Just read this in my local paper. Not good news. Anyone off here?

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feck thats bad

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female passenger in westy died

Paul

http://boardroom.wscc.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=74862;st=0

from that link its the factory demonstrator, tragedy either way but to be some poor soul on a test drive is awful.

Tragedy for all concerned




Be Careful out there Everybody...

it looks very much like the westy that a guy on here built but sold a while ago!

Very sad
Can eveyone please be carefull out there.

Very sad

My thoughts go out to the family

Very sad indeed, my condolences to all those involved.

i was at westfield yesterday with another LCB member, i assume its the couple who went out in the demo car that we were waiting to come back, then i feel very sorry for there friends and family.

all i can say is that the staff at westfield were very proffesional, it was very damp under foot yesterday in Dudly and when we were out on out trest drive we even calmed down the driving a bit.

RIP and my thoughts are with you.

Makes you think, what starts off as an exciting day out ends in this tradgedy. You feel so sorry for the people involved. Barry

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just goes to show what can happen when you abuse the throttle

very sad news indeed and a sharp reality check for all of us I suspect.

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just goes to show what can happen when you abuse the throttle

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just goes to show what can happen when you abuse the throttle

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you dont know thats what happened. The other car was a yaris piloted by a 60 year old woman, theres every possibility she caused the accident.

I'm not placing blame, but neither should you. You're basically accusing the driver of killing the passenger.

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tell that to the guy who accused the ferrari driver of being a twat on here the other day.

no such thing as an accident anyway. for someone to have an "incident", someone had to be driving without due care or dangerously.

besides, one of the drivers was responsible for killing the passenger - unless it was a dual control car.

Whosoever is to blame. Which will come out over the coming days, weeks months....

It is a tragic event that but for the grace of god could happen to pretty much any of us. My heart goes out to the families and friends of the couple in the Westy.

- Jim

I live about 2 miles from the accident site. This road has seen many accidents though the years and is the main road between Wolverhampton and Kidderminster.

There is the local Westfield owners meet on Sunday night, which we (Vindicator Owners) are always welcome too. I am sure there will be a lot of talking about this on the night.

However I shall miss going there as I am going up to Scotland (not in my Vindi) for a well deserved break.

I am sure that all your comments and thoughts will be passed on to other Westfield owners.

Regards

TimR

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no such thing as an accident anyway. for someone to have an "incident", someone had to be driving without due care or dangerously.

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no such thing as an accident anyway. for someone to have an "incident", someone had to be driving without due care or dangerously.

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grow up lads and show respect, argue on another post please.

I'm sorry that is utter bollocks; a product of blame / no win / no fee culture and a sad reflection of society today.

So they went out with the intention of crashing ? It's a series of unfortunate events with a fatal outcome and if these things could be prevented we wouldn't need insurance. There is no point in speculating what happened or trying to apportion blame. Think before you write these things.

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Wonder why it is then that the rozzers now refer to these as incidents RTI's and not RTA's anymore.

proves my point no respect......

Back to the point....

Very sad news.

This is one of the reasons i sold my MK as i had a near head on when someone pulled out on me and i swearved onto oncoming traffic to avoid the other car. It's bad enough in a normal car but 10x more scary in a 7.

[Edited on 24/7/09 by donut]

Just found this topic on here,I don't know if anyone had seen this post,sad,sad news from Saturday.

I am really sorry to have to report that the Driver of the Westfield has also passed away. He had been struggling with his life since the incident and his fight ended on Saturday evening. Our thoughts are with both families and all the friends at this time. We will be posting some more information over the next few days once the wording has been approved by the authorities. Please pray for the families and friends involved
Julian

Link to thread added http://boardroom.wscc.co.uk/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?act=ST;f=1;t=74862;;st=105

[Edited on 27/7/09 by dmwpep]

This is so sad an outcome to what should have been a very happy driving experience and it brings tears to my eyes knowing that they have both missed out on such a good life driving ths type of vehicle that i have driven on an off for the last 40 yrs of my life and still do , my deepest condolences go out to both families of those concerned .

Mike , so shocked and totally devistated .

[Edited on 27-7-2009 by miikae]