Your thoughts on street racing

[trekkor]

Yeah, not a real good idea...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/02/16/national/a043247S76.DTL





KT

[vash]

wow! two (ok, maybe three) points:

technically, it wasnt the street racing that killed the people. it was WATCHING street racing, that killed the people.

i am surprised there were older people there. a 60 year old was there???!!!

and finally, i learned in college that it is quite easy for forensic to determine if a headlight was on, before it it broken.

damn shame, if you ask me.

[austin552]

[911Rob]

Where I grew up on Vancouver Island, street racing was actually 'legal'.
Yup, we had this old piece of highway near Courtney that we used.
We also did alot of it illegally at a place called 2nd bridge in Port Alberni.

I can see how its become so frowned on, just like drinking and driving and speeding; more things that we did when I was a kid. These things get out of hand, people get stupid and then killed. When the lives of the innocent are put at risk, its time to say quits.

[Hugh R]

I've gone on a few of the Malibu runs here in SoCal and I probably won't again. They are going really, really fast on narrow roads where coming up real quick on 25 or 50 bicyclists is common. I just don't see it.

[Racerbvd]

Man, my old Rabbit VW Diesel truck was so fast, other cars depreciated a full year before It hit 60mph and my cloths went out of style

[Komenda Fan]

That's what the racetrack is for.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Darwinism.

A little chlorine in the gene pool from time to time is probably a good thing.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I've gone on a few of the Malibu runs here in SoCal and I probably won't again. They are going really, really fast on narrow roads where coming up real quick on 25 or 50 bicyclists is common. I just don't see it.

Not just Malibu, Hugh...and I agree.

[5axis]

Mad sunday at the isle of man... at least it is one directional traffic.

[URY914]

In Florida it is illegal to even watch a street race.

[imcarthur]

Originally Posted by Hugh R

I've gone on a few of the Malibu runs here in SoCal and I probably won't again. They are going really, really fast on narrow roads where coming up real quick on 25 or 50 bicyclists is common. I just don't see it.

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Not just Malibu, Hugh...and I agree.

Yeah, here too. I've led runs & it is easy to get carried away with the mix of testosterone & gas fumes.

Ian

[Tobra]

Originally Posted by austin552

Saw a beautiful 930 wrapped around a tree sort of like that, had just talked to the guy like an hour earlier. I was 16, and already diggin' cars. Per the CHP, "He went to a movie, me being the doorman, went and got some coffee and a dessert. Struck a tree at a high rate of speed, spinning 270* after failing to negotiate a bend in the road." It is a wide stretch of Ethan, abuts Cal Expo, and at the time there was pretty much nothing but tall grass and a couple of really big oak trees between the movie theater and Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour on Howe ave; I think it is a Tony Romas now. The other Farrell's had an F-86 from an air show go through the front window and kill a few dozen people back in the '70's, mostly kids at birthday parties. They had this huge metal bowl they would bring out, The Zoo. Had little plastic animals and candles in it, they bring it out singing happy birthday, takes two people to carry the rig they use. Definitely would get sued by some kid "choking" on a plastic giraffe if they served it now. A scoop of every kind of ice cream they had, and they had a lot. We had gone to the one on Howe for my birthday the year before so that plane hitting the ice cream joint was a tragedy that made a big impression on me, but I digress.

Two cars racing, They went by too fast to see what kind of car the other one was, yellow, just a flash glimpse out of my peripheral vision. It was loud. He was so broken. Other car was just gone, could hear it going. Told the girl selling tickets to watch the door, ran over, ran back, called the cops. They got there so fast, but it did not matter. Everybody went to go look at the car, and after to see what it did to the tree. I did not want to see that tree again, they washed it off, so you could not really see after, but I know he had the window down and that a seat belt won't save you if a tree caves in the side of your car, and your head if it is sticking out the window at the time. It is surprisingly vivid to me almost 30 years later. The colors, smells. He was a really nice, cool, young guy, probably less than 30 with a car I would be jealous of now. I guess he was cruising for chicks at the movies looking back on it. Fortunate he had no luck, or it would have been two dead people I suppose

Street Racin', I'm against it

[Oh Haha]

I did it when I was younger.
Not that it makes it any better but we had a .25 mile section of one way, two lane, non residential expressway we did it on. We had clear vison for at least a half mile.

This is just a tragic accident.

I can believe there were olders folks there, though. We had several fathers, uncles and such that would come out to watch if there was a BIG race.

[id10t]

All depends on the street, but 98% of the time, it is not a good thing to do.


Not too far south of where I am there is a subdivision that failed - I imagine there are a few more out there now... Anyway, this was 20k acres with 2 planned golf courses, the roads were paved, there were street signs (but no lights) and 6 houses off in one corner of the development. We used to go deer hunting, target shooting, etc. out there, so as far as safety for others went, we had it.

Too bad Dad wouldn't let me borrow the 356 or 911 back then....

[Mo_Gearhead]

Cars + Streets/Roads = Racing.
Has always happened ...and always will.

I heard a reporter interviewing a resident of the area of that recent crash. She said it had been going on for YEARS, on Friday and Sat. nights. Many residents had complained to the police ...with NO effect (her viewpoint).

The racer's apparently even blocked off side streets/driveways during a race in some sort of 'attempt' at safety for someone wandering/driving in on the scene. The resident said one local woman was stopped from using the street when she attempted to leave her house to take a sick child to the emergency room. True or not ...who knows?

But if it was going on for YEARS ...and police reports can be verified, then send
in the clowns (lawyers).

[Flatbutt1]

IMHO street racing is never a good idea. I'm constantly being challenged by the squids that come up from the city into my wooded backroads. I just wave them on. More times than not they are being scraped up off of the very unforgiving boulders that lie in wait just inside the tree line.