"powerful sports car"

[Mr E]

This sort of thing gets my hackles up.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/3618504.stm

Forget the case for a second. Forget the fact that the accused may or may not have been driving like a tit.

Forget the speed. 80 odd mph might have been ok for that bit of road. It also might have been way, way too much.

What's annoyed me is the focus on the fact that he was driving a "powerful sports car".

So? If anything, that excuses the speed a little, as a 3000GTO has more ability to round a corner at 80mph than a 10 year old family saloon at 60mph.

Grrrrr.

[forever_driving]

Mr E said:

What's annoyed me is the focus on the fact that he was driving a "powerful sports car".

If you read it again, you see that the court heard the collison was caused the extremely powerful sports car!

[Mr E]

forever_driving said:

If you read it again, you see that the court heard the collison was caused the extremely powerful sports car!

Yeah, but I can't spell extremely.....

ops:

[towman]

Mr E said:

.................. as a 3000GTO has more ability to round a corner at 80mph ....................... Grrrrr.

Errrrrr....obviously not.

I do agree with the rest of the post though.

[Mr E]

towman said:

Mr E said: .................. as a 3000GTO has more ability to round a corner at 80mph ....................... Grrrrr. Errrrrr....obviously not.

Could be pilot error. Could also be that 80mph was waaaay too fast for that corner (also pilot error). could be any number of things.

The point is that if a GTO didn't make it round at 80mph, then 98% of road cars wouldn't have either. The car he was driving is irrelevant, and the prosecution is simply using it to try to convince the beak that the guy is a nutter. He might be, but you can be an idiot in a 2CV.

[towman]

Mr E said:

but you can be an idiot in a 2CV.

[tom cruise mode} And you can be my wing man any day!!

[james_j]

I just don't see what "powerful sports car" has to do with the crash.

Typical pathetic little twit of a journalist grabbing an opportunity to be sensationalist.

The very same driver would probably have been driving at the same speed if driving another car and would of course have the same ability (or lack of). In fact, in a lesser car, the driver may well have crashed many times before.

[forever_driving]

[/tom cruise mode]

Sorry, just had to tidy the thread up. We don't want everyone talking like him

[Mr E]

Gazboy said:

I hate this sensationalism. It happened the other day when some dumb in a 2.0 MR2 slaughtered that nipper in Birmingham, the main crux was " The powerful sports car favoured by boy racers" odd, as it was the 110bhp OHC model, and is basicaly a corrola with a dress on. (it has zip to do with the other models except some body panels and main chassis spine).

But hey, it sells papers.
Would it have made print of an old lady in a Focus had gone off at the same point?