http://www.fredericknewspost.c...75073

Whats amazing is the after accident pictures. It looks like you could walk away from the Impreza, the occupant compartment looks 100 percent intact compared to the Avalon. Yikes.

The rest of the pics can be found here
http://www.carrollmanorfire.co....html

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kid deserves to be dead

Agreed. Unfortunately the only one dead is the innocent 60 year old grandmother in the Avalon.

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kid deserves to be dead too bad the other lady didnt make it Modified by ninja_gaiden at 2:41 PM 5-17-2008

Rather have him suffering with life threating injurys

Which is strange. How can one car hit fully and only hit part of the front of the other car? That doesn't make sense.

"Head on" crashes are rarely completely square impacts. The Subaru was probably a bit "out of control" at impact, resulting in some odd angle. How else can you explain the Subaru's mainly across the front but heavier on the passenger side damage to what appears to be just driver side damage to the Toyota. I do wonder why we only get a pic of the damaged side of the Toyota......

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Alcohol was not a factor in the crash.

Never crossed my mind. I figured they would have mentioned alcohol or drug impairment if that was the case. Why do they have to mention that?

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"Street racing is becoming a major problem," Wise said. "If nothing is done, there will be much more bloodshed."

What the heck does street racing have to do with some idiot driving way too fast to show off his ride and loosing control? People sure don't have to be street racers to do that.

Journalism standard practice. The first question in most people's mind when told of an accident, particularly a fatal one where one driver is clearly at fault, is "was he/she drunk?"

X2. I don't mind if people take themselves out by being brainless and doing stupid things, but when you take someone else out, I have no respect for the rest of the life you are going to lead.

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Gue will never forget three weeks later when he saw the bird feeder again.

Yeah, telling an anecdote about a bird feeder is the best way to express the sadness this guy has for the loss of his mother.

Why else would he soup up his car? (reference to a previous officer's comments in another case)

The shame is he probably only will serve those 18 months.

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This is a sad story, and the journalists make it so painful to read.. Score +1 to another "Street Racing" label being thrown at a typical morans who would have been just as dangerous in a 64 Fairlane or a 99 Metro..

The author was simply relaying what the family member said. If the family member had a more touching or effecitve way of expressing his grief, you can bet your TCL username and password the journalist would have picked it over the birdfeeder thing.

And for the record, it was the family, NOT the journalist, that invoked the term "street racing".

..and the reporter chooses which sound bites to put in their story.

journalists and reporters blow 97 percent of the time. i made that number up. it's probably higher.

Lazy reporting is when reporters cater to existing social stereotypes.

SUV = bad fuel economy. Let's show a big domestic SUV in the background.
Small cars = good fuel economy. Let's show an import economy car in the background.
Ford = fire and recall.
Import = innovative.
Speed related crash = street racing.
Alcohol in driver's blood = evil person that deserves to be stoned to death regardless of the crash information and even if their driving actions were no worse than most drivers, or even better than many.

etc.

Guilty until proven innocent, huh? That sucks.

That's what I can't get over. It's one thing for a 16 year old to be utterly stupid (even though that doesn't excuse them from killing others), but for a 29 year old? He deserves to go away for the full 10 years. 18 months locked up and 18 months home confinement isn't going to teach that idiot anything.

Stereotypical no?

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Thank your politicians that force mandatory minimums for drug related crimes while simultaneously refusing to give funding for added prisons. The results are over crowded prisons full of drug related while people that really hurt or killed somebody else get off with short sentences.

Indeed....this is a homicide plain and simple. Ten sounds good to me.

Bill OReilly goes psycho youtube.com/watch?v=Brw-n1hKfg
Blinky &The Blowman youtube.com/watch?v=e_s3TiOLAcI

What about this one (a local story).

http://www.wate.com/Global/story.asp?S=8204631

Guy was sleeping on that couch (inside the home) when run over by the Dr's truck. Dude got one year prison time.

Yeah, after 25, every man should trade in his sports car for a beige Camcord and go no more than 5 mph over the speed limit. It's a good thing cars like the Corvette, 911's and GT-R are marketed to teenagers, or they wouldn't sell a single car to us speed averse near 30-somethings.

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Now that would be sad.

The guy was going 3x the speed limit trying to show off to his coworker. There's no excuse for that kind of retardedness unless you're a 16 year old new driver.

every time I see a Subaru crash I want an Impreza more and more.. just for the safety.

To prevent such retardation, they should put 80 mph speed limiters on all cars, along with H-rated tires.

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