rikyuu Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 has anyone noticed that cars driving into houses is often in the news (on the radio at least)? I never really heard of it in the UK, but in Oz it seems to be a daily occurrence. Yesterday alone there were 2 in Sydney. One car crashed through the front of the house, hit a guy eating his dinner and came out the back. Is it because inexperienced drivers are allowed to drive high powered rear wheel drive cars and then lose it in the wet or doing burnouts? If so, why don't the authorities do something about it and change the rules? (like banning rwd cars for inexperienced drivers, like they do with turbos). One day someone's kids are going to get killed. Ironically, p-platers can't drive the new VW Golf turbo (which is front wheel drive and only turbo'd for economy), but can drive a rwd 3.8l Commodore or 4.0l Falcon kicking out 250bhp!! :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harpodom Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 I haven't noticed TBH, but then again I never listen to radio and rarely watch TV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikyuu Posted September 20, 2011 Author Share Posted September 20, 2011 I haven't noticed TBH, but then again I never listen to radio and rarely watch TV yeah, I just listen to the radio on the way to work for the music and chat, but they insist on telling me the news every 15 minutes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olly Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Yes kids in high powered cars - after asking my son never to drive too fast, he drove in the wet in his high powered car around the roundabout and ran off the road into someone's garden. Stopped at the brickwork of the front room, lucky no one injured. It was a costly exercise for him, but he though he was invincible as some of these kids do. Just off his P plates too - still paying off the court fine:policeman: In Victoria, high powered cars are impounded (and sometimes squashed) under the HOON LAWS (hence the uk F1 driver getting his car impounded). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keily Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 has anyone noticed that cars driving into houses is often in the news (on the radio at least)? I never really heard of it in the UK, but in Oz it seems to be a daily occurrence. Yesterday alone there were 2 in Sydney. One car crashed through the front of the house, hit a guy eating his dinner and came out the back. Is it because inexperienced drivers are allowed to drive high powered rear wheel drive cars and then lose it in the wet or doing burnouts? If so, why don't the authorities do something about it and change the rules? (like banning rwd cars for inexperienced drivers, like they do with turbos). One day someone's kids are going to get killed. Ironically, p-platers can't drive the new VW Golf turbo (which is front wheel drive and only turbo'd for economy), but can drive a rwd 3.8l Commodore or 4.0l Falcon kicking out 250bhp!! :shocked: seems to be a common occurence here in perth aswell .....one yesterday went right through the front of the house into the lounge and finally landed in the back patio ....wtf are these houses made of [crap] when a car can go straight through ? ....luckily no one was killed but the guy had to be scraped out by his wife from under a pile of rubble .....poor souls only came over from the uk 4 months ago !!! mrs keily Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CGregory Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 Interesting post but cars/lorries often crash into houses in the UK as well. Maybe just not hitting the press like in Oz. Cars usually come off worse than the houses in UK though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rikyuu Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share Posted September 26, 2011 Interesting post but cars/lorries often crash into houses in the UK as well.Maybe just not hitting the press like in Oz. Cars usually come off worse than the houses in UK though! yeah, nothing like a double brick wall to stop a runaway car! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyyu Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 yeah, nothing like a double brick wall to stop a runaway car! a cavity brick wall will not stop a 1.5 ton vehicle at speed either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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