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Title: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: Dagenham Rover on November 16, 2014, 12:13:38 pm
http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/update-fifth-teen-dies-in-doncaster-horror-crash-1-6955468
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: Filo on November 16, 2014, 01:40:09 pm
Not far from the same spot where 3 other young people were killed a few years ago
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: GazLaz on November 16, 2014, 02:30:46 pm
To kill all 5 in one car it's got to have been a bad one.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: nightporter on November 16, 2014, 02:33:17 pm
Tragic. 
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: jucyberry on November 16, 2014, 04:36:19 pm
Their poor families. My sympathies go to all of them. It is the thing all parents fear most of all.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: RobTheRover on November 16, 2014, 07:04:44 pm
Someone has just told my wife they were Danum School pupils.

A tragic loss of young lives.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: Monkcaster_Rover on November 16, 2014, 07:15:01 pm
Awful news. Today is a bad day.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: ian1980 on November 16, 2014, 07:41:49 pm
Someone has just told my wife they were Danum School pupils.

A tragic loss of young lives.

Four current pupils and one former pupil. Terrible news and I can't imagine what the families will be going through.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: scaley back rover on November 16, 2014, 07:52:24 pm
Horrible news thoughts with the families
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: knockers on November 16, 2014, 08:12:18 pm
I'm  a school governor up at Danum and went up late afternoon. It's going to be a tough few weeks but the school is pulling together and there will be plenty of support for anyone that needs it. A very sad event but together they will pull through.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: Rich_The_Conisbrough_Rover on November 16, 2014, 08:29:10 pm
Drove along that road about a hour before the crash and then intended to come back along it at 10:15 but was closed from warmsworth lights onwards.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: Filo on November 16, 2014, 09:16:38 pm
I might be wrong, but didn't former Rovers captain John Nicholson die in a car crash on that road?
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: HomerJSimpson on November 16, 2014, 09:28:41 pm
Awful driving conditions last night. Drove to Barnsley and back and it wasn't great. Visibility down to 50 metres tops.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: Drover on November 16, 2014, 09:30:54 pm
Someone has just told my wife they were Danum School pupils.

A tragic loss of young lives.
Four current pupils and one former pupil. Terrible news and I can't imagine what the families will be going through.

Absolutely horrible and tragic.Can only imagine the hurting their friends and family are going through.My condolenses and thoughts to them all.
Just found out my son knows one of them,because apparently he goes to the Rovers foundation.I assume he will be the former Danum student?R.I.P. All of them.

Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: IDM on November 16, 2014, 09:33:20 pm
Absolutely shocking and horrific tragedy.

Puts all our petty squabbles about the manager etc into perspective...
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: RobTheRover on November 16, 2014, 10:16:46 pm
My daughter has been in Leeds all day, got home late, and she knew Megan.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: River Don on November 16, 2014, 10:47:37 pm
It was a bad night, I drove down to the station on Sheffield road through Warmsworth.  Wet conditions, patchy fog, sometimes very thick, it's quite close to the river. It's a dark corner going into Conisborough there.

Inexperienced drivers, possibly traveling too fast.

Tragic.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: roversdude on November 17, 2014, 12:53:45 pm
Terrible loss, thoughts are with the families
Knocker glad the school is pulling together and offering support
everyone spends time on here bickering/singing praises of a few guys kicking a bag of wind about - this puts things into perspective
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: SoundbiteBarmyArmy on November 17, 2014, 03:51:24 pm
RIP to the 5. Thoughts with their families and friends at this hard time.

Is that road a 60MPH? If so, they need to be changing the speed to a 40MPH (if possible) in my opinion.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: Rich_The_Conisbrough_Rover on November 17, 2014, 04:05:47 pm
RIP to the 5. Thoughts with their families and friends at this hard time.

Is that road a 60MPH? If so, they need to be changing the speed to a 40MPH (if possible) in my opinion.
yeah, 60 from where the accident happened right up to the quarry entrance on the warmsworth side, some definitely needs to be done, changed to a 40 or speed cameras, just walked by with the dog and there's plenty of flowers there and the news and paper crew are still there. Tragic what happened and makes you realise how cruel life can be taken away from you like that. Rest in peace
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: River Don on November 17, 2014, 07:41:28 pm
It's always been a dangerous road. Long ago my mum was courting a lad from Mexborough, he was really into motorbikes apparently. He killed himself on that road.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: roversdude on November 18, 2014, 07:09:08 am
Had a mate got killed nearly at same place as previous crash, it doesnt seem too bad a road but obviously is
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 18, 2014, 09:21:31 am
Problem is, people come flying along Warmsworth Drag, and some of them don't slow down as they come into Conisbrough past the water tower. I've seen no end of idiotic driving there over the years. And on the other side of Conisbrough, where the suicide lane is between Hill Top and Hooton Roberts.

I'm guessing that the bloke who's been arrested has overtaken someone at speed coming into Conisbrough, and has either hit, or forced the car with the kids in off the road.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: roverstillidie91 on November 18, 2014, 10:46:30 pm
The car with the kids in it went into the Seat on the other side of the road. And the 21 year old was travelling in front of the kids.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on November 18, 2014, 11:53:46 pm
Eh well. That was the soft bas**rd in me giving the benefit of the doubt to the dead.

By the sound of it, it's a tragedy that most of us came within a few inches of as an 18-19 year old driver, certain of our immortality and determined to impress our mates.
Title: Re: Five Doncaser Teenagers Die in Car Crash
Post by: BobG on November 26, 2014, 11:17:16 pm
Yes Billy. It makes shudder and cringe, all at the same time, when i think of how I used to drive when I was 19,20,21. I really don't know how I survived tbh. If I was a copper I'd lock me up now for what I did back then.

BobG