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Belgik, back to the accident that you mentioned earlier. The story took place
in the Paris suburbs a couple years ago (I think we are talking about the same
accident).
Some guy (say Jean-Pierre) comes back from work late afternoon and bumps into some friends.
One of them, who is actually more of an acquintance, has a brand new 996
convertible that the local dealer kindly let him borrow. Somehow, Jean-Pierre ends up
in the car with two buddies for a test drive around the block. He has never driven a Porsche before.
He decides to show-off the car and finds himself driving downtown at 100 mph. The problem
is, there is a speed-bump that he has not seen. He looses control of the car and crashes
into a bus stop packed with folks waiting for their ride home. Four persons are killed. Amongst
them a mom with her two kids. The driver and his friends run away. The defense tried to argue
that a police car had cut right in front of the car, causing the accident, but I don't think that this was
taken too seriously.
Needless to say, this made a lot of noise. The story was part of a TV program dedicated to
car accidents and safety on the road. Porsche was mentioned several times throughout the program.
Not in a negative way. The idea was that you just should not put this kind of car into anybody's
hand.
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