Another One Bites The Dust

[Chris_R33GTSt]

Driving back from Bathurst this morning about 1am, eastbound on Warringah Rd at the Roseville bridge (Forrestville, Sydney) we came past a Silver S2 R33 GTSt with 3 spoke chrome mags that had spun out and collected the concrete barrier and deposited half of its front end on the road. There were ambos at the scene and about 3-4 cop cars with cops everywhere.

Not sure if the driver was okay or not, as we didnt feel like stopping and talking to about 20 cops...

Looks like a case of driver error as there was no one else on the road at the time.

Edited February 12, 2007 by Chris_R33GTSt

[Kinks]

shame about the skyline.

[scathing]

Wasn't it bucketing down that night?

That bridge is not the best designed thing in the world. You can "inadvertently" pick up so much speed since it runs downhill from both directions for quite some time, and its tempting to let it roll to those speeds given the width of the bridge and the visibility it affords.

But hit some of those metal expansion joints in the wet at speed with some steering attitude on (which you'll have since the bridge curves) and you've got a recipe for a sudden and unexpected sideways event.

Still, you drive to the conditions and so I'm not saying its not driver error. I'm just saying that its not the kind of place where you'd look and thing "How the hell did you do that there you fool?" Its more a case of "Why the hell did you go that fast there you fool?"

[Chris_R33GTSt]

The dude was half way up the last section of hill, about 200m before the traffic lights. I would hazard a guess that this was another Initial D fan trying to be Takumi. It is sad to see how many Skylines are getting written off at the moment, just on the North Shore in Sydney. I bought my Skyline because its got major potential and has the balls to tow my bike trailer. Not many other sports cars could do that. Now I don't know about you guys, but there is something about a wet road in a heavy rain storm at 1am, driving a high powered RWD car that limits my speed to the point where I wont become another fatality.