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Originally posted by Martin Scroatman View PostBansturbator!
I think they look rather good fun as a matter of fact.
Very useful for farmers too.
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Originally posted by SlipTheJab View Post+1 Quad bikes are a dangerous nuisance and should be banned from public roads.
I think they look rather good fun as a matter of fact.
Very useful for farmers too.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostIt's not about deserving. But stupidity is often fatal.
And sometimes that reason is stupidity.
But it is still a huge shame.
And the families of those left behind will do a lot of suffering.
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Originally posted by ClothCap View PostI think that there was a strong hint that the car may have been racing with the Quad bike, which may change things slightly.
A local farmer said he had heard loud car revving and tyre squealing noises for an hour or two before the incident, louder he said than the typical noise made by boy racers that regularly used that stretch of road.
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Originally posted by northernladuk View PostTBH I'd be questioning the actions of a 21 and 22 year old in a 350Z. That's a lot of car for that age. They can be bought so cheaply now. Mine must be worth 6k tops now.
I'd be interested to see where a 22 year old got insurance for it though. Mine isn't cheap and I had to hunt around for a decent one.
I can't believe for one minute their driving wasn't the major cause of the accident however many people were on the quad.
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TBH I'd be questioning the actions of a 21 and 22 year old in a 350Z. That's a lot of car for that age. They can be bought so cheaply now. Mine must be worth 6k tops now.
I'd be interested to see where a 22 year old got insurance for it though. Mine isn't cheap and I had to hunt around for a decent one.
I can't believe for one minute their driving wasn't the major cause of the accident however many people were on the quad.
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostIt's not about deserving. But stupidity is often fatal.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostSo the riders even if they were pootling along at 5 miles an hour deserved to die?
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostWell, that's not what I said, and I rather suspect you know that.
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Quad bikes are great to ride, as a one-person, off-road machine. You do have to treat them with respect though - you're still as unprotected as you are on a motorbike, arguably more so with the back wheels happy to run you over if you come off sideways.
Kids being dicks would hopefully lead to a verdict of misadventure.
If it's not a four-seater quad (which would make it more like the vehicle the Banana Splits used to zoom around in) then logic dictates that they were on the road illegally.
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Originally posted by vwdan View PostI'm not quite sure what you're saying, but I was talking about the car?
Anyway, with regards to the quadbike - it's near enough outright stated that the quad bike itself was unregistered. And, unless it was a somewhat rare 4 seater quadbike (Which I've literally never seen on a road and probably would be better described for witnesses - as they tend to have a roof etc), it's almost certainly going to have been overloaded. Given that quad bikes are inherently unstable (They're great fun, but are genuinely dangerous) then the fact it was being ridden at all puts them into a dangerous category.
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Originally posted by DodgyAgent View PostThere may have been 4 people on a quad bike but does it mean that they were actually driving dangerously?. it is amazing how the swivel eyed judgemental immediately jump to conclusions without seeing any evidence
Anyway, with regards to the quadbike - it's near enough outright stated that the quad bike itself was unregistered. And, unless it was a somewhat rare 4 seater quadbike (Which I've literally never seen on a road and probably would be better described for witnesses - as they tend to have a roof etc), it's almost certainly going to have been overloaded. Given that quad bikes are inherently unstable (They're great fun, but are genuinely dangerous) then the fact it was being ridden at all puts them into a dangerous category.
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