Oppo PSA ;_;

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390)
10/11/2015 at 21:26 • Filed to: PSA

My cousin was in a bad accident last night, and I just found out a little while ago after coming home from AutoX today. Drunk driving was the cause of the accident, but it wasn’t his fault....to an extent.

I guess to throw in some car enthusiast dribble, this cousin is the one who’s dad(my uncle) has the 911SC and 944 I was supposed to buy way back when...

Anyway, he was driving home last night with his friend driving, who was drunk. I assume they were both drunk because they were doing 80 in a 30mph zone and hit a tree....They had to fly him out from Clinton to Syracuse, New York for surgery and is in intensive care right now with both ankles broken, cracked ribs, lacerated spleen, and most likely bruises and bumps and lacerations of the sort. I don’t even wanna know how his friend is doing, and if he got off without a scratch, I don’t even know, and no sympathy shall be given to him. This is also partly my cousin’s fault for letting him drive the way he did, but family bias takes precedent here.

So for fucks sake people, Oppo, don’t drive drunk, or ride with a drunk driver. You’re better off walking or staying where you are than potentially having this happen...

DISCUSSION (16)

Bandit > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/11/2015 at 21:33

Hey man, sorry you’re going through that. Sucks that it is happening, but at least they’re alive.

Side question, where do you find all these awesome dead cars?

Berang > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/11/2015 at 21:33

Advice: delete all details in the event there are future insurance or legal questions, you don’t want stuff like this easily linked to people.

As an aside, I think that’s Blake’s salvage in Colorado? I used to go there every now and then years ago.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Bandit
10/11/2015 at 21:37

It’s what I look at when I’m depressed. No, it doesn’t make me feel better, but not much does in those moments and ones like this. I have a whole folder of assorted pictures, well over 100.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Berang
10/11/2015 at 21:53

Noted..Are you telling me there was literally a Porsche/Euro graveyard in Colorado?

Berang > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/11/2015 at 21:57

Blake’s Small Car Salvage was a yard that specialized in imports, particularly European cars. They were well known for having hundreds of VW microbuses - but they had a lot of different weird stuff. I remember seeing a SAAB 92, Renault 4cv, Subaru 1300G, and many other odd/rare cars there. I don’t recall seeing the Porsches, but I wouldn’t doubt there were at least a few laying around. Unfortunately the yard isn’t open to the public anymore.

Dwhite - Powered by Caffeine, Daft Punk, and Corgis > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/11/2015 at 22:02

On the bright side those are all things that you can definitely recover from no problem. Broken ankles would be a bitch, but still.

Best of luck though man.

Van Man, rocks the Man Van > K-Roll-PorscheTamer
10/11/2015 at 22:45

Could not agree more, K-Roll. Drunk drivers are absolutely awful.

Personal story: my uncle and his wife have two daughters, and both are 3 or younger. About a year ago, they got hit by a drunk driver. They were sitting at a traffic light right outside their neighborhood when a drunk driver (who was actually running from the cops) rear ended them doing well over 50 MPH. Luckily, they were in a fairly big SUV while the drunk guy was in a hatchback. Their car was totaled. The two girls were in the second row, but anyone in the third row would’ve probably died. Their older daughter was scared to ride in a car for months. I believe they all still go to physical therapy (a year later) to treat some of their soreness, and some of them got pretty bad whiplash. Still, getting a call about an accident like that, hearing your family is in the hospital, at 11 at night is just awful.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Van Man, rocks the Man Van
10/11/2015 at 23:07

That’s awful.