Quad bike crash four dead

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Seems like a pretty horrendous accident. Crash occurred just after midnight, seems an odd time to be out on a quad if you ask me.

Four people on the bike as well apparently all of whom died, didn't know they made them with that capacity.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3250871/Tw...

Sympathies to those involved.

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Got any links to those other articles Tre?

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DrTre said:

Like I say, I'm putting two and two together (eye witness report saying they could hear racing up and down) and may well be coming up with five.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-3437323...

Tragic, regardless of where the may or may not blame lie.

Cheers. Police asking for sightings of an unregistered quad bike. Oh dear.

Tragic that they were so young, 16 year old girl among the dead. I hope my daughter doesn't get involved in anything like this when she gets to that age

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doogz said:

One riding. One immediately behind. One sitting on the front rack, one sitting backwards on the back rack with their legs dangling off the back.

When you've been down in the field for hours, mixing concrete by hand in a rubble bucket, and digging holes, and concreting in gate posts, and it's 300m back uphill to the house, in your wellies in the wet mud, everyone is getting on the bike!

4 people, and a trailer with quarter of a tonne of building supplies on the back, my little quad used to work hard!

Which is fine down the farm. On a NSL bit of road after midnight - not so much.

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doogz said:

hornetrider said:

Which is fine down the farm. On a NSL bit of road after midnight - not so much.

Absolutely.

Was just answering the question.

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nigelpugh7 said:

Looking at the socco pictures, which are heartbreaking in the least we can see that there was extreme trauma to the teenagers, and full limb dismemberment too., I am sure the officers attending the scene would be devastating to see such extreme fatalities of such young people.

Are you involved in the incident then? Should you be disclosing that level of information?

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Wacky Racer said:

This. Great idea for a farmer.

Can't see the point of them on the road, USUALLY ridden by anti-social types in my experience.

I very rarely see them on the road but if I do they're usually farmer types bimbling around the lanes here.

The one exception was a couple of months ago I saw some dude piling down the M4 on one at about 70. I nearly fell off my driving seat.