Sad news

[Christopher Schroeter]

Friends killed in car crash horror (From The Northern Echo)

 

One of the young lads, Josh, had just joined our TA unit and had also been accepted into the Regular Army. A promising bright future snuffed out.

My thoughts are with their families and friends. Very sad times.

[Steve Bullman]

Sorry to hear that Christopher

[Rob D]

Very sad news - sorry to hear that.

[Christopher Schroeter]

Nothing we can do about it now. Happens all too often. Young lads in fast cars who don't know how to drive. A lad I went through school with died when we were 17. Still sickens me now!

[mendiplogs]

HI very sad news sorry to hear that

[will.morris]

Nothing we can do about it now. Happens all too often. Young lads in fast cars who don't know how to drive. A lad I went through school with died when we were 17. Still sickens me now!

 

I can relate to that on a personal level because my close family friend Lauren was killed by a 20yr old lad driving like a _____ in a scooby back in December 2006, she was 17 herself at the time. Its tragic for anyone to lose their life in such a way but its the damage it does to the family that has been horrific to see over the past 5ish years.

 

It is an issue that the country fails to deal with in my opinion, the only tactic seems to be to raise insurance for youngsters but that simply isn't enough.

 

We have a system with motorbikes that you are restricted to a certain engine displacement/power until you are over a certain age or have served the qualifying period, I don't understand why it is not the same with cars which are far more likely to injure/kill other people.

 

Very sorry to hear it mate.

[WorcsWuss]

I can relate to that on a personal level because my close family friend Lauren was killed by a 20yr old lad driving like a _____ in a scooby back in December 2006, she was 17 herself at the time. Its tragic for anyone to lose their life in such a way but its the damage it does to the family that has been horrific to see over the past 5ish years.

 

It is an issue that the country fails to deal with in my opinion, the only tactic seems to be to raise insurance for youngsters but that simply isn't enough.

 

We have a system with motorbikes that you are restricted to a certain engine displacement/power until you are over a certain age or have served the qualifying period, I don't understand why it is not the same with cars which are far more likely to injure/kill other people.

 

Very sorry to hear it mate.

 

It's always happened Will. Restrictions won't stop human error.... I've had friends killed in 1 litre engined cars in broad daylight. Accidents happen, but when we're young most of us think we're invincible, and thought for the consequences comes too late.

Insurance for young people is already ridiculously high, I think pricing young kids off the road isn't the answer, besides it's more often those for whom money is no object who have the accidents anyway, in fast cars Daddy pays for. Making it so expensive to drive that young kids, who leave school and want to take apprecticeships for instance, are unable to get to work won't help anything in my view....

Death on the roads is a sad fact of life but one we'll never completely eradicate.

My thoughts are with the lads' families and I just pray this never happens to any of my kids....

[Matthew Storrs]

its sad, i agree will they should do more but i don't really see what they can do TBH. raising insurance for youngsters will put a few off but also serves to punish the more responsible younger drivers which is unfair. I think in general they should be more strict with speeding. if you speeding over 10 mph over the limit take away their license for a few years- there are too many drivers on the road anyway so to lose the iresponsible ones through bans would only be a good thing. And its not just youngsters who can be wreckless on the roads.

[Rich2484]

It's a sad loss when this happens to young drivers. It says at the bottom a 40 odd year old was arrested?

 

There was another on the radio with two small children dying. Feel sorry for the drivers, don't think I could live with that on my conscious.

[Christopher Schroeter]

The 40 year old was part of another incident when a child was knocked off his bike with serious injuries.