...
Police statement here
We have released dramatic CCTV footage of a high speed crash, in which a woman lost her life, to show the consequences of speeding.
Saqib Hussain was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday for causing Noreen Ryan's death after the Audi R8 Spyder he was driving at 76mph crashed into the car Ms Ryan was travelling in, while in a thirty zone.
The 25-year-old was speeding along Shaftmoor Lane in Acocks Green at around 11.30pm on 26 August when he ploughed into the Ford Fiesta, in which Ms Ryan was the front seat passenger, as it pulled out of Reddings Lane.
Sadly, the impact on the Fiesta was so great that Ms Ryan received multiple injuries and despite the best efforts of the emergency services, she was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.
Ms Ryan's sister Mary was the driver of the Fiesta and was trapped in her seat, suffering from serious injuries to her back and pelvis.
When officers arrived at the scene, the Audi was still there but nobody was with it. Witnesses recalled seeing two men leave the car and get inside a Mercedes, which arrived shortly after the crash, before driving off.
Clearly this was a serious collision and officers were also concerned about the welfare of the occupants of the Audi, so local hospitals were made aware of what had happened.
Less than half an hour after the crash, we got a call from Solihull Hospital. Hussain had gone there to drop off his passenger in the Audi, who had suffered a nasty facial injury in the collision. We immediately went to the hospital however, Hussain had already left and his friend maintained he had received his injuries in an assault.
At around 3am the next day, Hussain finally handed himself in at Stechford Police Station and was subsequently arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.
He was later charged with the offence and also two counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving, causing death by driving a vehicle while uninsured and failing to stop at the scene of a collision.
Hussain of Alexander Road, Acocks Green, pleaded guilty to all the offences and was handed a six year prison sentence at Birmingham Crown Court yesterday.
Anyone who is tempted to put their foot down consider the consequences before doing so. Could you live with yourself if you killed someone and would your loved ones cope if you were sent to prison? It simply isn't worth the risk.
To find out more about the work of our Collision Investigation Unit and how traffic officers aim to keep people safe on our roads
Edited by rigga on Tuesday 16th September 16:20
KFC said:
Wasn't the biker doing 97 in a 60 or a 70 zone?
The Audi here was going a far higher % over the limit. At some point the speeder is just going too fast for the other driver to realistically be expected to see whats coming.
To add to this, I use this junction everyday to and from work, from where the fiesta emerges looking left where the R8 is speeding from, there is a brow of a hill about 50 metres away, this would obscure the approaching Audi travelling at speed from the view of the fiesta driver, once over this brow and travelling at over twice the speed limit there was not much the fiesta driver could do to avoid the collision, its completely down to the speeder.The Audi here was going a far higher % over the limit. At some point the speeder is just going too fast for the other driver to realistically be expected to see whats coming.
KFC said:
Sure, dheads are always going to drive like dheads. But letting them get behind the wheel of a powerful sports car that they've hired for a day just seems to be vastly increasing the risk of something nasty happening.
Why not have some sort of restrictions on what cars people can drive? No hiring anything like this until you've held a driving license for 10 years. Maybe let people own them after they've had one for 5 years (I'm assuming people will be more careful with their own rather than a 24 hour hire). I'd ban people from driving with more than 1 passenger in the first year after passing their test. And I'd probably ban them from driving late at night unless they were going to/from work. And put restrictions on power/speed etc until they've had their license a few years.
But the Audi in question had restrictions already on it for driver's who could rent it, min age 28, the guy driving was 24 at the time and it wasn't him who hired it out, but was still driving.heads are always going to drive like dheads. But letting them get behind the wheel of a powerful sports car that they've hired for a day just seems to be vastly increasing the risk of something nasty happening. Why not have some sort of restrictions on what cars people can drive? No hiring anything like this until you've held a driving license for 10 years. Maybe let people own them after they've had one for 5 years (I'm assuming people will be more careful with their own rather than a 24 hour hire). I'd ban people from driving with more than 1 passenger in the first year after passing their test. And I'd probably ban them from driving late at night unless they were going to/from work. And put restrictions on power/speed etc until they've had their license a few years.
You can't easily limit those who get behind the wheel, look at those who get repeated bans for drink driving no insurance etc etc and who still get behind the wheel, route cause is the punishment they receive when caught is laughable and no deterrent, the six year's for causing a death in this case, and likely out much earlier is a case in point.
KFC said:
I'm not talking about hire company rules. I'm talking about actual new laws.
But you also saidKFC said:
Why not have some sort of restrictions on what cars people can drive? No hiring anything like this until you've held a driving license for 10 years.
So mixed messages ...and a law abiding 18 year old probably wouldn't be driving like a tard regardless if it was a focus rs Audi r8 or a micra, you still can't stop idiot's whether you try to legislate them off the road or not, they simply don't care about rules. Gassing Station | Speed, Plod & the Law | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff