Driver is badly hurt as car hits wall and 4×4
Thursday 1st July 2010, 11:30AM BST.
A 34-year-old local man suffered a broken arm and possible internal injuries when his car struck another vehicle and a wall at speed at Richmond Corner, St Sampson’s, just after 9pm yesterday. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0992924)
A MAN was seriously injured last night when he crashed into a four-wheel drive and then a wall at the junction of Grandes Maisons Road and Bulwer Avenue.
It is believed that the man, who was driving a black Vauxhall, had been racing another car.
The Ambulance and Rescue Service received two calls at 9.10pm and duty officer Dean De La Mare said the 34-year-old local had a broken arm and possible internal injuries.
He was put onto a stretcher and drip infusions were administered, he said.
The two people in the dark-green 4×4 were unhurt.
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Thankfully it was just a broken arm!
What an idiot.
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34 and racing cars? not the cleverest thing to do is it. Just glad I wasn’t around at the time driving with my baby! People can be so pathetic.
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Idiots like that deserve it. Im glad the people in the 4X4 were in a 4X4 otherwise it could have been much more serious for the innocent parties here. Unfortunatly he Only got a broken arm and internal injuries, i think something more would have knocked some sense through that think skull and that of others who like to race around.
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kev runs have aways existed since cars went fast – i recall being an exhilirated, scared passenger on the sunday night round the island runs back in the seventies, once 3 or 4 abreast at vazon (in the wide bit), once almost straightover albecq and once 90 mph plus on the narrow road from the dairy to st martins (i kid you not – the goal was to watch the speedo creep over the nine zero before the bailiffs x road). all utter madness. drivers and passengers were all in their teens, certainly not in thirties. i do not know if the drivers then had any notion of the sentences they might receive for such an offence, let alone if they would have been put off by the penalties. but i think ‘we were all young once’ type attitude is no good. if any driver is guilty of driving at 80 plus in guernsey they should be jailed for 2 months and off the road for 10 years – then review in due course and see if it works – you need a deterent to this madness. ps – take the precious car away too if it aint wrecked.
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An all to common site are cars speeding around, is it not a 35mph limit? This type of driving deserves this outcome, just glad no innocent party was injured. No doubt there were loud exhausts involved. These seem all to common and the police do nothing about this racket roaring around the roads in a very anti-social manner, a total disgrace and a blight on our island.
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How caring of you BigBush “unfortunately he only got a broken arm and internal injuries” what would you have rathered, the man died???
who knows what was going on in his head, in his life to do this. im sure the man involved is deeply ashamed of his actions so who the hell are you to say something like that!
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Big Bush
One of the reasons I drive a 4×4!
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Starry – I don’t think anyone would wish that this man died, but the reason for his accident was due to racing. As in the article.
If he hadn’t of been racing and speeding then more care would have been taken and I’m almost certain that the accident would not have happened. This was his fault afterall, not the wall at Grande Maison Road.
At least there was a bit of “just deserves” by him breaking HIS arm as opposed to an inocent driver/bystanders neck. Regardless of what’s going on in his head that’s no excuse. Many people have to deal with stressful and life changing issues on a daily basis, however, they all manage to do so without having to jump in the car and put other’s lifes in danger. I doubt this was the case anyhow. Let’s face it, he was most likely out on a jolly.
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Starry
I dont agree with your point of being ashamed. In his head he’s probably blaming the other driver even though it was his fault.
I bet in a couple of months time he’ll probably be boasting about his “war wounds”, and scanning the autotrader website for potential replacements.
I’d agree with prison sentences for excessive speeding.
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Starry – Rubbish post! I wonder if you’d be so considerate of the speeder’s feelings and mental state if he had crashed into your car (or even you) before his fastest lap-time attempt was so rudely interrupted by a granite wall?! Stop being so melodramatic – he drove like an idiot and deserves his comeuppance, which will hopefully be on a grand scale. He should count himself very lucky he didn’t do himself, or more improtantly, anybody else any more harm than his own broken arm and a bruised ego. Hopefully he will learn his lesson, but I agree with Dave Haslam and believe a rear spoiler of that magnitude on a 34 year old’s car might just suggest otherwise. You can take the boy out of the racer, but you can’t take the racer out of the boy!
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A member of my family often walks around that corner , if this idiot had hit him ,then he wish he had died.
34 yr old BOYS like him should grow up , our insurance premiums are high because of stupid fools like him ! no sympathy for his injuries from me i’m afraid.
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Starry – Yes… it seems you have a very valid point there… im completely out of line… im sorry i wasnt putting other peoples lives at risk by bein a *too explicit for on here* and im pretty sure i can guess what was going through his head… Maybe… Racing and showing off a car… i suppose you are right, a very good reason for him to not only risk his own life but that of others… if his life is that bad then maybe he should go to something called counseling instead of bringing other people into the equation and risking theirs by something as pathetic as racing… would you not agree?… well obviously not.
Imagine it was you, or someone you knew in that 4×4, infact, imagine it was just a standard car, would you really be so rightious and consider his mental stability? Its got nothing to do with that, its stupidity in a high form and lack of consideration for everyone else that is the main issue and he deserves what he got and im not taking that back!
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BigBush, I concur entirely.
Starry, i’m unsure of your generation however imagine if your grandchild, child, wife, brother, sister, mother had been walking across the road at the point, when this chap had been driving and crashed. If he is so very mentally unstable then he shouldnt be driving. My goodness.
Your post is absolutely absurd.
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Firstly this guy should remember that a young lad died within a few hundred metres of here not so long ago.
Secondly, why don’t we just have a speed camera at Bulwer Avenue? This is a problem area and this could help save a life one day.
I agree with blah, 10 years off the roads for these losers and possible prison sentence.
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Why has this become a topic for posters? There are road accidents regularly given Press space. I suspect having a big brute 4×4 may have something to do with it, coupled with the fact that there are some dedicated closet Reliant Robin users out there??
He didn’t mow down your grannies, mangle your cats, decimate your dogs, journey onwards into your jacuzzis. He is probably feeling a tad sore and a bit of a twit. Also no doubt he is looking at bus timetables, sounding out the missus,etc. Whom amongst us has not been the cause of an RTA or, similar.
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Yes too many of these speedsters get away with it time and time again, after owning a business on the kev run and working late into the evenings we phoned the police on many occassions about the antics of these speedsters only to be told we will try and send someone down there. I dont think that ever happened.
Lo and behold what happens I get stopped going 29mph on a winters evening along Cobo, when it should have been 25mph.So it does make you think.
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Hi.
Well, im sure it can be proven without a doubt that this person was being a complete fool, I really hope that his insurance company doesnt pay out other than to the third party. He should be placed on a register with other insurance companies so his premium is higher!
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Stiletto
He wasnt driving a 4×4. So that has nothing to do with it.
I expect the fact that he was “racing” another car, to be the cause of peoples outrage.
And your last paragraph, the fact that he didnt do any of those things was down to luck, if anyone or thing was in front of that wall, they would now be dead, he was lucky in that respect.
And finally I have never been the cause of an RTA or similar.
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@Stiletto
I haven’t been the cause of an accident (as yet). It has been a topic for posters because of the speed he is claimed to have been going.
I also suggest you read the article before commenting in future to save you the embarrassment of looking so silly.
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Stiletto – your post as rubbish as Starry’s – if not more! Thank you to Dave Haslam and Dean for pointing out its inaccuracies and flaws – means I don’t have to. It always helps to read the artilce in question before offering your two penny’s worth.
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He is 34 and a boy racer. The way he crashed his car indicated a scant regard for the safety of others. That says an awful lot about him.
However if he wishes to act in this manner then I suggest he saves up for an airfare and goes to the UK where he can find a big disused wartime airfield [and there are several]and indulge his idiotic ego to his heart’s content.
Perhaps he’d also like to go a few rounds with The Stig on Top Gear. Difference being that The Stig, while s/he drives fast, is at least competent.
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Dave Haslem, Dean and Ponderous -
Yes, you are right, I misread the article, got it totally wrong, so castigations (on that point) are duly accepted. “Think I’ll go and eat worms”.
You have to agree, that the Press have a prediliction, it seems to me, for highlighting an issue which is guaranteed to raise angst amongst the populace.
I do hope, Dave & Dean that in declaring that you are RTA free, at fault or otherwise, you have not envoked the dreaded sod’s law.
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A man of this age playing boy racer is utterly pathetic.
I am sick to the back teeth of hearing the kev-runners on various evenings, driving like absolute loons round the island, and equally so, of the clearly audible sound of the Forest Road at the weekend, being used by selfish morons as a racetrack.
The island’s roads are small, and because of it, we have a relatively low speed limit, supposedly, this is enforced by the Police.
So my question is, if I can virtually set my watch by when the boy racing starts (it’s the same, week in, week out) and know what their routes are (we all do, it’s been the same for YEARS), then why the HELL can’t the Police be there to actually DO something about it?!!!
I’ve little to no time for the Police over here as it is, and on the few occasions I’ve called to inform them that there’s someone trying to kill themselves (or someone else) with their usual antisocial behavior, you can almost hear the sigh and clink of the teacup being put back down, as they wearily confirm that they’ll ‘go and check it out’….
in their own time, that is….
which never works, as they hardly every catch them….
which is equally pathetic.
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Stiletto
Quite, I hope we havent invoked sod’s law too.
Although I did knock a wheelbarrow over yesterday whilst reversing into my driveway (the ever gardening Mrs Haslam had moved it), hopefully that’s spared me!!
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It seems to me that most if not all of these “keve” cars have performance enhancing modifications made to them. It would be interesting to see if their insurance companies have been made aware of these?
As a resident in town quite near the Salarie and North Beach carparks it always interests me that I can often see and hear the Kevs “amusing” themselves by doing burnouts and doughnuts in these carparks yet it never appears to be noticed by the authorities who also occupy a station not that much further away than my house.
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Scarlett:
You have little to no time for the police over here? Would seem to suggest you do have time for police elsewhere?
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