19 y.o loses control and hits a house.

RG · 14-05-2006, 02:45 PM

Just heard on the news that a 19 y.o guy has been charged with a string of diving offences after losing control of his car and going through a brick wall and into someones bedroom knocking the owner of the house out of bed. To make things worse he had a 1 y.o child in the car sitting unrestrained on it's mother's lap in the front passenger seat. No one was seriously injured thank god. He was driving a VR/S commodore.

RG · 14-05-2006, 02:53 PM

Here's a link. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/com...5E1702,00.html

DDXR6T · 14-05-2006, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by GreenEL

He was driving a VR/S commodore.

Explains it.

pertuan · 14-05-2006, 02:59 PM

Idiot drivers with a bad attitute towards safety. Maybe driving tests should encompass a psychological component too as well as the practical.

Woz · 14-05-2006, 03:06 PM

I wanna know how he did it backwards. Saw an ad for the news story a couple of minutes ago on channel ten. Neither the driver or the bird standing next to him (child's mother?) looked all that witty. Harsh punishments regarding the baby, I'd hope. There's certain safety laws for a reason.

RG · 14-05-2006, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Woz

I wanna know how he did it backwards. Saw an ad for the news story a couple of minutes ago on channel ten. Neither the driver or the bird standing next to him (child's mother?) looked all that witty. Harsh punishments regarding the baby, I'd hope. There's certain safety laws for a reason.

Yes child's mother. It would be a safe bet that the DHS will have a chat to them in the near future. And to get it backwards wouldn't be too hard, just go too fast spin the car and viola, backwards into a house.

kyro_02 · 14-05-2006, 04:27 PM

didn't know you could get charged for diving :P

i guess the guy pushed his limits too far and got slapped

RG · 14-05-2006, 04:29 PM

Three teenage chicks in the back. $50 says he was showing off trying to impress them. Bloody spanner head.

S3SR · 14-05-2006, 04:36 PM

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Originally Posted by GreenEL

Three teenage chicks in the back. $50 says he was showing off trying to impress them. Bloody spanner head.

impressive would be getting a car better than a VR/S i mean come on

RG · 14-05-2006, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by FALCONSR

impressive would be getting a car better than a VR/S i mean come on

nah VS commo's are fully sik uleh!!

WizBang · 14-05-2006, 04:41 PM

And I take it it was a wet road as there are two things the rain brings out ,one is snails and the other is dum Commodore drivers
Poor kid is all I can say ,lets just hope they have learnt from this (DON'T THINK SO )

fiery · 14-05-2006, 05:06 PM

The amount of people you see driving around with kids on their laps is unreal. I have had goes at people for doing it, but they just don't care.

I wonder if the Police really got the media to help push this issue in particular (baby on the lap) whether it would help stop others from being so irresponsible... (probably not eh)...

RG · 14-05-2006, 05:08 PM

Not much chance of that with this case, car was full already.

OZFORDAU · 14-05-2006, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Dan635

Explains it.

It doesn't explain anything......It's the drivers fault not the cars!

Cheers

Simon

RG · 14-05-2006, 05:35 PM

They just showed a different shot on cannel ten news. Turns out the accident happened accross the road from a Police station.

**Professor Farnsworth** · 14-05-2006, 05:36 PM

Just saw a newsflash about it, from what i can see it happened over the road from the relatively new cop shop, at the northern end of Coburg.. near the First & Last pub. Anyone confirm this ? Only a few clicks from me.

**Professor Farnsworth** · 14-05-2006, 05:37 PM

ok i've read the article now, forget my question, that's where it was.

chief · 14-05-2006, 06:18 PM

Saw it on the news and the one local said "it was bound to happen". Re the intersection. Lucky the no one was injured especially the child.

**Professor Farnsworth** · 14-05-2006, 06:22 PM

I've been through that intersection dozens of times and i don't believe it's particularly dangerous. It's in a 60 zone, the only 'dangerous' thing i could think of is that 3 lanes become 2 a hundred metres or so from the lights, heading south, but i'm not sure which direction the brain surgeon was travelling in. From the pictures i saw it 'looks' like he may have been coming from the road running 90degs to sydney road, and lost it somehow going through the lights, spinning it 180, and reversing into the house on the corner.

EF, What else? · 14-05-2006, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by FALCONSR

impressive would be getting a car better than a VR/S i mean come on

Im sure Shazza and co. were absolutely drooling over the Commodore

ten[A]cio[U]s · 14-05-2006, 06:42 PM

Thats just bloody stupid..

Woz · 14-05-2006, 07:11 PM

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Originally Posted by GreenEL

And to get it backwards wouldn't be too hard, just go too fast spin the car and viola, backwards into a house.

I understand this and thought about it before asking the question, however what I'm getting at is more a case of, how do you get the car the whole way across someones front lawn and then backwards into the house?

I don't know how big the front lawn was, but I'm guessing that'd be a bit of a fair effort.

Oh, and the driver was stung with drink driving. I wish the baby the best of luck with a new, slightly more responsible family.

**TUF_302** · 14-05-2006, 07:17 PM

What a total tosser, you should always restrain a child in the car properly!!!

phat_stak_tipa · 14-05-2006, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by GreenEL

He was driving a VR/S commodore.

why does that not surprise me

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**Professor Farnsworth** · 14-05-2006, 07:54 PM

some of you people seem to think that idiots ONLY drive holdens, i mean, granted, in my area about 7 out of every 10 commodores you see will be driving with complete disregard for everyone around them, there are still a LOT of morons driving fords. Could just as easily have been an xr6t that did the damage ..

Aeron · 14-05-2006, 07:58 PM

The guy was also dont for drink driving. People that get in a car with a drunk driver is just crazy.

xd5.8l · 14-05-2006, 08:01 PM

Hey WAZ don't commodore's and snail's belong to the same genome?

**Professor Farnsworth** · 14-05-2006, 08:02 PM

well you can put it simply in saying, this sort of behaviour sadly will never stop, only get worse with no pro-active measures taken by the government.

Anyway i hate getting into political discussions, so i'll just say this - humans are self destructive, and will inevitably wipe themselves out.

Mike Gayner · 14-05-2006, 08:29 PM

Don't start with the Holden bashing. Morons can drive any sort of car, and this had nothing, I mean nothing to do with the car being a Commodore. You guys sound like absolute morons linking the Holden with the idiot driving it. I know plenty of responsible driver who happen to love Holdens. These comments say a lot more about you than they do about Holden drivers.

The Monty · 14-05-2006, 08:33 PM

In all seriousness, this is bad. But I find it even worse that when that African guy drove into a PRE-SCHOOL DRUNK, and that young person had to get there foot amputated, he was practically let off. I mean, has the courts got their head up their provrbial, yeah, fine the guy and send him to jail, he does deserve it, but where is the consistency in the law system?. It seems as though its more of a crime if you are an aussie!!!!