Drink + Drive + 105mph + Phone = Death.

[Wafflesmk2]

Im interested to see the PH response.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101429/Bi...

[sherman]

Natural Selection prevails yet again.

[FloppyRaccoon]

Driving that fast twice the limit and taking pictures with his phone?

I'm just glad the fool was on his own and the roads were quiet. Thankfully he wasn't a promising young footballer, we've lost too many of them

[Darkk]

Corsa @ 105mph?

Serious downhill there....

[0a]

Sympathy for his parents.

I suspect few on here have not done 105mph+, or used their phone while driving.

He had a crash when drunk.

I couldn't see anything suggesting he killed anyone else so, well, that's life.

[deviant]

Wafflesmk2 said:

Im interested to see the PH response.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2101429/Bi...

Responses will be fairly predictable I would think.

FWIW I am glad nobody else was killed and I think it tragic that the chap made such a terrible decision that night.

Looking at the car it looks like it is not that badly damaged so I wonder how he managed to get life ending injuries. The seat looks very reclined but that could be from the rescue....maybe he just hit his head on something.

[Brite spark]

dailymail said:

Mr Cooney, A former failsworth pupil, had survived the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami while holidaying on the island of ko Phi Phi in Thailand.

Tributes flooded in for ' amazing Billy' after the crash

Tsunami and tributes flooding in should get the mail readers boiling their piss

[XVar]

0a said:

I suspect few on here have not done 105mph+, or used their phone while driving.

He had a crash when drunk.

While that's true, and driving fast on it's own isn't necessarily dangerous, I imagine there aren't many PHers who have done all 3 of those things at the same time. Driving drunk on it's own is bad enough, when you factor that speed and being on the phone there aren't many ways it's going to end. As above sympathy with the parents, but the guy was a fking idiot.

[Petrolhead_Rich]

Driving while drunk

Driving at speed on an empty road and taking pictures of your speedo

Sad to say but he created a series of events that were highly likely to cause himself injury or death, hopefully another young idiot will learn from this before doing the same!

[jbi]

Another teenager in a little citycar deathtrap, dead.

A shame... when will they learn?

[tomsugden]

A possible contender for this year's Darwin awards.

[Megaflow]

Stupid Boy.

I'm no saint. I speed from time to time, certainly less than I used to, I have used a phone when driving before it became illegal and I am fairly sure I have driven into work the morning after when I probably shouldn't have done. However, you would have to be a prize cocksocket to combine all three...

I note he crashed on a motorway'd A road, one therefore assumes that the roundabout was fairly substantial and well sign posted, yet he still managed to miss it... or not in this case.

[GreatGranny]

I just see it as a waste of a young person's life.

He was just being an idiot and paid an awful price for it.

[redtwin]

Brite spark said:

dailymail said:

Mr Cooney, A former failsworth pupil, had survived the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami while holidaying on the island of ko Phi Phi in Thailand.

Tributes flooded in for ' amazing Billy' after the crash

Tsunami and tributes flooding in should get the mail readers boiling their piss

Daily Mail said:

control of the car close to a slip road before flipping 180 degrees...

Mr Cooney’s sister, Vanessa, said: 'We miss him, it’s turned our world upside down.

DM journo is on a roll.

[Jabbah]

XVar said:

0a said:

I suspect few on here have not done 105mph+, or used their phone while driving.

He had a crash when drunk.

While that's true, and driving fast on it's own isn't necessarily dangerous, I imagine there aren't many PHers who have done all 3 of those things at the same time. Driving drunk on it's own is bad enough, when you factor that speed and being on the phone there aren't many ways it's going to end. As above sympathy with the parents, but the guy was a fking idiot.

There's also no proof that the crash was caused or happened whilst he was doing all those things together. The picture was taken minutes before the accident. All that can be concluded is that he had been driving too fast previously to the accident and later lost control at an unknown speed whilst being twice over the limit. The 105mph could even have been on a motorway for all we know.

[hornetrider]

Promising footballer removed from the gene pool. Oh well.

[Mr2Mike]

jbi said:

Another teenager in a little citycar deathtrap, dead.

Utter bks, his death was caused by his own incredible stupidity. The "deathtrap citycar" can not take the blame for his irresponsible actions.

[snorkel sucker]

It's a shame the wave of relief he must have felt after surviving the tsunami didn't serve to remind him how precious his life was before he took to the car that night.

[Chr1sch]

Having recently become a dad I find this immensely sad but equally frustrating, I can forgive the phone thing to an extent but driving at twice the limit is unforgivable.....

[Buster73]

If he did not die on that night. It would have been a question of time unfortunately .