Suffers from peterpan syndrome
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crim...ru-hit-and-run
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/new...al-hit-and-run
So glad this poor Kids "Killer" has been caught(Well done NZ Police)
-I hope the court shows this guy as much sympathy as he showed Thomas that night.
Ride safe everyone
When Life thows me a curve
...I lean into it!
Forum whore
what part did the skyline driver play then??
Suffers from peterpan syndrome
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/articl...0Politics,nrhl
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10645305
The "off duty" Truck driver was driving the skyline, he Hit thomas in fog and dragged him and his bike down the road a ways.
Once he realized.....he drove off!...and left the kid to die on the road!, then the piece of s%%t! torched the skyline to try and hide the evidence.
Thomas was sadly found dead beside his mangled bike on the road @ approx 4am by another Truck driver
-the conditions were very foggy and limited visibility may have attributed to the crash, but there is no excuse for driving off and trying to cover it up!
....poor kid didnt stand a chance
When Life thows me a curve
...I lean into it!
Hardcore Biker
good to see they got the prick. there are no excuses for that kind of thing I hope the judge is hard on him.
Mad nagging bitch!
Well, they have got him and that is all good...lets hope they actually make him serve a decent sentence for the despicable cowardly act that he did.
Diarrhoea is hereditary - it runs in your jeans
If my nose was running money, I'd blow it all on you...
Forum whore
A 35-year-old Timaru truck driver has been charged in relation to a fatal hit-and-run in Oamaru last month...Originally Posted by willytheekid
...Last month police arrested the driver of a Nissan Skyline, a 25 year-old Invercargil man, in relation to the same death.
According to this http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/new...al-hit-and-run it is two different drivers involved.
Forum whore
It was two different drivers in two different vehicles.
Forum whore
As a motorcyclist I would be more concerned about keeping myself safe than demanding "justice" should it all go wrong.
Forum whore
The difference is you are still alive. Through no apparent fault of his own (although that isn't confirmed yet) this lad is dead. Justice is all he has left. But for the rest of us, you are right.
Hardcore Biker
Excellent work by the police in pursuing some justice for the family. Hopefully it will equate to an appropriate sentence rather than the "10 months home dentention and 9 months suspension of licence" response we seem to see. I have police friends who despair of watching their hard work be undermined by soft judges.
"Age and treachery will triumph over youth and skill"
Forum whore
But even fault and who is to blame by the letter of the law is of secondary importance to keeping yourself alive.
Travelling on the roads at night down this way in wintertime is more of a risk. Frost and fog is common and to be expected at night in the south in wintertime. To minimise risk you choose your travel times to be in more favourable conditions... like making your journey in the early evening the night before rather than travelling early the next morning.
Can remember staying at girlfriend's flat in Dunedin when I was younger while working on a farm 50km out of town. It was wintertime and I was setting off to ride back to the farm on Sunday evening for work Monday morning. The girlfriend wanted me to stay the night and ride back to work early in the morning. I refused and left that evening as there would be no frost yet or heavy fog. A safer time to travel that puts the odds more in your favour rather than against you. Incidentally she and her sister had a car accident a few weeks later while trying to travel from Dunedin to Gore early one morning on a frosty road.
Yes it can be an inconvenience to plan your journeys around mother nature... but they are the kind of things you need to think about if you are indeed taking your safety and your riding seriously.
I was at work the night of the unfortunate Oamaru accident and we had millions of dollars worth of machinery and personnel parked up and idle because of the heavy fog that night. An inconvenience, yes - but operating in such conditions increases the chance of an incident.
No amount of remorse and attributing blame afterwards will bring someone back to life. The trick is to think about possible outcomes and do something about it before things go wrong.
Forum whore
I understand all that, I've been riding for over 20yrs now in all conditions. However the original comment was in relation to the death of this rider. No amount of anything will change that. But it is important that the driver face the consequences of his actions, I'm sure that much is obvious.
Forum whore
Of course.
But as usual we have a lynch mob here laying blame on other road users... like they are responsible for everything.
They would be better off seeing what they could learn from such an incident to help avoid it happening to others.
Forum whore
Most definitely. I 100% agree that WE are responsible for OUR own fate in all things in life, especially our safety on the road as motorcyclists. Blaming others acheives nothing, even if you are legitmately wronged, you need to work out why you got into that situation and how you can avoid it or better deal with it in the future.
Hopefully other riders realise that regardless of how this lad died there is lessons to be learnt.
Forum whore
Great news that they caught the guy - there is no excuse for a hit and run - none at all.
That must be so hard for the family to cope with - the fact that he was left there alone to die.
He may have died anyway but how cowardly to run away and leave him.
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