Two killed drag racing on I-95
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Two killed drag racing on I-95
This is why you never race on public roads 
. Although its a sad situation for the families of both youths but I am glad that non of the innocent by standers got hurt.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...icleid=1041804
. Although its a sad situation for the families of both youths but I am glad that non of the innocent by standers got hurt. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...icleid=1041804
Weaving alongside one another through traffic at high speeds, two drivers were killed yesterday when their cars collided, flipped over and slammed into a highway bridge abutment, disintegrating in a ball of flames and shutting down the highway.
State police said the collision happened in North Attleboro near Exit 4 on northbound Interstate 95 at about 11 a.m.
The cars collided in the right travel lane, left the highway, mounted an embankment and smashed into the concrete abutment of the Interstate 295 overpass before flipping over and bursting into flames.
State Sen. Steven C. Panagiotakos (D-Lowell) said he hopes a bill he filed earlier this year to jail convicted drag racers will become law within a year and help put the brakes on highway racers.
“The situation is that everyone on that stretch of road (yesterday) was at risk,” he said.
“Drag racing should be treated like operating under the influence, and judges should have the discretion to give a jail sentence.”
The bill proposes $1,000 fines and a maximum 2-year prison sentence for convicted drag racers. Currently, offenders are fined between $100 and $500 and have their licenses suspended for 30 days.
Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles data show citations for drag racing rose by 2.8 percent from 423, between January and October last year, to 435 in the same period this year.
The number of offenders under 18 decreased from 54 to 33 after the introduction of tougher junior operating license laws on March 31.
Police said both vehicles in yesterday’s horrific crash are registered in Rhode Island.
A medical examiner was called to the scene, where both drivers were pronounced dead. They were the only occupants of their cars, and their identities have been withheld until relatives are notified.
Police closed I-295 northbound and all but one lane on I-95 northbound for a few hours, causing traffic jams that stretched several miles.
In 2003, a drag race on the same stretch of I-95 put a 60-year-old woman in the hospital after her car was hit by an 18-year-old racer.
State police said the collision happened in North Attleboro near Exit 4 on northbound Interstate 95 at about 11 a.m.
The cars collided in the right travel lane, left the highway, mounted an embankment and smashed into the concrete abutment of the Interstate 295 overpass before flipping over and bursting into flames.
State Sen. Steven C. Panagiotakos (D-Lowell) said he hopes a bill he filed earlier this year to jail convicted drag racers will become law within a year and help put the brakes on highway racers.
“The situation is that everyone on that stretch of road (yesterday) was at risk,” he said.
“Drag racing should be treated like operating under the influence, and judges should have the discretion to give a jail sentence.”
The bill proposes $1,000 fines and a maximum 2-year prison sentence for convicted drag racers. Currently, offenders are fined between $100 and $500 and have their licenses suspended for 30 days.
Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles data show citations for drag racing rose by 2.8 percent from 423, between January and October last year, to 435 in the same period this year.
The number of offenders under 18 decreased from 54 to 33 after the introduction of tougher junior operating license laws on March 31.
Police said both vehicles in yesterday’s horrific crash are registered in Rhode Island.
A medical examiner was called to the scene, where both drivers were pronounced dead. They were the only occupants of their cars, and their identities have been withheld until relatives are notified.
Police closed I-295 northbound and all but one lane on I-95 northbound for a few hours, causing traffic jams that stretched several miles.
In 2003, a drag race on the same stretch of I-95 put a 60-year-old woman in the hospital after her car was hit by an 18-year-old racer.
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“Drag racing should be treated like operating under the influence, and judges should have the discretion to give a jail sentence.”
Being the mod on the Racing and Competition forum, I know that it will be a matter of time before one or more of the teens/early 20 somethings posting there will wind up in a local news story detailing a similar (or worse) fate.
I am a card carrying Republican but I DEFINITELY support State Sen. Steven C. Panagiotakos' position on this.
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First I am glad no innocent people were hurt. Though the articles information seems like BS, they certainly weren't "drag racing" they were street racing, drag racing has a defined begining and ending. Younger drivers lack the ability to achknowledge they lost, so they push the high speed envelope far beyond what is safe. I also think they are living in a pipe dream if they think fewer young americans are being charged with this type of crime due to "tougher junior operating laws," no movies promoting it have been released lately or they just aren't catching them. When I see a bone head driving like that on the road its never a grey haired guy in a volvo, its most often a younger guy(under 20) usually in a beat to shit turd.
Originally Posted by fuzzy02CLS
Not at 11am in traffic. That's just stupid.
Wanna race, go to a track. I'm just glad the only people killed were the drivers involved and not any innocent people....
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They said that even if the cars hadn't blown up into flames that rescue crews wouldn't have been able to rescue them from their cars because the metal was so mangled. I tried to figure out what kinds of cars they were but I couldn't even recognize them becasue they really were just a huge heap of burnt metal.
So stupid. Sad, but really stupid...
So stupid. Sad, but really stupid...
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Ah leave em. As long as no innocent people are hurt, that's probably the best form of population control. Plus nothing says "don't do stupid shit" like two burning heaps of metal in the middle of a highway.
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Wowzer!! Sounds mean, but they probably deserved it. You make your own choices in life, and that was definetly not a very good one. RIP... These racers make us look bad cause people tend to pre-judge us by the way our cars look. Only takes 1 to mess it up for us all. Sorry, that's my 
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Originally Posted by Tireguy
First I am glad no innocent people were hurt. Though the articles information seems like BS, they certainly weren't "drag racing" they were street racing, drag racing has a defined begining and ending. Younger drivers lack the ability to achknowledge they lost, so they push the high speed envelope far beyond what is safe. I also think they are living in a pipe dream if they think fewer young americans are being charged with this type of crime due to "tougher junior operating laws," no movies promoting it have been released lately or they just aren't catching them. When I see a bone head driving like that on the road its never a grey haired guy in a volvo, its most often a younger guy(under 20) usually in a beat to shit turd.
Speeding ticket 1st offense...90 day suspension, Driver Attitudinal Retraining Course & SCARR*, $500 reinstatement fee, Full Exam.
That's pretty serious. 1 ticket and you lose you license for 1/4 of a year, get a $500 license reinstatement fee, you have to take the "retraining course" and pay for it, then take the license test again, which you have to pay for again.
That's just for speeding, drag racing is all the same except you lose your license for a full year and pay a $1000 reinstatement fee.
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