Adam Ash

FOOKINELL

just had got home from my 12 hour nightshift, got a call of my m8 Tim.

he sold the rst cabby 2 months ago to his m8,

apparently someone broke into his mates house, took keys and car then crashed it into a pub, killing thierselves.

picture in the local paper sends shivers down your spine, thiers nothing left of it , could have so easily been us by looking at piccie, which i wont put up just yet as its very distressing


Man dies as car hits pub



Campaigners are calling for safety measures at a fatal accident blackspot where a 29-year-old driver became the eighth victim early today after a stolen car crashed into a Lees pub.



The bright red, soft-top Ford Escort was crushed into two-thirds of its length and bent like a banana when it hit the corner wall of the Bridge Inn at Leesbrook.

It was the eighth death in the same area of Lees Road in 11 years.

Firemen and paramedics gave cardiac massage and pain relief as they fought to free the driver and his seriously injured 22-year-old passenger.

The driver died early today at the Royal Oldham Hospital where the passenger is being treated for serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.

Crews had to cut off the roof and driver’s side of the Escort, and sub-officer Andrew Turner, of Oldham Fire Station, said: “We had to work very rapidly because the men could not be stabilised in the car.

“Even though it was a soft top all the support pillars were damaged and crushed together.

“It was forced into two-thirds of its original length and bent around the driver’s side. We managed to cut them out in about 15 minutes.”

Police are investigating whether the car had been stolen a short distance away in Salem.

It is then believed to have hit a parked Vauxhall Vectra and box van in Dove Street, before turning on to Lees Road and then clipping the kerb around 11.40 pm last night.

A local motorist who saw the aftermath said: “The car came down the hill and the driver’s side hit the corner of the pub wall and spun 180 degrees into the middle of the road.

“There was debris all over the road and the windscreen had come out. The road was closed for at least two hours.”

This morning, Peter Ashworth, owner of the Bridge Inn, pleaded for speed cameras at the bend as the road curves from Salem into Lees.

He said: “It was 11.45 pm and I was inside. The car hit the far wall and the whole building juddered.

“I looked out of the window and the car had run back on to the road and was against the pavement outside the far end of the pub.

“I came out and I could see two men inside the car but the police were already at the scene dealing with it. I am bitter and annoyed that Lees Road here has become a racetrack.”

Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact traffic police on 0161-856 8809 or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800-555111.






THE 300-metre stretch of road in Leesbrook now has a shocking death toll of eight lives in only 11 years.



Since 1994 there have been six fatal crashes — the youngest victim aged only 15 — and numerous less serious accidents.

Lees Road, the main route to Uppermill and Greenfield from Oldham, goes down a long straight hill at Leesbrook and then into a left-hand bend.

The tragic catalogue of death and destruction there prompted Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Phil Woolas to last year plead with the police and Oldham Council to take action.

In 1994, 15-year-old Michelle Larkin, of Lowside Drive, Glodwick, and 23-year-old Arif Hussain (22), of Clinton Walk, Glodwick, were killed when the Toyota Tercel they were in ploughed into the Lighthouse pub. A second teenage passenger suffered a broken leg and arm, and driver Parvez Ali (24), of Greenhill Terrace, Glodwick, suffered multiple injuries.

Yards from that spot in January, 2001, 81-year-old Doris Harvey was killed when she was hit by a joyrider in a stolen car.

Later that year, 19-year-old Billy Bevan, of Hollin Hall Street, Clarksfield, died when his car hit the wall at Lees Brook Mill.

In 2002, Mark Andrew Harrison (20), of Carnation Road, Holts, was killed when his Vauxhall Nova GTE hit a pelican crossing.

Then just before Christmas, 2003, the road claimed the lives of 16-year-old schoolfriends Christian Leyden, of Springhead, and Anthony Hughes, of Greenfield.

Anthony’s mother, Kathleen Hughes (57), who was driving at the time, suffered serious internal injuries when her Ford was hit by a Rover 827.



im more gutted about the car to tell you the truth, took us a year to build from a shell .


well, he wont do that again


as it was ...







After thief ...




CNUT

Charlie Chalk

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Rhys

Gutted about the car. But im sorry if sounding controversial, but if that was my car i wouldnt care if the guy who nicked it got killed!

But as u said scary looking at it when it could have been u and ur mate etc.

st3v3

edited cos i cant read

B19-TRB

Got what the lil shit deserved as far as I am concerned!

to bad about the car! but very lucky no1 else was hurt/killed!

