Street Racing…

Street Racing…

Steve Turner
February 16, 2006

Street Racing…is stupid. Do a Google News search for ‘drag racing’ and over half the results displayed are from news channels and newspapers reporting another death due to reckless street racing. It hits home when it happens right in your own town and you know the street where the accident occured. It’s even more amazing to learn the idiots were in a residential area speeding through crosswalks.

Seriously, if you are one who is easily tempted by the idiot in the lane next to you reving his motor, read some of the stories below very carefully. You are giving drag racing a bad name. Find a track to race legally, even if it is hours away. Besides, no one really cares who or what you beat on the street, it is ET’s that count.

From Google News, February 2006:

Girl, 12, struck during San Ramon drag race

Drag racing accident killed passenger

Suit alleges drag-racing crash killed suburban mother, boy

Reno Police Put the Brakes on Illegal Drag Racing

Did drag racing cause crash?

Citrus Heights Man Charged with Murder in Street Racing Death

Teen gets probation in fatal drag-racing

Man recieves two-year jail term for killing two of his friends while drag racing

Drag-racing teens killed cabbie

Street-racing car crashes into LA clinic