Daft sod, and all in that car are alive because it was a small lorry she hit, as evidenced by the pic, had it been a full sized lorry the result would have been a car full of dead people, and the poor bloody lorry driver having to live with that for all time.
Would it not be the impact speed of the vehicles concerned and not so much what the size of the truck was ■■?
One question, why" promising golfer" and not stupid idiot?
High spirits? ■■■■■■ up would of also sufficed.
Kind of underlines why youngsters are bludgeoned by such eye watering insurance prices. Itll always be that way realistically. Young uns still believe that theyre made out of rubber and magic, which doesnt help in the real world. So very fortunate no lives were lost. A good kid by all accounts, but a little time spent reflecting on how it might otherwise have ended wont do her any lasting harm.
quote … ‘a member at the prestigious St Enodoc Golf Club in Wadebridge’.
Will she be when she gets out, as they may not allow an ‘ex con’ to be a member 
And will she be scoring a ‘birdie’ within the next few weeks ? 
raymundo:
Would it not be the impact speed of the vehicles concerned and not so much what the size of the truck was ■■?
More the fact the lorry chassis would have been about a foot higher and with no give whatsover, the whole top half of the car would have been crushed.
raymundo:
Would it not be the impact speed of the vehicles concerned and not so much what the size of the truck was ■■?
It depends on the impact speed AND the size (more specifically, mass) of the vehicles concerned.
The heavier the vehicle, the more the damage inflicted on the other vehicle, as the heavier one has more mass, more inertia, and therefore won’t decelerate as fast as the lighter one.
What I don’t get, is why would you carry on being a passenger in the car, if throughout the day her driving had been dangerous?
Concretejim:
One question, why" promising golfer" and not stupid idiot?High spirits? ■■■■■■ up would of also sufficed.
It doesn’t sound as good to say “Promising Citizen” does it?
We’re all that until we put a foot wrong. There are many ways to fail as a citizen - being a donk and getting sent to jail is only a small facet of such ways to fail…
Just think though - there might come a time in the future when one only gets to be a “Promising 21st Birthday celebrator” when one has already become a “Promising Driver” first… 
Absolutely shocking indictment of …the shortage of good looking young birds and too many blokes and feminist ideas that lets the women do the driving.On that note I could have imagined the disappointment when I forgave her act of stupidity only for the four blokes to appear out of the wreckage. 
eagerbeaver:
What I don’t get, is why would you carry on being a passenger in the car, if throughout the day her driving had been dangerous?
Not making excuses, but when you are young you have no fear., and you tend to do some bloody stupid things in cars, I know I did.
I remember once when I was 18 being a back seat passenger in a car driven by my mate who was ■■■■■■■ and steered by my other mate in the passenger seat. He refused to sit in driver’s seat and actually drive because he did not have a licence and did not know how to use the gears 
Juddian:
raymundo:
Would it not be the impact speed of the vehicles concerned and not so much what the size of the truck was ■■?More the fact the lorry chassis would have been about a foot higher and with no give whatsover, the whole top half of the car would have been crushed.
Or the back of the car would have come up towards the trucks windscreen consequently the impact is between the front of the cab and the flimsy roof. What the yanks call a zero surviveability situation.
silly cow.
Impeccable character? Texting and dangerous driving with yourself and your friends lives tells a lot about their character to me… Impeccable is far from the word I’d use.
DJC:
Impeccable character? Texting and dangerous driving with yourself and your friends lives tells a lot about their character to me… Impeccable is far from the word I’d use.
As I said mate young and daft.
Stupid, ■■■■ dangerous and downright irresponsible granted, but young and daft.
Did you not do stupid things you would not dream of doing today? …I know I did 
robroy:
DJC:
Impeccable character? Texting and dangerous driving with yourself and your friends lives tells a lot about their character to me… Impeccable is far from the word I’d use.As I said mate young and daft.
Stupid, [zb] dangerous and downright irresponsible granted, but young and daft.
Did you not do stupid things you would not dream of doing today? …I know I did
I know what you’re saying, I was reasonably sensible but I sometimes drive down the roads that me and my mates rode our motorbikes down at what seems like some pretty mad speeds now, but thought nothing about it at the time, I was lucky more than once, but sadly for a few of them the luck ran out. 
Talking of speeds, and i’m admitting bugger all here, but there must be times when you’re slightly downhill and holding it on the exhauster at about 57 so you don’t trigger an overspeed and it seems like you’re flying along, then you remember the speeds we used to do in times gone by, mainly the 80s and early half of 90’s when power and vehicle type had advanced but before limiters were widespread.
Especially at night we’d do speeds that would have you locked up if you got caught now.
Different times and we were invincible, so we thought.
Juddian:
Talking of speeds, and i’m admitting bugger all here, but there must be times when you’re slightly downhill and holding it on the exhauster at about 57 so you don’t trigger an overspeed and it seems like you’re flying along, then you remember the speeds we used to do in times gone by, mainly the 80s and early half of 90’s when power and vehicle type had advanced but before limiters were widespread.
Especially at night we’d do speeds that would have you locked up if you got caught now.Different times and we were invincible, so we thought.
To be fair driving on the wrong side of the road head on into opposing traffic is unsafe at any speed.As opposed to running at the type of speeds in the right place at the right time with a truck that most/all of the English speaking world still rightly views as fine.IE silly plodding motorway truck limits are a typically silly EU thing.
I know CF its just it brings it home to you when you’re doing speed A at point B and remember the days when you’d be doing getting on for twice the speed at 2am at the same spot when your hair was either still there or a somewhat different colour.
To be fair those of us who might have got a move on tended to look after our motors, often be seen nipping round the trailer with a 9/16th ring whilst waiting to load, that sort of thing…but now in the days of one size fits all it will never be like that again.
Glad to have been there mind.