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just wondering if anyone else saw the poor guy that hit the guard rail last night on the M1 coming back from mudgereebar about 11.15pm or there abouts was'nt looking at clock lol, i wanna know what happened he was beside this skyline then this dark blue commodore spun around:headspin:and hit the inner guard rail, amazing he didnt get t-boned aswell his car was wrecked tho, front end gone all over road, i think he was showing off beside a skyline ??? anyone know him or what happened????

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your worried about a commodore that crashed after trying to show off to a skyline? he was probably yelling shit out the window and not watching where he was driving :rolleyes:

no offence to any commodore drivers of course, but with the general attitude of some of them towards me on the road I wont lose any sleep tonight over it :)

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or he could have been just trying to happily cruise along with the rest of you, accidentally drop his ciggie on his leg and burn it, take his eye's off the road and write off his pride and joy which he's spent all his time and effort on. People who drive commodores are no different to us, they're car enthusiasts as well.

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or he could have been just trying to happily cruise along with the rest of you, accidentally drop his ciggie on his leg and burn it, take his eye's off the road and write off his pride and joy which he's spent all his time and effort on. People who drive commodores are no different to us, they're car enthusiasts as well.

If he was a car enthusiast, he wouldn't be smoking in his pride and joy :P

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or he could have been just trying to happily cruise along with the rest of you, accidentally drop his ciggie on his leg and burn it, take his eye's off the road and write off his pride and joy which he's spent all his time and effort on. People who drive commodores are no different to us, they're car enthusiasts as well.

I know what your saying but I was on the highway at the same time and I know what he was doing....

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or he could have been just trying to happily cruise along with the rest of you, accidentally drop his ciggie on his leg and burn it, take his eye's off the road and write off his pride and joy which he's spent all his time and effort on. People who drive commodores are no different to us, they're car enthusiasts as well.

Amen to that :cheers:

More likely some Skyline driver was next to him going VROOM *ptscht* and the Commo driver looked over and missed the 100kph to 0kph lockups that happen so frequently and took the option of bailing out to the side instead of arsing some other poor pricks car.

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Amen to that :cheers:

 

More likely some Skyline driver was next to him going VROOM *ptscht* and the Commo driver looked over and missed the 100kph to 0kph lockups that happen so frequently and took the option of bailing out to the side instead of arsing some other poor pricks car.

hmm no thats not what happend...but maybe some other time it is. I dont think its appropriate to exactly explain what happend but it was the m1, late on a saturday night and there were alot of cars out doing things other than driving normally....the commo was doing something to perhaps entice the skyline...then proceeded to do something other than drive safely, he lost controll and thats what happend...bad luck, i think thats the end of it.

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Bad luck? suck 5hit to the idiot, "...then proceeded to do something other than drive safely, he lost controll and thats what happend"yep ah, gotta be a commo driver, just curious, was it a vn?

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I have had "some" experience with the M1 Fun Club Matt :cheers:

not saying you havent, just trying to state what happend...without using to much detail, i think its obvious what happend and I cant say I feel sorry for him. If I crashed from doing the same thing then I wouldnt expect anyone to feel sorry for me. Its his own stupidity..bad luck, typical it was a commodore...if it was a skyline we would have seen a 7 o'clock special on the news

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So why is it some big secret as to what he/she was actually doing at the time?. It's not like it is classified information. Or is it?

because we're not allowed to talk about it on the forums as what he was doing illegal, i think you know what happend though...its nto to hard to figure out lol :(

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But the person who did it does not belong to SAU Qld nor is the owner of this forum legally responsible for what some tosser does on the road.

So there is no reason why you can't tell, if anything it is educational as it explains what not to do.

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