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Mon Nov 29, 2004 8:13 pm
Hi Guys,
for those that want to know ... a "P" Plater is a provisional licence holder. In Australia when you first get your licence you get a learners permit which allows you to drive the car with the accompianment (sp) of an open licence holder so you can learn the ropes and then go to sit for your provisional licence. The provisional licence once attained allows you to drive without being accompanied by an open licence holder but you are on a limited points period. Ususally consisting of 4 points (speeding 30KMph over the speed limit will wipe this effectively) if you lose your points in this period your licence will be suspended for 6 months. An Open licence holder gets 12 points.
Now to the crash in hand, the car was an absolute beast with 400awkw (700hp at all four wheels) and was one of Australia's best known GTR's.
The driver took the car without permission whilst his father was oversea's (he was never allowed to drive it even when his father was home anyway) The car was airborne for about 20 metres when it hit the pole at just under 200kmph.
Extreme stupidity from all involved.
A couple of things, as has already been mentioned, is the 33 year old with 15 year old is sick and the tragedy could have been averted if the police had done their job and thrown his arse in jail for being a paedephile. It is not the norm in this country for that kind of stuff to go on and if it had been my daughter, he would have died a couple of years ago when he first met her.
I think at the end of the day, they were all taken out of the "gene pool" for a reason.
I do feel for their respective families and especially for the father of the driver as he basically created the weapon his son killed himself and others with.
my 2cents