Just seen the video. The RR looks to be travelling at Mach 1.
And the Met initially managed to get the sex of Tesla person wrong. Not sure how one manages that, unless everybody there has been brainwashed by TRAs.
Electric cars are very heavy due to the batteries, which is reflected in the amount of damage and injuries to others they cause in accidents.
I believe that Teslas have CCTV that runs all the time, including when the car is parked up. A lot of crims don't realise that. As with most modern cars they also have data logging systems that track the car's position and record the driver's every input.
It should be fairly easy to work out what has happened here.
The CCTV when parked just picks up people who stop walking past so my friend initially had lots of images of people walking past going "ooh looks it's one of those Teslas".
The Tesla was innocently being charged about 10 feet below street level. The RR is literally doing a barell roll as it punches through the railings, side- and top-swipes the Tesla, then carries on, now (I imagine given the damage) doing end over end flips onto the tracks.
There is no boot or bonnet remaining on the RR. Amazed anyone inside had a pulse.
I have acted in cases where part of the evidence is footage from a Tesla, with the subject being several feet away, so it must detect movement or something.
The very worst part of this is that the two female passengers had only met him that night- he offered them a lift home from a bar. Talk about sliding doors. The one who died had a six year old.
I reiterate what I recommended to @mistee on here some time ago - the best thing you can do to keep your older kids safe is get them a cab account so they can always get home safely
So true Escaped. He isn't really there yet (he turned 15 this week) and unlike me at his age he doesn't go out much apart from golf and badminton and to friends houses which I am eternally grateful for. Our nearest big city is Liverpool....
Teslas aren’t extraordinarily heavy for road cars. A Model S weighs about 2000 kg, about the same as a BMW 7 series, which admittedly is a larger car, but the weight of the tesla isn’t outlandish. Yes batteries are heavy but so is a full tank of petrol and an internal combustion engine made mostly of steel (electric motors are much lighter than IC engines)
Jewellery shop manager, 24, who crashed Range Rover onto Park Royal tracks has 'been in a coma since the accident' and his family are 'praying he wakes up' after horror smash which left mother, 33, dead
The technology is almost there, but isn't perfect.
Young drivers with black box insurance have been accused of breaking the rules, for example by travelling in a motorway, when in fact they have merely been on a parallel road.
Imagine if on a motorway the system thought you were on a 40mph road, and immediately smashed on the brakes?
It will come along, sure enough mind, especially once all cars are permanently connected to the net.
And then our Lords and masters can implement pay per mile taxation rather than fixed VED and fuel duty.
My car tells you the speed limit for where you are but I have noticed times that it's either got it wrong due to speed limits changing or simply because the GPS margin of error means it takes a while to change after I've passed the signs notifying me of a change in the speed limit.
also, the people likeliest to do egregious and moronic shit like drive at 100 in a 40 zone are exactly the kind of people who’d just pay to have any limited disabled, Autobahn hounds in Germany routinely disable the German industry’s standard limiter (which, be it noted, is set at something ridiculous like 150mph).
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Pretty spectacular to head off the road onto the railway tracks. Sounds like Teslas are surprisingly sturdy.
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Looking at the pictures, it is clear she failed to negotiate a bend.
And while I am no crash scene investigator, I would bet a large sum on the 40mph limit being significantly exceeded.
Luckily, a modern car like that has data logging so it can all be downloaded.
That Tesla woman needs to buy a lottery ticket pronto
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"A man and woman who were also in the car were taken to hospital and police said they are awaiting updates on their conditions."
How TF did anyone survive that?
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Just seen the video. The RR looks to be travelling at Mach 1.
And the Met initially managed to get the sex of Tesla person wrong. Not sure how one manages that, unless everybody there has been brainwashed by TRAs.
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If you manage to hit a Tesla and still make it onto a railway before your car stops moving, you were probably going pretty fast to start off with.
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Electric cars are very heavy due to the batteries, which is reflected in the amount of damage and injuries to others they cause in accidents.
I believe that Teslas have CCTV that runs all the time, including when the car is parked up. A lot of crims don't realise that. As with most modern cars they also have data logging systems that track the car's position and record the driver's every input.
It should be fairly easy to work out what has happened here.
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The CCTV when parked just picks up people who stop walking past so my friend initially had lots of images of people walking past going "ooh looks it's one of those Teslas".
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The Tesla was stationary at a garage.
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The Tesla was innocently being charged about 10 feet below street level. The RR is literally doing a barell roll as it punches through the railings, side- and top-swipes the Tesla, then carries on, now (I imagine given the damage) doing end over end flips onto the tracks.
