2 Die in Car Crash Perth

[gareth_oau]

TWO men have died in a horrific fiery high-speed traffic crash on Perth's Riverside Drive, just east of the city early today.
The pair, who have yet to be identified, were travelling in a car, believed to be a VE Holden Commodore, along Riverside Drive about 1am (WST) when it left the road and slammed into a large palm tree and caught fire.

The car was torn apart on impact.

The driver was incinerated in his seat while a passenger was thrown from the car and died at the scene.

[Ideo]

Woah.

There must have been serious speed involved with that.

Glad no innocents were caught up in it.

[Tim]

wowsers they must have been doing warp speed to do that?!
Trees are pretty tough arent they.

[3r1k]

Ugh that's nasty.

My Condolences to the family.

[mikinoz]

May be the worst one I have seen in Australia.

Sorry to hear the passenger passed away.

[Greg Roles]

That's just horrific, guess at least they didn't hit someone else. There's "spirited" driving, then there's just lunacy.

[DVR68U]

wow thats a big hit

[thestu]

holy crapola!

[stevienix]

not nice to see hey
perth was a nightmare this morning to get around ......

how did you get those pics ??

[mikinoz]

Sydney morning herald

[55ASI GTI]

Holy guacamole! Sad to see

Weak cars, strong trees...

[Buller_Scott]

wow. just last weekend i went for a cruise with a bunch of guys (not VAG) and we all brapped pretty hard... plenty of tyre chirping.

coming home safe and then seeing something like this, makes you count your lucky stars indeed, especially after coming back from proper spirited driving (and no, i dont want to read some blatant LIAR telling me that im irresponsible, and that the only time they themselves exceed 60kmh in their stage 2+ gti with downpipe, fmic, hpfp, BMC CDA, full rebound and bounce adjustable suspension/ R spec tyres is when they're on one of their 2 track days a year).

at the same time, though, it makes you wonder... how completely out of anything resembling their knowledge of the limits of the car, under different circumstances, must these guys have been operating the vehicle in... i mean, i thought a front fender bender write off with no/ minor injuries, a few tears of embarrassment/ shame/ self hatred at having lost your pride and joy etc was far enough outside the limits of the car (as in, REALLY far).....

[gareth_oau]

not nice to see hey
perth was a nightmare this morning to get around ......

how did you get those pics ??

I just googled "perth crash riverside drive" - plenty of hits

[Ideo]

wow. just last weekend i went for a cruise with a bunch of guys (not VAG) and we all brapped pretty hard... plenty of tyre chirping.

coming home safe and then seeing something like this, makes you count your lucky stars indeed, especially after coming back from proper spirited driving (and no, i dont want to read some blatant LIAR telling me that im irresponsible, and that the only time they themselves exceed 60kmh in their stage 2+ gti with downpipe, fmic, hpfp, BMC CDA, full rebound and bounce adjustable suspension/ R spec tyres is when they're on one of their 2 track days a year).

at the same time, though, it makes you wonder... how completely out of anything resembling their knowledge of the limits of the car, under different circumstances, must these guys have been operating the vehicle in... i mean, i thought a front fender bender write off with no/ minor injuries, a few tears of embarrassment/ shame/ self hatred at having lost your pride and joy etc was far enough outside the limits of the car (as in, REALLY far).....

There's driving in a spirited manner. Then there's driving without any consideration.

I'm a spirited driver. But, for a start, it is rarely ever in a built up area.

[55ASI GTI]

For me, never in a built up area...