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    Default yet another death on the roads

    A5 near atherstone

    one of our mechnics ran over 2 lads on a scooter in a 30ton truck,

    scooter come flying out of a t junction on to a 50mph, no lights, kids not got helmets, they bounced off a UPS truck and under the wheels of my mate, 1 was killed instently, 1 was wrapped around the rear twin axel, not suspected to live,


    i was traveling about 2mins behind comming from the ups truck direction,


    im really thinking of handing my license back in, iv seen a body count of 6 now, just this year on the roads

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    feck sorry to hear that pal not nice.

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    The roads are getting more cars every year its going to get worse ,sorry to hear it!

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    not good mate i had some idiot in a chicken chaser pull out on me earlier in the wet with not fecking rear light!!
    " If you aint breaking you aint racing! "

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    That terrible mate hope you and your friend are ok

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    i was fine untill the body bag come out

    now i dont feel right

    no idea about ben but he looks ****ed

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    **** sorry to hear that mate

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    Just remind your mate it wasn't his fault, the lads on the scooter obviously didn't care much for other road users and didn't think of the consequences before riding with no helmet and not stopping/looking at a junction, they'd still be alive if they if they hadn't been so stupid.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wwmnw View Post
    Just remind your mate it wasn't his fault, the lads on the scooter obviously didn't care much for other road users and didn't think of the consequences before riding with no helmet and not stopping/looking at a junction, they'd still be alive if they if they hadn't been so stupid.
    Well said mate.

    hope your mate gets through it all mate

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    road due to re open 2.45am crash happened about 7.30pm

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