[FocusOnPunk]

What was all that noise about doing it late at night on deserted roads being responsible and safe?

ACCOKEEK, Md. - A car plowed into a crowd that apparently gathered to watch a drag race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing seven people and injuring at least four, police said.

The car went out of control on Route 210 around 3:40 a.m. and hit people standing on the roadside, Prince George's County Police Cpl. Clinton Copeland said. A tractor-trailer that came by shortly afterward may also have struck someone on the road as it tried to avoid the crash, he said.

"It's probably one of the worst scenes I've seen," Copeland said. "This is a situation that could have been avoided, and it's a very tragic situation."

Four people were taken to hospitals, Copeland said. Their conditions weren't immediately known.

Route 210 has two lanes in each direction and traffic lights about every 150 to 200 yards in Accokeek, about 20 miles south of Washington.

Investigators were working to piece together the chain of events and had "more questions than answers," Copeland said.

-AP

 

[Redlight]

Wow. It's amazing that people still don't get it.......

There are lives at risk other than your own.

Think about how many lives have been affected now...not just the 2 retards that decided to race....AND the lives of the ones killed.

Thousands of people have now been affected by this.....

Sad indeed.

dave.

 

[Dukman]

Well, what really baffles me is that you'll see people lined ALL the way down the run. Apparently no one has enough sense to realize that the cars that lose control will be going a hell of a lot faster at mid-course than at the launch.

 

[boostedzx3]

Well, what really baffles me is that you'll see people lined ALL the way down the run. Apparently no one has enough sense to realize that the cars that lose control will be going a hell of a lot faster at mid-course than at the launch.

Thats what I was about to say. Lets all stand and watch cars go triple digits by us, thankfully everyone around here has enough sense not to do that. If they wanna watch around here you get in a pack of cars and hang back, not just to watch but also not let other people get close so we dont kill innocent people driving. They must have been pretty close to get hit.

 

[biscuitninja]

Yep, after a few minutes of attending a street race, I left. Just WAY too dangerous, idiots with fast cars, BIG egos and very little common sense.

I feel bad for these kids, they were/are so young to have their lives extinguished by something so stupid. Anyway, good luck
-bix

 

[boostedzx3]

Yep, after a few minutes of attending a street race, I left. Just WAY too dangerous, idiots with fast cars, BIG egos and very little common sense.

I feel bad for these kids, they were/are so young to have their lives extinguished by something so stupid. Anyway, good luck
-bix

thats how alot of it is, it's not as big here as it used to be. We had problems with that when I was around 19 but I was all for it then. Not to mention my focus was all but stock then. The crowd thinned out and the only few that hang out now have been doing it for a few years now and nothing has happened to any of them yet. The rookies seem to be the ones you hear about.

 

[askjeffro]

Street racing like this is stupid, get it into your heads already. The end.

*I find it interesting that when a person loses it and goes shooting at a school we get a full biography of the individual, but when some tool is street racing and plows 7 people out of existence not even a name is mentioned. (I'm referencing the current CNN story)

 

[v8FociDreams]

Let's let these idiots weed themselves out of the gene pool.

 

[BackNBlackSVT]

Wow that's sad, and for what? a stupid senseless race. You might think your in control of your life but your not, at any second everything you are can be taken from you.

 

[j20000]

and did you see the car that was racing, it was like a 00 Cadillac DeVille or something big...I couldn't make it out in the small pics.

 

[jordanr1987]

"Witnesses said they had just watched two cars in the illegal street race speed past when a car without any lights on came up behind them and veered into a crowd of about 50."

so it wasnt the guys racing

 

[v8FociDreams]

Vigilante style!

 

[FocusOnPunk]

Indeed, more facts since I posted the story.

A white sedan hit people standing on the side of Route 210 around 3:40 a.m., Prince George's County Police Cpl. Clinton Copeland said, but it wasn't clear whether that was one of the cars involved in the race.

We'll see I guess.

 

[rpvitiello]

Watch it turn out to be a random drunk that killed people watching a street race. I would LOVE to see how the media reacts to that.

Interesting enough like 3 people were killed around here who were allegedly street racing in a mall parking lot when the cars hit a poll.

News went into a whole story how the schools and state can be expected to teach kids to be responsible, and parents need to actually be parents.

 

[Zephyr763]

They seem to think "I've been driving for five years, what's the difference between driving at 50 and 150?"

And then they hit a pot hole, or a part of the road that is uneven........ CRASH!!

I have a couple of questions.. How old were they, what drugs were involved and what brand of alchohol was everyone drinking? See a pattern?

 

[Z63R]

^ That and the fact that the drivers are not properly trained for the high-speed physics of the car and the associated g-loads when getting even a bit sideways or turning and they prolly race all hunched over, the seat laid back so there's no torso support and with just one hand on the wheel.

Throw in Zephyr's scenario with the bad road surface and the torched springs of teh Honda in Question™ that give the car no suspension compliance... it's all so damned retarded.

 

[SpliceVW]

Hopefully we'll see a crackdown on illegal street races from this. We can only hope.

 

[jasonzx3]

15 people dead in the past few days who did not deserve to die. These kids no matter how stupid they were being standing on the side of a stret race did not deserve to die. They should have been smarter and not been at an illeagle street race in the first place let alone linning the run. And the kids here from Northern Illinois who just want to go to class that were killed did not deserve to die becuase of some jack ass who decided he was going to go back to his old college and shoot it up. People need to wise up these days...I feel for every one involved in the NIU shootings and the MD Racing disaster...
R.I.P. all

 

[Z63R]

^ Well said.

Hopefully we'll see a crackdown on illegal street races from this.

The "profiling" will probably get much worse... it's already published info that ANYONE with above-dash guages, too many stickers and dramatically lowered ride height gets hassled, especially here in California's Sac, L.A., Orange and San Diego counties. They consfiscate the car if the emissions equipment has been obviously tampered with... it's all such BS and does little or nothing to defeat street racing.

 

[rpvitiello]

A traffic lights every 150 yards is NOT back country
B we actually need better enforcement of EXISTING laws against drinking etc…
C train kids to RESPECT cars and how dangerous they are, and actually TEACH them how to drive in a training school. Teaching someone how to go 25mph around the block is idiotic. Its time people in the us admit the speed cars travel at, and TEACH people how to judge and handle a car at speed.


And not to get too off topic. Allot of places BAN law abiding citizens from carrying guns in places like colleges. If those laws are in place there needs to be check points at EVERY entrance to the building to make sure no guns and weapons come it. If that is NOT done people should be allowed to carry weapons for personal defense and colleges in the US should start offering classes on gun safety and for licensing. Then next time a psycho walks into a school almost any class has a trained student carrying there personal gun who can take the bastard out before he kills everyone!

The common thing to all of this is TRAINING and personal responsibility!