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Man trapped under car in crash tradesman has been seriously injured after he was pinned under a car driven by an alleged hoon, which spun out of control on a suburban street in Melbourne's north west. The victim, in his forties, was building a fence at the Rokewood Crescent home, in Meadow Heights, when a p-plate driver lost control. The Nissan Skyline mounted the footpath and slammed into the man, pinning him between the car and a truck parked on the driveway. Emergency crews spent 45 minutes working to free the man in a delicate rescue operation. Witnesses have told 7News the driver was performing burnouts and speeding along the road before losing control of the car. Fuel tankers pulled after explosion Monster truck crash kills eight Man killed trying to retrieve object from train tracks Driver slams into fence in pursuit Sergeant Dean Pickering said the 19-year-old p-plater was breaking the law simply by getting behind the wheel. "It's a high-powered car. It's a car that's banned for probationary drivers. It's a fast car and there's no doubt in the world, it's not appropriate for somebody that's still learning to drive," he said. Sgt Pickering said police had received complaints about a car being driven erratically in the area before the crash. "At about that time, we've had reports of a Nissan Skyline being driven fairly erratically through the area. "You can see what's happened...the car has mounted the footpath, has ended up through the front of this house, has hit the fence where this fellow was working. Unfortunately, he's been embedded under the car." The victim was taken to the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition suffering from pelvic and spinal injuries. P-plate driver arrested at the scene of a crash in Meadow Heights. Photo: 7NewsSgt Pickering slammed the stupidity of the driver, saying this type of behaviour is 'frustrating' and puts lives at risk. "This is the sort of stuff that's really frustrating for us. It's not an accident, it's someone's behaviour that has caused something like this to happen," he said. The 19-year-old driver, who escaped unharmed, is in police custody. http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/19287171/man-trapped-under-car-in-crash/

Tips for new R34 Hey fellas, New to the forums here, so hopefully what I'm asking isn't considered a joke. Getting my red P-plates next year in Victoria and was planning on buying an R34 GT Coupe (due to Vic ban on turbos). I was wondering if I could get some insight into what it's like driving a skyline on Red Ps (Cops/harassment maybe?). I'm mainly driving the r34 to uni and back, maybe track in the future during the summer breaks, would the GT be a nice car for it? Also I've heard the GT is extremely slow, just how slow is it? Thanks

Okay so first off hello. I'd like to begin this Build buy giving you a little history, before this I owned a 99 Subaru Forester, which started fairly stock N/A manual. The motor blew In that so I bought a wrx sti halfcut and transplanted that, plus a whole lot more. I then Sold that an purchased myself a very rough N/A R32 RB20DE Neo Had some nice extras (Genuine Nardi, Factory Cupholders) I then got into my first car accident and destroyed it. The reason theres no "Before" shot of this beauty is because I did not have the time to take one before totalling the poor thing. But it wasn't all bad because I got a fairly generous insurance payout for it, and purchased my current vehicle. A 1992 R32 Gts-t, This originally was one of the few automatic rb25de r32's to come out but has been converted since. And so we begin the build. The day I got her (minus strut brace) - had some ugly sideskirts and wheels straight out of Need for Speed. But there were big plans ahead. First had to make a Pod box to hide the filter. Next up decided to remove the sound deadening from the backseats, and boot (as it already was missing boot interior why not go the whole 9 yards?) Next up was interior, as it was already in pretty good shape I decided to try and keep it fairly simple. Got myself a sparco steering wheel, sparco quick release, nrg short boss kit along with a sparco shifter. I also change the ugly green and white dash cluster back to the original grey with purple led's I did the aircon unit and rest of the din area while I was at it all in purple. Also picked up some gtr seats which needed some fixing for faily cheap so sewed them up and put them in, much better! Moving onto the exterior I had big plans, slowly starting to gather all of the bolt on bits and pieces I'd be adding. This included the following: n1 vents for the gtr front bar gtr grill gtr bonnet with n1 lip n1 sideskirts gtr overfenders trust rear pods dmax roof wing dmax boot wing Slowly but surely I got it all together and began trimming up the fibreglass pieces and text fitting them. Got myself some new pipes made up and got rid of the cannon, (To Be Continued)