Facebook crash site condemned
Tuesday 28th October 2008, 3:00PM GMT.
YOUNG drivers in Jersey and Guernsey have been bragging about their high-speed car crashes on popular social networking site Facebook.
Over 250 members have joined the ‘Gsy & Jsy Car Crashes’ group, which encourages Channel Islanders to post pictures of their shunts along with a brief description of what happened. 86 pictures have been posted and accompanying comments on pictures taken in Jersey include boasts of exceeding 80 mph on roads in the Island. Police are now investigating.
A car with a major dent in the side panel receives the remark: ‘My Ford after hitting a tree sideways at 85 mph wheels still in opposite lock’, while another with rear end damage brags about ‘going around burger bar corner at 105 mph’. Another driver has clarified his friend’s statement attached to a picture of his ruined car that he was ‘losing it at 80 round Pier Road’ with the comment: ‘For me to be doing 80 it would need to be on the limiter, and I’m not that stupid, I was actually doing about 55-60 mph’.
Pictured: This picture has been posted on the Facebook site with the caption: ‘Not mine, but a mate in a lane who hit the back of a s**t truck’
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It’s about time these IDIOTS were taken off our roads! I hope the Police manage to find details of who have been driving these cars, and do the right thing and either FINE them or take away their licenses!
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So funny. Nothing like the stupid to admit driving offences on a public forum to assist the police investigate, prosecute, and jack up insurance premiums even higher.
Still it does make you wonder how many of the stories of high speed crashes are actually truth, or just exaggeration to boast in front of friends. I guess the police will find out.
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How very thoughtful for future defendants to go to the trouble of (1) admitting to driving the relevant vehicle and (2) admitting criminal offences (dangerous driving, criminal damage etc etc)in such a public way.
Prosecutions must now follow…..surely!
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To actually admit you are a dangerous driver to the world is stupid, but then again these are stupid people. I only hope that they don’t kill anyone while being stupid on the road. If they do, the book should be thrown at them.
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Please get these imbeciles OFF the roads! They are not only endangering themselves but everyone else on the roads. They are clearly lacking intelligence to blatently admit these offences so they should not be allowed the privaledge of having a driving license. Why wait until someone is killed?
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I would have thought the biker sentenced to 12 weeks in jail for bragging on Youtube
about speeding would be a lesson to posting incriminating evidence on the Internet!
I wonder how many of the posters on the Facebook group are contacting their lawyer in preparation for the court case??
Bragging on the Internet about breaking the Law DOES get you into trouble and can result in a prison sentence. Sleep well my young speeders – the next knock at your door might just be the Police!!!
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Can you see the police getting off their backsides to investigate? No, me neither.
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It just shows how childish some teenages are in Jersey. Maybe this is a warning sign and it is time to review the age to get a licence?
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It is not the Facebook site that needs condemning; it is providing an opportunity for them to confess. It is the irresponsible half-wits themselves, who think that driving wildly enough to crash, on a public road, is fun, that need condemnation.
It is quite a fundamental part of human nature, for young men to prove their courage to themselves and anyone else, who might be interested, by putting themselves into dangerous situations. It is unnecessarily ignorant and inconsiderate to recklessly endanger innocent others while they do so, however.
In an island with a thriving motorsport scene, those who want thrills and spills can get them quite easily, without making nuisances and menaces of themselves on the public roads.
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They can vote at 16
so they must be responsible humans ?
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Sara I think you’ll find most of the “youngsters” that have confessed in this group are over the age of 21
You can not stop teenagers over 17 year olds getting a licence just because some stupid boy racers (or drunk drivers) have publicised their crashing escapades… Facebook is a social website and unfrotunately people like bragging about damage done to their vehicles.
Speeding doesn’t cause half as many accidents as drunk drivers (and most drunk drivers I know are over the age of 30 and think they know best.)
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I can’t believe so many people are hoping for prosecutions. Each crash is investigated at the time it occurs so if there is enough evidence then I am sure these people have already been prosectued. If not, then people saying they were speeding isn’t going to change the outcome because they can just say they said they were doing such and such a speed just to show off and that it was actually lies. Someone saying oh I did this speed on facebook is not evidence to prosecute.
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Natural Selction will win out in the end. It always does!
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If these people are over 21 then perhaps it is time they behaved like it.
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Lucy… speeding might not cause as many accidents as drunk driving but the issue here is not just speeding, it is totally reckless driving. THAT is the biggest cause of accidents, and that is what these people are so admittedly guilty of. I really wish they could all be locked up with the keys thrown away before they take some innocent person’s life (if they haven’t already!)
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