997 GT3 accident.. very SAD!

[Erik Mckenna]

POL-SE: A 23 / circle pin mountain: Deadly traffic accident - 1-st announcement

28.04.2007 - 00:14 o'clock

A 23 / circle pin mountain (ots)-
In the today's evening, 27.04.07 about 20:15 o'clock, it came to a heavy one
Traffic accident for the A 23 in the direction of the south between him
Connection points nest / Elmshorn and Elmshorn.

Porsche GT3 has gone without braking under a saddle traction engine.

Witnesses bragged, that the Porsche driver on the right lane with
to respected 200 km/h was on the move.

Porsche caught fire after the impact. Road user as well as her
50-year-old truck drivers tried to extinguish at first themselves and to
help.

The driver of the saddle traction engine remained uninjured, fortunately.
The Porschefahrer succumbed to the results of the accident.

At the moment the highway 23 is in the direction of the south between the both
Connection points completely closed. The salvage operations still last
till at least 03:00 o'clock in.

The identity of the passenger car driver is not certain nowadays yet.

[Doug&Julie]

[89911]

The reason I would never buy a GT3 is that it is an absolute ridiculous car to drive on the roads. It's like having a supermodel wife that sleeps in a seperate bed. Unless you have a track in you backyard, the temptation is just to great and then bad, bad things happen. I would either be 1.dead, 2.under arrest, 3. badly injured with no car insurance, or 4.constantly frustrated if I owned one. I'll happily drive my Carrera and enjoy the road.

[rs6er]

Where was this?

[9dreizig]

From the names of the highways I think it's Germany.. But if you've got the Autobahn, then a GT3 makes sense...

[84porsche]

Ouch. Best to the driver's family etc.

[CurtEgerer]

What's up with the HUGE graphic on the door??

[widgeon13]

Elmshorn, Germany, near Hamburg

[thinkfloyd14]

Originally posted by 89911
The reason I would never buy a GT3 is that it is an absolute ridiculous car to drive on the roads. It's like having a supermodel wife that sleeps in a seperate bed. Unless you have a track in you backyard, the temptation is just to great and then bad, bad things happen. I would either be 1.dead, 2.under arrest, 3. badly injured with no car insurance, or 4.constantly frustrated if I owned one. I'll happily drive my Carrera and enjoy the road.

I couldn't disagree more, especially in this circumstance. He lives in Germany so the Autobahn would be heavenly. Seondly, no one drives a GT3 everyday, so when you do take it for a drive, its either in mountain passes, the A bahn, or for this guy maybe the ring. He was just unlucky.

[Jeff Alton]

This accident has nothing to do with the car choice.... Just really bad driving.

Cheers

[widgeon13]

I'd say it's a little premature to make any assumptions about anything other than knowing that someone perished in this accident.

[wastintime]

eh, stupidity is stupidity, I'm not sure it's a "temptation" to do something you know is insanely stupid. People own Carrera GTs that drive them almost every day and don't total them... and then there are people that total them a day after buying them shifting from first to second... natural selection at work...

[dentist90]

Yuck.

This is something I always think about, even when I'm not jacking around. Most vehicles sit much higher than ours and what would ordinarily be a write-off collision ends up being a decapitation.

This is my buddies' GM with an average lift. Trucks like this are more plentiful than stop signs in my area. Scary.

A colleague of mine is an amateur racer. His comment was that he is more comfortable going 100mph on a track than 70 on a highway. Why? Everyone is going in the same direction and there aren't any telephone poles at the shoulder. Makes sense.

[ScottKelly911]

Nice to see that there are some really good stand up people on here. A guy dies in a very unfortunate accident and you guys start talking about whether or not his car was a good choice for daily driving etc. I'd expect that kind of talk on a ricer forum, but not on here. I thought we were a bit more mature, compassionate and dignified than that. Thanks for prooving me wrong. Where he was driving or what kind of car the guy had isn't the point of this type of thread. My condolences to the victims family and friends. Sad to see one less GT3 on the road, even sadder yet, one lost human life. Flame away, call me a hippy. This was a tragic event and deserves to be treated as so.

[Zeke]

Originally posted by ScottKelly911
Nice to see that there are some really good stand up people on here. A guy dies in a very unfortunate accident and you guys start talking about whether or not his car was a good choice for daily driving etc. I'd expect that kind of talk on a ricer forum, but not on here. I thought we were a bit more mature, compassionate and dignified than that. Thanks for prooving me wrong. Where he was driving or what kind of car the guy had isn't the point of this type of thread. My condolences to the victims family and friends. Sad to see one less GT3 on the road, even sadder yet, one lost human life. Flame away, call me a hippy. This was a tragic event and deserves to be treated as so.

Couldn't agree more. I was half expecting someone to ask if the engine was OK.

[wastintime]

I suppose we could hold hands if it would make you guys feel better, but it's not going to bring him/her back. 150,000 people die every day, 1.8 per second... I'm not crying over a guy who was going 120 in icy conditions and plowed his GT3 into a tanker. All it does is make responsible sports car owners look bad.

[nostatic]

I think the purpose of these threads (and the related on on the elise board) is to remind people to not drive fast on public roads. Take it to the track. When you play boy racer on the streets, you risk not only your own life, but innocent people around you. That's one reason I no longer do canyon runs.

[unclebilly]

Icy conditions? The road looks perfectly dry to me - that is flame retardant foam, not snow.

I was at the P-Car dealer the other day and the mechanics were test driving a GT3. When they went down the slight incline and on to the road out front at a bit of an angle, the driver's front tire was 2" or more off of the ground. The suspension is very stiff in these.

[porsche930dude]

Is the engine ok? Kidding. That totally sucks. When i see accidents like this im always curious as to how it happend. Like how did he not see a tractor trailer straight ahead. I guess im thinking it would make me a better driver to know what watch out for or whatever. Definatly a bad day right there

[wastintime]

lol, unclebilly, I didn't look at the picture hard enough... I was in the middle of watching a movie on snowboarding and for some reason naturally assumed the fire retardent foam was snow. So I guess that makes the driver slightly less stupid