Street racing got what he deserve
 

Video
http://home.comcast.net/~otownsme/accident.WMV
the thread:
http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=659359

fools like this is the reason why I have a high premium.

Hopefully this is a wake up call for him atleast,

I used to street race alot when i was younger, we were always responsable about it, had no large crowds, had people on either end of a deserted road with CB radios looking for cars that may be using the road. Luckily me or any of my friends had any accidents other than a couple blown motors

How do you just loose control like that? I mean, that's not that easy. Well, maybe in a Honda.

*when i can learn to say intelligent things moderators will stop editing me*

From the video it looks doesn't look like they even bothered to wear seatbelts. It sounds like a mis-shift caused him to loose control. Street racing is stupid stupid stupid. Shit track days don't even cost much and its safer (for everyone) and totally legal.

Thats not really that much damage, Im sure it scared him more than damaged him.

What's that supposed to mean? There's no way any car should lose control like that unless something was already wrong or the guy isn't admitting to something.

And are you suggesting that Hondas don't handle well?

Oh well....another one bites the dust.

well at least he owned himself and not someone else comming in the oposite direction. wish there were more raceways or closed roads for "kids" to do this stuff. He's damn lucky though, cause they weren't wearing seatbelts. no seatbelts + speed + inexperiance = very bad combination.

I read most of the forums..

He was redlining in 3rd and held the shifter wrong and accidentally pulled it into 2nd going into 4th and then he realized he fucked up and slammed the breaks.. Weight shifting and breaks = SPINOUT!!!

Anyways this guy is like all over the internet now :)

Im just wondering why he wanted to post that on the internet. It makes him even more of an idiot.

A moron that isn't ashamed of his stupidity. Way to go.

at least he didnt hurt anyone else.

And seriously, mount your tach a little higher. If all you have is a stock one, learn to listen to the engine to shift. I cant stand people who just stare at the tach and not the road.

LOL street racing is the only real way to race:D

There is no such thing as responsible street racing. There is really no excuse for it as drag strips are so common and entry fees aren't very expensive. I'm not too keen on drag racing anyways. If our cars were just meant to accelerate, they'd be on rails.

You can street race in a responsible way. At night on a remote road and your buddies looking out for other cars.

Negative. That's not responsible, that's just making sure you don't hurt anyone else. At a real racetrack, or any legal motorsports event, there are people who've been trained to respond correctly in case something goes south. And there are usually ambulances to take people who get hurt to the hospital right away. If you think that street racing can be done responsibly, you're naive. There are stories on the news several times a month about how people die street racing or watching street racing (or are in the wrong place when someone else is street racing). I read most of the import performance magazines, and talented people in the industry are always dying in street races several times a year, if not more often.

What an idiot... that guy deserves to be dead. I agree with Elitegibson, street racing even doing it 'in a responsible way' is just stupid. There is no safe way to do it.
Stick to the track. Trust me it's much safer. You can drive 10/10ths without fear of some guy driving on the wrong side of the road or little kids jumping out in front of you. Oh and when you innevitablly lock up or push way to hard and spin your gonna be ok.
From the video it just looks like he's just paniced after over revving it jammed the breaks and locked up with his eyes on the tacho not on the road, combined with his shit scared passanger. The drivers paniceed and just lost it in the dirt. Would have revved past 12000 rpm, lucky didnt blow the motor in the process. I'd hate to think how many times they said "Oh shit".

What a dumbass, if your gonna race, atleast learn how to shift.... sigh.... You can always pick out these ones in the crowd, stick out like a stupid kid...

I agree with the above negative comments made about street racing. Take it to the track, there's no place for it on public roads.

On a side note, I'm amazed at how that forum, and particularly several other honda ones I've visited, turns it's head the other way to street racing. WTF?!? I belong to vwvortex.com, a very well run and put together forum - one mention of streetracing, and your thread will be locked in one minute.

as i stated in my previous reply. we used to street race alot.. we also went to the track when we could, but it was an hour away and only open about every other weekend I would rather race at a track, but if need be, a deserted road will do for me

thats what you get for driving a pos foreign car

Why would you say something innane like that? I'm tired of this "hooray for America, foreigns and japs suck" bullshit. The kind of car he was driving had virtually nothing to do with the fact that he put it in the dirt. The car didn't lose control cause it was a Honda Civic, one of the most popular foreign cars in America. The car lost control because the driver was an idiot. I'm sure he could've spun out a "awesome domestic" car just as easily.

