Another young driver crash,sad story, Hamble, Hampshire

[TwigtheWonderkid]

DoubleD said:

It would be interesting to see if a modern C1 would be better than an old heavy american car. I think it probably would, but a bigger modern car would be even better.

I'd like to see new C1 v 59 Chevvy. Sure, the C1 would be pushed back further, but driver survival probability, I still think the C1 would come out ahead.

[Four Litre]

dandarez said:

Young, old, or in between. I used to drive a car the height lower than a bus tyre. I did 100,000 miles in it. I can't recall feeling worried about being behind the wheel in it. Ever. And in all weather. Heavy rain. Snow. High winds, you name it.

Today? fk me, I wouldn't even entertain the thought of doing so regularly, if at all!

The roads today may be said to be safer (how the fk can a road be safe or dangerous?) but the driving standards have fallen to below appalling. I see more chances taken today than ever before. The numbers who don't seem to know even simple stuff like right of way on a roundabout seems to be growing daily. I was overtaken while doing 33 mph in a 30 by someone yesterday, must have been doing 60. Why do they take chances like this?
Are they all on something?
Look at driver's faces next time you're out and about on the roads.

Or is the answer as simple as this?
NO fkING TRAFFIC POLICE TO BE SEEN!

And...
they know it, that's why they 'chance it'.

Certainly doesn't help the situation. I passed my test when I was 17 years old along with a number of friends (nearly 30 years ago) and used to drive like complete s everywhere we went. Literally meeting up and racing everywhere like utter bell ends. The roads were a lot quieter back than and it was before speed humps were invented but looking back its amazing we are all still alive. The reason for this was that we had no idea of the consequences and at 17 you believe you are immortal and it wont happen to you.

By the luck of god nobody was killed however a friend only has one eye working due to a huge crash and indirectly a friend lost his ex girlfriend who got in a car with an equal dhead who crashed on a dual carriageway down the road from her parents house killing most of them.

Looking back 17 is way to young for a lot of people to be driving. I for one look back on my younger years driving and can only confess to being a complete dick behind the wheel and having no clue of what I was doing. I now have kids of my own, one being a teenage daughter and would pay for her to avoid getting in the car with a young male driver (based on my own behavior at the same age).

Strangely the friends who had the worst accidents were nearly always in big cars (RWD) that were harder to control at the same speeds of the smaller ones.