yet another reason why you should take it to the track
#76
After many years of driving fast cars too fast on public roads, I have wised up before something tragic happens to me or someone else. I realized that I have the same issues as any other addict, I can't get behind the wheel of a nearly 400 hp car and not speed excessively, although I never drive impaired. So I have dumped my street Porsche and got a pickup truck, which is really no fun to go fast in, for daily driving and have taken "save it for the track" advice to heart. Stories like this confirm the wisdom of that decision.
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I knew this a once, like the time I left a party when I was 19 and couldn't figure out how to start my Kawasaki GPZ1100, a bike I rebuilt from ground up. I pushed it 3 miles in the rain, stopped, curled up next to it and fell asleep under an I-74 overpass. I woke up at dawn, turn the petcock to on and fired it up. Last time I drank and tried to operate a motor vehicle. Luck has always been my friend.
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I knew this a once, like the time I left a party when I was 19 and couldn't figure out how to start my Kawasaki GPZ1100, a bike I rebuilt from ground up. I pushed it 3 miles in the rain, stopped, curled up next to it and fell asleep under an I-74 overpass. I woke up at dawn, turn the petcock to on and fired it up. Last time I drank and tried to operate a motor vehicle. Luck has always been my friend.
Some of us take the moral high ground having crawled all the way there. From 1976 to 1979 I lost 4 peers to drunks. 2 were the drunks 2 were hit by them. I figured I did not want to be in ether group. I see people doing stupid **** on the road all the time. Tripple digit speeds, face in a phone or both has suplanted "one for the road".
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NorCal DE cup at thill just two weeks away...
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The only thing that has bummed me out (though my bank account is happier) is that I lost access to my local race track as it permanently closed at the end of the 2011 season with only rumors of a replacement surfacing and those rumors are at least 2 or more years away from becoming a reality. But I did find a replacement and a mighty fine replacement it is. I am now racing Karts and to tell you the truth my Kart (a 2 stroke Rotax DD2) is even more fun to drive than my 993 was. My Kart is like a mini Formula car.
PS: Welcome back "A Wayne". We haven't seen you on here for the last few seasons. I was beginning to think something happened to you. But I see you are fine.
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IMHO,
This will probably go the way the Ryan Levin case went. (TT killed 2 British tourists in 2009 off the Ft lauderdale strip ). (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...eanfront-condo)
The police ended up placing Levin in the car based on cell phone towers.
I think it was about 2 years before a settlement, and basically his family paid off the British survivors families.
I doubt we will hear much for quite a while, until the SAO has a case...
This will probably go the way the Ryan Levin case went. (TT killed 2 British tourists in 2009 off the Ft lauderdale strip ). (http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/201...eanfront-condo)
The police ended up placing Levin in the car based on cell phone towers.
I think it was about 2 years before a settlement, and basically his family paid off the British survivors families.
I doubt we will hear much for quite a while, until the SAO has a case...
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I don't know but always feel that if you have a ton of money and or a huge umbrella policy this all goes away quietly. We may never know the outcome.
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To the driver of the "killa Ferrari". In New Jersey, leaving the scene of an accident is a FELONY! (Say Fel-o-neee, dirt bag) And gets you hard time EVEN IF YOU ARE NOT AT FAULT in the accident!!! Living just across the bridge from 'Filthadelfia' I see 'drivers' (using the term very loosely) texting, reading, making out, rolling up, doing makeup, looking everywhere but at the road ETC. I've found a nice piece of back road that's well paved, with a passing lane every few miles and very little traffic where I can wind out my 'Shark' a LITTLE, about 80mph, once and a while. Otherwise I drive my 928 euro in a very conservative manner because I consider it to be an un-replaceable car!! When I was learning to drive back in the '60s my dad told me-"Driving is probably the ONLY thing you'll ever do, where if you screw up, you can get killed or kill someone else. SO DON'T SCREW UP!!!
#89
Was thinking about this story when I saw that as of yesterday TX has closed this loophole:
SB 275
Hit-and-run fatality crashes will now carry the same penalty as intoxication manslaughter, up to 20 years in prison. Lawmakers noticed that drivers might leave the scene of the crime if they were drunk because it would mean a lesser charge.
Any updates on this story? I've searched the interwebs about once a week since I saw this thread start up, but not a peep since the driver kinda met with the popo...
SB 275
Hit-and-run fatality crashes will now carry the same penalty as intoxication manslaughter, up to 20 years in prison. Lawmakers noticed that drivers might leave the scene of the crime if they were drunk because it would mean a lesser charge.
Any updates on this story? I've searched the interwebs about once a week since I saw this thread start up, but not a peep since the driver kinda met with the popo...
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I'll be the first to admit that I've driven when I shouldn't but I still can't believe that ppl will not face the music.. particularly when you take a life..
This is a powerful short video..
I'll be the first to admit that I've driven when I shouldn't but I still can't believe that ppl will not face the music.. particularly when you take a life..
This is a powerful short video..