17 year old dies in crash near Syracuse, NY

[Craig.]

the driver wasnt killed, one of the passengers was. Yes passengers, it sounds like a ferrari 360, i highly doubt it was the enzo, it only had two seats but 3 passengers. the guy in the seat with another on his lap died. (for those who havent read the link)

[Rivers]

I missed the link, its terrible anyway. I doubt its was the Enzo too because Ferrari doesn

[gaztop]

Andrew, your Escort has a chip set embedded in it by Ford. This chip regulates your top speed.
The only way you can make it go faster is spend thousands of pounds having it race tuned.
Your car will then be street illegal.

Speed is what kills  motorists. Remember, The faster one goes, the less control you have over your enviroment!

[ozzy72]

This thread puts me in mind of a bumper sticker I saw on a hearse a few years back
"Drive Carefully. We'll wait "

Ozzy

[loomex]

Thanks for posting the website for the news story. Now I see that the driver must suffer for the rest of his life as most DWI's do. He lived as one of his buddies died

Drinking and driving leads to fatal accident
Updated: 6/21/2004 7:20 AM
By: News 10 Now Staff

           
           
Sheriff's deputies say alcohol and high speed contributed to a crash that killed a teenager in Skaneateles.

It happened around 11:30 Saturday night on Route 20.

Deputies say seventeen-year-old Steven Corsello was driving his father's Ferrari.

David Prendergast, eighteen years old, was sitting on seventeen-year-old Matthew Angelillo's lap in the passenger's seat as the car only has two seats.

Deputies say Corsello crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a minivan.

           
                       
His Ferrari flipped several times before stopping about three hundred feet from where the accident happened.

Emergency workers pronounced Angelillo dead at the scene.

Doctors treated and released Corsello. Prendergast is in fair condition

Corsello's charged with several things, including driving while intoxicated and reckless driving.

He's due in court Wednesday.

I am glad that this post has struck a core and ever glader that our younger kids here agree.

Andrew, the need for speed is almost always there for a guy. We all want to know how fast the car can go. I drove a '67 Buick at 120mph and found that it seems to "float" because of its size. A '93 Dodge Shadow at 115 legally in Montana before a speed limit was re-introdiced and she held the road pretty good. A 94 Chevy Lumina 3.1 Eurosport in the Black Rock Desert at 125mph. This is the same spot the Land speed record of Mach 1 was done. That was in 2000 and the last time I have gone over 100mph in a car

[Fozzer]

Here is another bleedin' disaster... ...!
Just imagine... ...!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3825679.stm

Cheers all...

Paul.

[Da Judge]

It's these idots who ruin it for the rest of us , I'm only 14 but I'm not that stupid to drink and drive. Those people should smarten up! Because of them they upped the driving age(good for siociety, bad for me) but with that they killed thousands of innocent people

[RVChester]

Here in Nepal there is not 'enforced' speed limit, meaning that the posted speed limit is 40kmph in most areas, but the police do you not have the equipment or training to enforce it. Now even though there is no speed limit the road conditions cannot be handled at speed. Therefore the speed limit is actually under 40kmph during the day due to traffic and road conditions. Now I will be the first that to say that I do try and take advantage of empty roads (that I know very well) at night and ride my bike up to it's and MY limit. But before I get yelled at, this is a planned thing, no drinking, the bike is checked out a couple of hours ahead, and if I feel that I am not up to it, I keep it all in slow time.
Like alot of the forum members here, I have seen alot of people I know and don't know wind up dead or close to it due to drink driving. Hell, I nearly ended up that way one night after a couple of beers and a highspeed ride saw me hit a concrete 4ft diameter water pipe at around 100kmph. I was lucky, but not about to push my luck again.
What I'm saying is; respect speed, respect the road, respect your car/bike/plane/etc, and more than anything else, respect your kin, it's them who will have to go and identify the body.
My rant is over...for now.
Wait...one more thing, China shoots drug dealers in the back of the head and makes the family pay for the bullet, that is what should be done to that 17year old in the Ferrari.
Cheers, and apologies.
Roy

[BFMF]

Andrew, your Escort has a chip set embedded in it by Ford. This chip regulates your top speed.
The only way you can make it go faster is spend thousands of pounds having it race tuned.
Your car will then be street illegal.

We're talking about an Escort here. A good car, but not the fastest nor the most powerfull

If my car can hit a 100 MPH, I certainly don't need to spend money trying to go any faster

[Craig.]

my dads escort used to be able to do a 100 easy, ok it started shaking to pieces  at 105:) plus differant models but it should

[Jakemaster]

Kinda wierd that I read this just as I am ready to go and start drivers ed this morning

[Iroquois]

What I wan't to know is where did a 17 year old find a brand new Farrari?! His parents are fools for giving him a car like that because he certainly didn't get it himself.

I love to refer to the driving habits of my fellow Canucks when stuff like this comes about. Drinking and Driving is a serious problem up here. A lot of police officers like to take the FIDO (F#$% it, drive on) approach to that sort of thing. If you are charged with drinking and driving in Ontario, you loose your license for 90 days, you have to take a course in safe driving, and you have to have an ignition interlock installed on your car. An ignition interlock basically a breathalizer attatched to the car's ignition. It won't let you start the car unless you blow a zero. Apparently, a DWI is quite easy fight in court so a lot of people get away with it.

[Scottler]

Read the article, it was his father's.  Still shouldn't have been driving it though, especially drunk, especially with someone on his lap.  How stupid was this kid anyway?

[BFMF]

Stupid enough

[RichieB16]

It's hard to believe that someone can be stupid enough to take risks like that.  I can't imagine something much dumber than Drinking and Driving-nor something much easier to avoid.  

Personally, I feel that the drinking is what probably caused this accident.  Yes, the car was fast and everything-but you are all assuming the driver had no experience in it.  Since it belonged to his dad, maybe he had driven it quite often.  It sounds like some people feel he shouldn't be driving a fast car just because he is young.  I know a lot of people that age who have extensive experience with fast cars (who are from familes who don't have ferrari type cars), maybe he was one of them.