Thought I might post this up here to remind everyone that goes on  cruises to be extra safe, in particular keep a safe distance between you and the car in front, don't exceed the speed limit (how ever tempting it may be) and to just drive sensibly, you NEVER know when something like this will happen:

"Copied from SAU forum"

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but ....

Before topics get posted and the rumour mill in Adelaide starts I wanted to let everyone know what happened.

Approx 8 Skylines were travelling at approx. 100km an hour (in a 110km/h zone) in a dual lane road (which was damp) heading slightly uphill. The oncoming lane was single lane, but had a semi-dotted line for overtaking into the middle lane of our 2 lane road, when safe.

It appears an oncoming green Festiva was overtaking, crossing into the centre of our 2 lanes, and has hit Drew/prof_dls (who was in the middle lane) almost head-on. The festiva appeared to be momentarily airbourne, then was struck by another maroon festiva (or similar car) after it hit the ground, spinning the green festiva around onto the road shoulder.

Needless to say Drew's car is a write-off. When I left, the emergency vehicles has arrived and were starting their work. Drew appeared to be trapped in his car, and was very shaken up and disorientated. His airbag had gone off, but he had still hit his head very hard on something. Due to the massive damage of the car I can only assume his feet and/or legs were trapped.

Unfortunately the young *edit* male (for various physical reasons - blood etc - I originally thought the driver was female) driver of the green festiva was trapped heavily in his vehicle, and appeared to be deceased. His young female passenger appeared to be quite seriously hurt, and was highly distressed (mostly about the driver I think).

The other festiva was damaged but the driver seemed ok.

So all in all it was a terrible accident, especially when Drew was only in the wrong place at the wrong time. We were all being responsible and had had a great cruise.

My heart goes out to you Drew, I massively hope you are ok. Please let us all know asap if you are ok, and if there is anything we can do for you.

Andrew

** update - I heard on the news that the other driver is indeed deceased, and Drew was airlifted to the RAH. I will find out exact details of Drew's whereabouts and organise a visit in the near future.



Quite a major incident!! Its amazing the skyline driver was not killed as this is what his car lookes like now: (I'll find a pic soon)


The full discussion is here:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=118793&st=0

Chad

yea... thats pretty fucked, sad to hear the news about the other driver, and hope all who were involved have a speedy recovery...

i urge everyone to sign up to SAU (if already havent done) and pass on your support and best wishes

Shit.....thats really bad.

R.I.P Green Festiva and its deceased occupants and a get well to the injured cruiser and civilians

unfortunatly, all i took was a slight lack of judgement from one person, and sadly paid for it with his life. Cruisers did nothing to cause the accident, and its a testament to good cruise ethics, it was just a freak accident

hoy crap i jsut saw it on the late new chadza 

yeah that nice skyline just sitting there wrecked.

apparently he was air lifted to hospital, geez that must have been bad.

that is if good cruise ethics are abided by.. i think this reinforces the point that the cruise code of conduct isnt something to be scoffed at. sure it sounds like we're being hard, but its for a good reason.

i agree completely, i know that i have done stupid things on cruises, and its not till later that you realise how stupid your actions actually were. these days i take a more responsible tact when cruising.