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hey guys i heard tonight that on saturday night a guy from wollongong crashed his r33 skyline (practicially tearing it in half) and badly injuring himself in the process. I am unsure of the passenger's condition

One thing here is for certain, and that is speed. It appears from what i was told that he must have been going extremely fast to basically tear the car apart (i was told "the front of the car was now in the back of the car").

More sad news for us skyline, and high performance car, drivers will no doubt result again. The driver was in his early 20's.

I have heard small things from people about it, but am curious if anyone else knows more as i did not know the driver, but do know it was a sky blue coloured r33 gts25t...

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Thats not good news at all...Where did this happen in the Gong?? (Used to live there 6 months ago) I knew of a Sky Blue 33 GTR down there but that was some time ago. IMHO and you may hate me saying this,but P platers (assume by his age) should not have high performance cars at their disposal. Slow down people!!! Let's hope the injuries are not as bad as you have been told....

Apparently it happened somewhere around the exit/entry ramp to the F6 freeway around Burger King near Figtree/West Wollongong...or so i was told by the people who informed me about the accident. I have not heard any more about it however excpet that i the driver has possibly broken their back.

TopKart R33, his age is about 23-24, so i guess he wasnt a p-plater.

Apparently it happened somewhere around the exit/entry ramp to the F6 freeway around Burger King near Figtree/West Wollongong...or so i was told by the people who informed me about the accident. I have not heard any more about it however excpet that i the driver has possibly broken their back.

TopKart R33, his age is about 23-24, so i guess he wasnt a p-plater.

Not the sort of places you need to be speeding at....the off ramp to the BK is very narrow so any impact there would have been major. Ok so he may have not been a P-plater but still a stupid thing to be doing in areas like that. I once saw a person trying to head into that off ramp the wrong way, now imagine if you were speeding onto that exit??? I see alot of crazy drivers on the roads as i spend 8hrs a day at least on them. The faster you go the less time you have to react to the unexpected. JMHO :thumbsup:

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