There is no boot or bonnet remaining on the RR. Amazed anyone inside had a pulse.
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I have acted in cases where part of the evidence is footage from a Tesla, with the subject being several feet away, so it must detect movement or something.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11137767/Driver-crashed-Park-R…
Bloke was doing 120 mph in a range rover.
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Will I get my post deleted if I say you reap what you sow and when I look into my bag of emotions to see if I can find any sympathy I find it empty.
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agree re the driver, chuffy, but unfortunately he wasn't the only person impacted. As is often the way with road accidents and stupid driving.
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Sounds like the woman who died fell out of the car.
What is the maximum sentence for causing death by dangerous driving?
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death
hes already received it tho
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oh no wait, sozzles, it says he’s in a srs condition in hospital
weird, yesterday it sed the driver had died
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The very worst part of this is that the two female passengers had only met him that night- he offered them a lift home from a bar. Talk about sliding doors. The one who died had a six year old.
I reiterate what I recommended to @mistee on here some time ago - the best thing you can do to keep your older kids safe is get them a cab account so they can always get home safely
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So true Escaped. He isn't really there yet (he turned 15 this week) and unlike me at his age he doesn't go out much apart from golf and badminton and to friends houses which I am eternally grateful for. Our nearest big city is Liverpool....
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11137767/Driver-crashed-Park-Royal-tracks-jewellery-shop-manager-leg-amputated.html
Lost one leg.
Clearly he should be given a life sentence whatever the charge.
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Amit - from 28 June this year it's life
https://www.sentencingcouncil.org.uk/offences/crown-court/item/causing-death-by-dangerous-driving/
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https://youtu.be/fBqSMfKLz7A
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Teslas aren’t extraordinarily heavy for road cars. A Model S weighs about 2000 kg, about the same as a BMW 7 series, which admittedly is a larger car, but the weight of the tesla isn’t outlandish. Yes batteries are heavy but so is a full tank of petrol and an internal combustion engine made mostly of steel (electric motors are much lighter than IC engines)
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That reads odd. Or Alabama.
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When you’re quietly charging your electric car you don’t expect another car to land on top of it.
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A Range Rover SVR like the one this guy drove has a kerbweight of 2,350 kg Laz.
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Seven and a half years in prison.
Driving ban for 12 years.
Can you do that online on your own?
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fvck me what a smash
those tesla chargers are damn expensive too
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where do losers like this guy get £180k cars fgs. I’ve got serious skills and the most I’ve ever paid for a car is thirty grand.
Come to that, how the hell do spend £180k on a range rover anyway.
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It's all on lease finance. There is a C4 documentary out this week on boy racers like this.
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this guy thought he was going to get himself a threesome by showing off didn’t he
moron
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Don't worry. I'm sure there are plenty here, along with the economists, epidemiologists and Army Generals.
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The footage released of this was absolutely horrific. Amazed anyone survived.
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Didn't the driver himself have to get his legs amputated?
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No, I think he got someone else to do it.
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Why is it that cars don't have speed limiters installed?
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bcs then you wouldn’t be able to drive like a tit
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40mph speed limit
why don't all cars have speed limiters to restrain them from exceeding the speed limit on that particular road? the tech is here already
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sorry, I mean on any particular road, obv not just on the a40
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The technology is almost there, but isn't perfect.
Young drivers with black box insurance have been accused of breaking the rules, for example by travelling in a motorway, when in fact they have merely been on a parallel road.
Imagine if on a motorway the system thought you were on a 40mph road, and immediately smashed on the brakes?
It will come along, sure enough mind, especially once all cars are permanently connected to the net.
And then our Lords and masters can implement pay per mile taxation rather than fixed VED and fuel duty.
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there will be a healthy aftermarket in disablement of any such a system
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My car tells you the speed limit for where you are but I have noticed times that it's either got it wrong due to speed limits changing or simply because the GPS margin of error means it takes a while to change after I've passed the signs notifying me of a change in the speed limit.
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Every road around me is a 20mph limit and Google Maps reads them all as 30mph.
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also, the people likeliest to do egregious and moronic shit like drive at 100 in a 40 zone are exactly the kind of people who’d just pay to have any limited disabled, Autobahn hounds in Germany routinely disable the German industry’s standard limiter (which, be it noted, is set at something ridiculous like 150mph).
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there needs to be an official database of roads and speed limits, not relying on something like google maps
it'd be pretty straightforward to make disabling it (a) a criminal act and (b) easy to identify
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