at least they were'nt drifting

[spilner]

also from the Toronto Sun today…

"Did Racers Kill GTA Couple?

RICHMOND HILL – Katie Manchester, 7, woke up yesterday to the sight of police officers coming to tell her the horrible news that her parents had been killed by suspected street racers and wouldn’t be coming home.

“This little girl, thanks to these idiots, looked out the neighbour’s window and saw nothing but police cars,” family friend Kevin McKeage said. “These guys should be spending the rest of their lives behind bars.”

Rob Manchester, 46, and wife Lisa, 43, had just left their daughter with the neighbours and were on their way to celebrate their 17th wedding anniversary Saturday night around 10 p.m.

They were barely 2 km from their home at Yonge St. and Stouffville Rd. when their Hyundai Accent was broadsided by one of two Hondas that police estimated were travelling about 150 km/h.

“It’s a huge, big, badass shock to everyone,” Vicki McKeage said. "They’re real nice people. No one would ever say a bad word about them.

“They’re real nice parents. Her dad was with that little girl every single day.”

Vicki said she’s known Lisa for 20 years, since the two were college students together.

Rob was a postal worker and Lisa worked for a construction company, she said.

Their daughter is being cared for by relatives, who are too upset to speak, Vicki said.

Their deaths come just two days after the federal government announced plans to make street racing a Criminal Code offence.

Street racing is currently dealt with under provision of the Highway Traffic Act in Ontario.

Nevertheless, the 18-year-old driver of the car which avoided the crash is charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death.

The 21-year-old who crashed into the victims’ car suffered hip and leg injuries. He’s in Sunnybrook hospital and charges are expected after his condition improves.

York traffic Sgt. Dave Mitchell said the Manchesters were turning left on to eastbound Stouffville Rd. from Yonge St., when two northbound cars, a Honda Civic and a Honda Del Sol, approached the intersection travelling along side each other at almost twice the 80 km/h speed limit.

SPEED A FACTOR

While York traffic investigators say speed was a factor in the deaths, they’re hesitant to say the two Hondas were racing until they speak to more witnesses.

Mitchell is now appealing for witnesses who may have seen the suspects’ vehicles south of Stouffville Rd. moments before the crash"

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damn…

[bing]

this might actually be a genuine case as opposed to self-serving propoganda.

in which case, lay it down on those drivers.

this would probably be one of the only incidents of the supposed 31 street racing related deaths since 99’ that involved actual modified cars too… all the ones in BC were just kids in their parents cars. The only reason i say they are modified is because a civic and a del sol cant go 150kph on younge st. unless they have some junk under the hood.

[duckJAI]

wow how ironic, and we were just talking about this. i guess maybe some people can retract their statement.

[Solarian]

@bing

The only reason i say they are modified is because a civic and a del sol cant go 150kph on younge st. unless they have some junk under the hood.

:lol: Binger 1: Honda Boys 0

[NiTeRiDeR]

Gotta love the media.

[240SXtacy]

vtec rules!

[shlammed]

the only problem is, who witnessed the hondas doing 150… because they didnt hit anyone and the people that died have no comment obviously… not trying to be an ass but they like to play it up to be alot out of nothing…

i could say someone else caused it and they were racing… to take the blame off of me… this is gay the honda guy will get off with it

-Matt

[shlammed]

and hondas rip apart very easily so you cant really speculate the speed they were going.,… lean on one and see if they dent…

-Matt

[Cal]

anyone think of this scenario:

Being the couple’s 17th anniversary, they proabaly had a few drinks. When the couple drove out onto Stoufville Rd, could it br possible that the driver of the Hyunday didn’t see the fast approaching Hondas? YES. I see this happening far too often, when cars making right hand turns out of intersections, either do ont even stop to look when the light is red, or they just get in their lane and hardely even accelerate.

So although there is almost no doubt that the Hondas were racing, there should also be an investigation on the part the couple caused in the accident.

[system]

@shlammed

the only problem is, who witnessed the hondas doing 150… because they didnt hit anyone and the people that died have no comment obviously… not trying to be an ass but they like to play it up to be alot out of nothing…

Crash investigators do a good job at estimating speed of impact through various pieces of evidence.
ie: To move a 2500lb corolla with 300lb of passengers 30ft, how fast would a 2200lb civic have to be travelling?

]there should also be an investigation on the part the couple caused in the accident.

I doubt that is going to happen.

[bing]

that wouldnt be new though would it.

drunk drivers GETTING hit…

its only news if they are doing the hitting

[Sasha_SG]

people talk like this dude tried to kill those people

“he was a nice man, she was a nice lady, they never did anythign wrong”

blah blah blah

ok no one is doubting that but FUCK stop talking about it like it was a murder on PURPOSE.

[Solarian]

Yea, that’s a thing I hate that happens everytime someone dies. The whole: ooh… he/she/they was/were such (a) nice person/people!
It’s such BS, I mean, they’re DEAD, you’re not gonna say they were a pair of assholes that drank themselves silly, gambled all their money away and sexually abused their kid. That’s why I find it so lame how everyone says how nice the dead person was, b/c even if they were the biggest prick in the world, they would’ve said the same thing.

[duckJAI]

i think the point is, street racers played the major role in the accident LEADING to the death of this couple. who cares about the other fkn shit the media says. theres a 7yr old girl without her parents. i think thats the biggest thing. lets think about the innocent victims shall we?

[spilner]

@got_boost_S13

anyone think of this scenario:

Being the couple’s 17th anniversary, they proabaly had a few drinks. When the couple drove out onto Stoufville Rd, could it br possible that the driver of the Hyunday didn’t see the fast approaching Hondas? YES. I see this happening far too often, when cars making right hand turns out of intersections, either do ont even stop to look when the light is red, or they just get in their lane and hardely even accelerate.

So although there is almost no doubt that the Hondas were racing, there should also be an investigation on the part the couple caused in the accident.

they were on the way out to dinner, they left the house a few minutes earlier. Yeah, the driver probably didnt look both ways or whatever because its hard to miss a loud red speeding car, but still. They shouldnt have been racing in such a busy place. I hate to say it but the victim probably wasnt the greatest driver in the world if he was indeed sober and didnt notice the oncoming cars.

[_M_aurice]

Stoufville and Yonge isn’t that busy… It’s just over 5min from my house and I see retards coming out of there all the time. No one looks, and no one does the speed limit.

Yo guy, my Honda, she boot…

[TorontoGT-R33]

@spilner

“It’s a huge, big, badass shock to everyone,” Vicki McKeage said.
"

She is refering to a Honda doing 150 kms/h right?

[cloudzero3]

[quote=“Toronto240sx”]

@spilner

“It’s a huge, big, badass shock to everyone,” Vicki McKeage said.
"

She is refering to a Honda doing 150 kms/h right?[/quote]

LOL :lol:

[swapsr20det]

How to you not hear 2 hondas with fart cans in the middle of the night?