Shocking footage shows car racing through suburban roads at 122mph – before ‘head-on taxi crash’ that killed 3 teens & man
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/car-racing-suburban-roads-bolton-crash-5HjdQdg_2/
Posted by StGuthlac2025
Shocking footage shows car racing through suburban roads at 122mph – before ‘head-on taxi crash’ that killed 3 teens & man
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/car-racing-suburban-roads-bolton-crash-5HjdQdg_2/
Posted by StGuthlac2025
24 Comments
I think we all knew what the story was going to be when it first broke, didn’t we?
This is why I will never feel sorry for those people who crash and kill themself due to excessive speeding and honestly they deserve it.
It’s no different to waving a gun around in public. One day your finger will slip and you’ll kill someone.
My condolences to the taxi driver’s family.
Good riddance to the ones that caused it.
Absolutely shocking.
That poor taxi driver and his passengers as well.
Staggeringly stupid behaviour and now they’re mostly dead.
No doubt we’ll have pictures of these people who caused the accident with angel wings photoshopped on them, with people telling us they were ‘the life and soul of the party’ and ‘they never hurt a fly’
Screw these kids.
I’m sure we’ll be told they were just good boys rushing to look after their nan
I mean seems in this case the passengers were willing participants but from personal experience never get in a car with someone unless you know how they drive, I once got a lift with someone from work I’d never been in a car with before, who decided he wanted to show off and was hitting 80mph+ on narrow residential streets. My life was at the mercy of some idiot trying act cool. Bear in mind how you can just be minding your own business and be assassinated by someone’s stupidity at any moment.
I’d like to see the statistics on this kind of driving broken down by community. I think everyone can see a link, but nobody is acknowledging it.
Poor taxi driver. I’m sure the Seat driver is looking up at us
Mandatory speed limiters on cars when? I don’t see any valid reason to allow completely unrestricted acceleration when a vehicle is being driven on public roads. It would also make situations where a driver has a medical episode far less potentially catastrophic.
This is what the roads of bradford are like most nights. The laws and policing simply aren’t working.
Poor headline – this was filmed 24 hours before the crash and it doesn’t say by whom. Saying that, I believe they were most likely driving in the same manner when they killed the taxi driver.
The government is consulting on a mandatory 6 month gap between theory and practical tests. They should go further and fill the six months with mandatory courses on road safety. Four families crushed by one persons ego and lack of skill.
A lot of people saying things like “Good riddance to the people who caused it” “I don’t feel sorry for them”
Just shows the lack of empathy beginning to spread across the planet.
Probably due to the amount of time people spend on the internet.
Making a mistake shouldn’t result in death and if so, shouldn’t be used by people on the internet to act like they weren’t humans with families.
I can guarantee you wouldn’t walk upto their grieving mum and say “good riddance” so why do people feel like that’s appropriate on the internet?
No tears shed for them but a shame they had to take an innocent life.
To save you a click the video was taken and posted online 24 hours before the incident happened.
When my Dad was in the hospital at 56 years old he was in intensive care, he’d had a stroke and it took 8 hours to transfer him to a hospital who could deal with the brain bleed he’d had.
He was in there with a 23 year old who had been on his phone doing 80mph round a roundabout, it was a very bad crash.
I had to sit in the waiting room with that guys family saying “he’d never do that” I lived around the corner from where it happened, I know people who witnessed it. He, was driving dangerously.
The 23 year old survived.
My Dad spent two weeks dying, he left behind my 19 year old sister who is now an orphan (mum left when she was 6).
Some people do not deserve a license, this stuff angers me so much. It’s not just you in the world, innocent people get caught up in this stupidity.
Guarantee the police found empty laughing gas canisters in their car.
I live in Birmingham, all the noise about how our cities are violent sharia hellscapes is just nonsense. My area has quite a high Muslim population, genuinely lovely neighbours who helped us out a few times. It’s safe and friendly 99% of the time.
The only thing about living in Birmingham that makes me genuinely and often scared for my safety is the driving.
I live in a nice, suburban bit but several nights a week you will have young kids driving like fucking lunatics at very high speeds down my road. Two teenagers wrote off my sons car and their own uninsured car by crashing into it when it was parked. Every day I’ll see some mad undertaking, overtaking, ignoring lights etc. We need much, much better enforcement of the traffic laws.
GPS speed limiters on all new cars.
This problem will be gone in 10 years.
The fact is it even physically possible is drive 122mph on a residential street would imply something very wrong to me.
Will this lead any measures like traffic calming to prevent such incidents in the future? I doubt it.
Like with nearly all these incidents, blame the people involved, clear the wreckage & carry on as normal, after all dickheads exist right?
i live in a small english village and people regularly do 80-90 mph on our narrow roads nuisance vehicles r a big problem
The only tragedy here is the innocent taxi driver who paid the price for their reckless behavior.
I’ll hold my hands up to doing 120+mph on an empty 4 lane motorway at 3am, and it was scary fast.
Wigan Rd, where this crash happened, is a normal single lane each-way road that would still be busy at midnight on a Saturday, that speed is utterly ridiculous to do. Driver has murdered 3 others, killed himself and injured several more. Hope its hot where he is.
Shouldn’t be allowed passengers if you’ve just passed your test., this happens all too often.