Slow Down!
Is it just me or is everyone still reeling from the tragic accident on Karawatha Drive Mountain Creek in the early hours of Saturday morning?
Three young people are dead another is fighting for her life in hospital.
18 year old Travis Guerin was driving the V8 statesman, his friend, who owned the car Joel Doyle was in the passenger seat. 15 year old Nakita Deacon, a student at Nambour High was the third person to die.
Brooke Pratt, a year 11 student at Mountain Creek High remains in an induced coma at Royal Brisbane Hospital.
What a tragic waste, a split second decision to drive too fast.
There’s been a spate of teen deaths on the roads in recent months, all of them in the early hours of the morning.
I know it’s what these kids do – they drive around all night. They stop at Mooloolaba for a while, and then organise to meet in some new location with nothing better to do in between than drive around.
But there is no co-incidence in the statistics. A teenager is a lot safer in a vehicle before midnight than they are afterwards.
The state government is planning to fast track new laws to protect teen drivers but we’ve said it a million times before, there’s nothing the government can do to protect you from yourself.
Nothing can bring these kids back. We can only pray that their deaths will slow their mates down. A report in the Sunshine Coast Daily this morning says mourners at the site yesterday were doing burn outs as they drove away.
Pay attention kids! Speed kills, it’s as simple as that. Peter Brock died driving too fast and I hate to point it out, but he was a hell of a lot better driver than you are.
And if you’re too young to even have a licence, you’d better think twice, three times, please God maybe four times, before you get in a car after midnight.
Three young people are dead another is fighting for her life in hospital.
18 year old Travis Guerin was driving the V8 statesman, his friend, who owned the car Joel Doyle was in the passenger seat. 15 year old Nakita Deacon, a student at Nambour High was the third person to die.
Brooke Pratt, a year 11 student at Mountain Creek High remains in an induced coma at Royal Brisbane Hospital.
What a tragic waste, a split second decision to drive too fast.
There’s been a spate of teen deaths on the roads in recent months, all of them in the early hours of the morning.
I know it’s what these kids do – they drive around all night. They stop at Mooloolaba for a while, and then organise to meet in some new location with nothing better to do in between than drive around.
But there is no co-incidence in the statistics. A teenager is a lot safer in a vehicle before midnight than they are afterwards.
The state government is planning to fast track new laws to protect teen drivers but we’ve said it a million times before, there’s nothing the government can do to protect you from yourself.
Nothing can bring these kids back. We can only pray that their deaths will slow their mates down. A report in the Sunshine Coast Daily this morning says mourners at the site yesterday were doing burn outs as they drove away.
Pay attention kids! Speed kills, it’s as simple as that. Peter Brock died driving too fast and I hate to point it out, but he was a hell of a lot better driver than you are.
And if you’re too young to even have a licence, you’d better think twice, three times, please God maybe four times, before you get in a car after midnight.
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This is an e-mail thats been circulating the net, I thought maybe you might wish to hear it.
Thanks.
Isn’t it so surreal that normal day people become more well known from their deaths then they ever were when they were alive?
Four teenagers who didn’t mean much to the world, but meant the world to their friends and family, are now the most spoken of teenagers in Queensland, Australia after their car wrapped itself around a tree at high speed.
Only one of the four survived and is now in the Royal Brisbane hospital in a critical condition.
Their names are now on every paper, in the news headlines and spoken in most suburban houses.
Unfortunately, although their deaths have impacted greatly on the community, the message is still not sinking in.
People need to look at this and realise just what the cost of speeding is.
Speed kills.
Please, don’t let their deaths be in vain. Please slow down.
I sent this to you because I want you to know that I care about you and I wish for your safety. Please send it onto your loved ones as well, and hope they get the message from it.
Hopefully you will too. Please slow down, I don’t want to have to read your name in the news headlines.
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