PS - See the motto in my signature? It applies to you! Please don't bring children into this world!

A moron is a moron, no matter what kind of car he is driving.

Apparently you've never had any immediate family members (ie parents, brothers/sisters) working in the steel industry. Easy to get hired, good pay. At least it USED to be like that.

Then Japscrap POS's started taking over the north american car market and Cappucino-sucking tree-hugging hippies started buying them because they were good for the environment and got 2mpg better than their American counterparts. Don't take performance, reliability, price, or morals into account here.

Then the steel industry started going to hell and thousands upon thousands of people lost their jobs. No biggie in normal cities, but small cities where 50% of the workforce works at the plant (See Billy Joel's song "Allentown"), people got FUCKED.

YOU try living a life with a parent that has no job and no dignity and explaining to your kids why they can't have that power wheels car this year for Christmas. Then tell me Japanese cars are so fucking great. Do you think Japan buys their steel from here?


(note, the above can be applied to North American car companies too, not just steel plants)

I'm not saying he spun out because he was in a Honda, i'm just saying people DO have legitimate reasons for hating imports. SO be sick of it all you want. I want to move back to the town where I lived when I was a kid, but oh wait-no jobs there because of the steel plant slowly going to hell!

I will never, ever, EVER pay for a Japanese car. PERIOD. Probably goes for imports in general, but some european cars are kinda neat. :)

Big-bubba : sorry to hear that about your experiences, but don't blame the Japanese for your country opening it's borders to more efficient overseas car industries. Australian car industries were in a bad way when the markets were opened to overseas competition, so they had to adapt and become more efficient.
It's just an inevitable process mate, globalization does that to most countries.

Yeah, sorry about your bad time, but there was a time before the Japanese compaines had a strong hold on the American car market. At that time the domestic car manufacturers could've changed and competed in this capitalistic market that I love. They chose to stay in the past for whatever reason. This allowed Japan to get its foot in the door and provide more value than the American auto manufacturers. People saw this value and bought the Japanese cars, leaving the domestic manufacturers' heads spinning. They're only just now catching up to the awesome value that Japan has been putting out for the last 15 years. If you hold a grudge against Japan for what happened to your town and much of the Northeast a decade ago, that's your business. I just request that you don't bring your unreasonable hate here where it doesn't belong.

a lesson learned the hard way ... I had one bad race w/ only a blown tire and it scared me enough

I don't hold a grudge against Japan or their cars. I'm just saying, to each his own, but people that hate Japanese cars often do hate them for a reason.

I guess I'm dreaming, but I want the car market to go back to the 70s. 20-cent gas, cars made of steel and not plastic, rear wheel drive on pretty much anything, and the roar of a 6+ litre V8 engine under the hood. Probably never going to happen.

Sure, they're efficient, quiet, etc. But you can't tell me new cars (AVERAGE ones, Nissans and Mercedes-Benz cars with 35 airbags don't count) are safer than the good ol' boats the big 3 USED to make. My car's bumper is steel, as in stamped steel 3/8 of an inch thick. If a dude in a new civic with his plastic covered styrofoam bumper (or any new car for example) plowed onto my side of the road and hit me dead on, what car would have more damage? Lesse, his blown airbags, new bumper cover, new fenders, possibly hood, vs. my "press the bumper shock absorbers back out" and maybe a new grill and some fender repair. A buddy of mine has a '87 Dodge truck, and was rear-ended by a Mazda Protege. The Mazda was totalled, and chipped the chrome on the truck's bumper in the process.

I also find that it's mostly imports that have USELESS options. I know another guy that's afraid to put the headers on his '03 Altima himself because he'd have to unbolt the engine and lift it up a bit...and he has electronically controlled automatic-stiffness-adjusting motor mounts and if he screws them up, the ignition system will disable and it'll cost him a small fortune to have it fixed. WHY THE FUCK DO YOU NEED AUTOMATIC ENGINE MOUNTS? Sad. My car has power nothing (literally...not brakes, windows, steering, NOTHING.) and I like it that way. Break down? What's that mean? Not fixable by anybody with a shop manual, a wrench, and some spare time? What's that mean? Try dropping the tranny in your civic in your driveway in less than a week. :eek:

Well now I'm rambling. My point is, if you want to buy Japanese, fine. Just don't pull a CSTH and spend hours upon hours pondering "why oh why is the economy floating out of the country? I'll hop in my Honda, drive home to my Hitachi TV, watch the new Kia and Toyota commercials, and think about it some more." and whine when there are people with opinions varying from your own.