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I've been driving here for 14 years without a crash of my own (was hit and run once while parked though!), but have been in several taxicab crashes, never anyone hurt, and a couple of friend's crashes as a passenger.
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I've been driving here for 14 years without a crash of my own (was hit and run once while parked though!), but have been in several taxicab crashes, never anyone hurt, and a couple of friend's crashes as a passenger.
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I was reading this on another forum and was holding my breath a bit since my cousin has a silver Porsche on the street where this accident occurred.
I know we love our spirited runs and you can't predict what's going to happen, but regardless of how wonderful our cars are to drive fast, try your best to temper the enthusiasm with sound judgement.
If you're understeering your 911 on public roads, you're driving too fast which supports my argument for all of you upgrading to steamroller 19s.
Just tragic and hits close to home for me. Prayers go out.
Sunday was a very nice, sunny warm day in Seattle which has been a tough thing to come by this year as it's been unusually cool and rainy.
I could totally see myself driving this very road to visit my cousin or head over to Fremont for a meetin' with friends, enjoying the flat6 and then bam.
This isn't posted to make us paranoid, just enjoy life and try to keep the shiny side up. You can control your driving style.
I think you might be right! I didn't see the vent, and it's hard to make out even when looking closely. I should have noticed there's no nack seat. I was looking at the exhaust pies that seemed to be on the driver side rather than the center. Tragic accident.
Terrible accident. I wish news like tihs never happened...
As for the car, the rear deck lid is really long, and the brake light is up by the seats, which leads me to agree that the car is a 986. On a 996 cab, the brake light is right over the engine bay.
-td -> drive safe!
Easy to point fingers here but it's very common to spot cars going 50-55mph on this long and generally straight road on four lanes.
I think the speed limit is 35mph or 40mph.
Man, what a waste.
You really have to be cooking to lose control of a Boxster. Certainly speed way above what is considered safe, forget about legal. Take it to the track, friends.
Prayers to all concerned.
C'mon, Ben. Where's the new you? We're not speaking ill of the dead here. I agree, it may have been a mechanical failure, a blown tire, a bad pothole, a deep puddle, avoiding a rabbit,.....who the heck really knows?
Anyway,
if
it was speeding in a straight 4 lane road, a very common occurrence for me and for a lot of us, you realy have to be going much more than 45-55 mph to lose control in a Boxster in the absence of any other factor.
This is more of a plea, a reminder, to drive safe on the road. We can all die anytime from a bolt of lightning, or from driving too fast on the street.
palting what does this have to do with new or old ben? wtf does it matter if he was going much faster than above legal limits? no one knows how fast hte dude was going or how he lost control.
but a car heading at 55mph hitting another car head on is going to do a lot of damage so for el torr to come in here and speculate is a wtf statement.
i never said anything about anyone saying anything ill about anyone else. i'm just sharing a local story that hit close to home because i have family who lives on that same road and drives a silver porsche.
There are a lot of assumptions being made in this thread on very few details.
As others have said any number of things could have caused a loss of control.
I'm not arguing or hairsplitting. I'm just saying 55 in a 40 really isn't anything. He was probably doing 90 or something crazy. If he was going 55 he must have been driving with his eyes closed, because it just isn't fast enough to cause complete loss of control - especially in a boxster. I think I go 15 over the limit every day of my life, and it's not fast enough to be unable to brake, turn, or evade an obstacle in the road.
Honesty after years and years of driving Angeles Crest I've finally said no more., I have my reasons:
One of the chief temptations of sportbikes or sportscars on ostensibly deserted roads is to start taking a racing line. If you haven't been there, it's mountain on one side, cliff on the other, one lane in either direction, mile after mile of beautiful esses, but littered with big rocks, patches of ice, bicyclists, etc. On Angeles Crest and other similar mountain roads in the middle of a weekday you have nothing but serious iron, and everyone is driving way too fast, but in both directions. The number of near misses over the years, bikes hanging way out coming at you and cars trying to drift through many of the turns and coming sideways through both lanes, finally was crystallized for me when a friend, an auto journalist from Japan, crashed her personal Exige S a few weeks ago trying to evade an oncoming car. Total loss, inches from tumbling down a cliff. I felt particularly awful because I promised to go up there with her. No more Crest for me.
The reason I write about this is I see it a lot late at night, people taking racing lines or at least severely overrunning center lines. If it wasn't DUI, it might have just been someone doing something unsafe.
NYC is another issue entirely. I've been driving here for 14 years without a crash of my own (was hit and run once while parked though!), but have been in several taxicab crashes, never anyone hurt, and a couple of friend's crashes as a passenger. I feel like the biggest issue is that everyone thinks they can be the crazy guy, the 4 lane cut off guy. When twenty people try to change 3 lanes without signalling simultaneously, one of them will drive right into someone in his blindspot, or some poor schmuck eventually will drive straight into one of the hotshots. Happens a lot. I feel like I have a near miss at least once a week when someone just doesn't see me. Might be a good argument for speed yellow, but then all the cabs are yellow, and that's not working out to well for them. Arena Red still an option?
By the way, that Arena Red got me thinking, saw a nice Aston V8 at a post office in NJ today.
As we don't know what happened as yet, anything is speculation.
I use that road a lot, in fact on Sunday morning, it's a city street with limits and sometimes with speed traps, isn't straight and the collision looks like it occured where the road not only has a bend but a warning sign to reduce speed.
This happened in front of where we keep a boat. This was a city surface road. It was a few yards south of a little right bend in the road. Zero chance he was doing 90.
haha you know I won't buy an Aston, and I always bet on black
I don't keep a digital camera with me much anymore, although I can upload a few that I never posted from LA. A few friends owe me some pics as well, maybe next week I can get some aggregated. The new avatar pic there is actually from my Blackberry in front of the River Cafe in Brooklyn. Tried to go to Grimaldi's but th line was epic.
