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A tragic crashed happened just after 9pm last night near the intersection of High rd and Valand ave.

I read that just then, and wow it’s a total different impact when it happened so close to me.  It was a car full of 5 teenages aged 17 going out on a fun night. Clearly the night ended early for 3 of them, and the tragic night will go on for ever for the other two.  The drive along with 2 other passengers died upon impact and the other two survivors are being treated at the hospital for serious injuries.

The cause of the crash was currently being deemed as speeding. Which is the most common factor to our road toll. And looking at the situation, a nice BMW totaled(wrecked) and a bunch of teenagers, speeding is probably the first thing that pops into everyone’s head.

As a teenager myself, as a driver myself and as a person who loves the feeling of high speed. I’d have to say, maybe this crashed weren’t all factors of speed. There are many other external factors which can’t be controlled. Forexample five 17 year olds in a car excited to go out to the town, one split second of distraction could cause this accident. Though I can’t deny the fact that if they were slower, even the distraction happened, they wouldn’t slam on to a tree with that much force.

It’s never a good thing when you HAVE to learn from other people’s mistakes, but I guess we will have to learn a serious lesson from all of this. The limits set on the road is for a reason, follow it. (though they say there’s a 10% discrepancy hehe…

You know what we need in Perth? To reduce all the P platers death on the road, we need an affrodable racing track for anyone to just sign up to, and the younglings can just go there every so often to get the ‘need for speed’ out of their system! So they will drive safer on the roads.

RIP for the people invovled in the accidents.

Credit: WAToday.com.au