Rs Gus

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there is some justice in this world then!!!!!!!!!!!! get the piccys up mate

Ginge !

, what a waste of a car

fook the thieves

rsrob

i wouldnt 1 bit, sorry but he wouldnt of died if he'd have walked there

swerv

If the driver was 10 years younger then i would have felt sorry for him, but whats a 29 year old doing in an rs turbo cabriolet??

Anonymous

Pity about the car, but a good result overall i reckon

And NO i dont give a flying fuck about the thieving scum's family, he obviously didnt when he became a theif so no reason for me to.

st3v3

ooops sorry i mis-read the post no i dont care either if the thief got killed then fcuk him, he got what he deserved

the post has now been edited

TheBishMan

That's tragic but if you nick someone's car and drive like a twat into a pub it's your own fault...not saying they deserved to die but if you play with fire.....

Ginge !

what theres a age range for cars

at 30+ he must nick rover 600's and then at 50 he has to nick rover metros again

i dont mind if a theif nicked my cossie aslong as he wrote it off and died

K3V HA

I think i remember you selling it on here for him?? is this right??

Its not nice for anyone to die, but twas all bought on themselves imo.

Rhys

I meant, i dont care if he got killed Typing on this laptop is a fookin pain in the arse

Anonymous

Deserved to die 100% in my opinion, just a shame he didnt nick a bus, fill it full of his scummy car theif mates and then drive it off a fucking cliff.

Anonymous

Yep, money well spent, ill happily donate a couple of cars to the "kill a thieving scum" fund.

Ginge !

best way to reduce crime imo

Neil@FastFord

thats not far from me but no sympathy for the thief at all.

Anonymous

The only thing that is a shame, is that it was a pub he crashed into and not a gatso camera
That really would have been a happy ending.

RichardPON

No sympathy there.

Feel sorry for the pub owner.

Ginge !

R4N SS

iTrader: (6)

what a coont

get the piccy up - theif deserved all he got IMO

phil4x4saph

Feel sorry for your m8, the poor sod who's pub got wrecked and the emergency services that had to clear up.
Dont give a shit about the thief.
If i could guarrantee no false alarms, I'd have a cyanide gas canister rigged up to my alarm - kill all the pikey coonts!

As for the guy who "pleaded for speed cameras" FFS! what difference would that make to a thoughtless prick in a car he just stole??

Ginge !

yeah im sure if hes nicked a car hes gonna slow down for speed cameras so he dont get points on his licence

B19-TRB

fpmsl @ chip!

The Gravedigger

Shame about the car.

Fucking good news the pikey died

Every cloud has a silver lining

Rs Gus

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piccy piccy piccy come on adam lets see the w4nkers ending

Mark 3D

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Yes.... get a piccy up of the crash.

I wont shed any tears over a dead car thief!!

Big G

Yeh, fooked up his AT because of the coppers outside


On a serious note though i actually know the now dead scumbag and his family, not a sad los IMO but i am awaiting the read up from his mum
"He was a good lad who wouldnt hurt anyone" like fook, howcome he knocked shit out of you then ya daft bint



Drivers head --------> <----------Pub wall

Hrsturbo

Kill the bstards!! I want to kill the people who broke into my car, if they stole it I dn't know wot I would do

tank1987

thieving twats got what was coming to them just unfortunatly there were only two of them in the car


but its a real shame about the car it was mint

Spax

Sorry but glad he got killed, a) cos he stole some1's pride and joy and b) they were speeding through a small road by the sounds of hit, Pikey Scum

Alps Pacino

Good 1 less fucking knobhead off the streets

Big G

The road is an A road, pretty wide single carriageway speedy downhill with a bend at the bottom, the problem is the council have put then stupid horrible pedestrian island things in the middle so when giving it some (i am a taxi driver in these parts) basically its fooked up the racing line


why should i be arsed anyway, never did like the fooker

gurnE

@ your mate loosing his car

@ the thieving twat throwing himself into a wall

Oranoco

No sympathy for the thieving oiks

Driving a stolen car beyond their capabilities and they paid the price. Tough shit

Chipperx2

Bad things happen to bad people

sorry bout the car mate!

Windle

just down road from m and as G man said you can get caught doing speeds and its slipy.

pmsl at landlord not being able to do AT

ps the car was aparentely owned by a mates uncle