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Car Crash / Preston New Road
Sun 11th Jan 2004, 12:13 AM
Reported by: onthespot

A number of people are helping police with inquires after a car crash in Preston New Road, Southport.

At approximately 10.00pm this evening a red Ford Fiesta veered off the road, crashing into a tree, then over turned into a garden wall.

Emergency services were called to the scene, paramedics attended to the injured people who were later taken to Southport & Formby DGH. Their conditions are not thought to be serious.

Groups of people gather at the crash scene.

Police closed part of Preston New Road for a short while.

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(22 comments)

Pluto says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 01:13 AM

Are all those childrens parents aware that their kids are out just hanging aroung on the streets?

smithy99 says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 04:20 AM

Well Pluto...what were you doing when you were their age...at home knitting with your grandmother?

Taxi Driver says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 08:00 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by smithy99
Well Pluto...what were you doing when you were their age...at home knitting with your grandmother?

:D

Or maybe Pluto, they were already inside a house and came out for a nosey after hearing a bang.

tonio says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 11:37 AM

I would be very interested to know what speed was involved in this incident.

Concern has been expressed to ther traffic police locally on a number of occasions regarding the apparent lack of detection of 'high speed' speed-limit infringers, particularly on our long straight roads in Southport.

Saint says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 12:07 PM

Pluto, I am one of the parents of the children in the photo. As others have posted, the crash was outside houses which people actually live in.

I see you are a Formby resident, perhaps things like this don't occur in Formby, your comment was irrelevant, these children are good kids, however you seen to have made up your mind from a photo, shame.

Wittybebop says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 12:30 PM

Looking at the damage to this car I would have said they crashed at about 45-50mph, maybe they didn't loose control of the vehicle, ball joints are very common to break on these cars, maybe they should consider themselves quite lucky they wern't doing 70 on the motorway when it happened, you dont have to be doing very high speeds to turn a car over hitting a kerb at an angle whilst doing 30 is enougth to set the car raising possible hitting the tree finished rolling it over.

At least no pedestrians were hit, I'll try and get a detailed report from the accident investigator at a later date.

marilyn says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 02:55 PM

Thank Goodness nobody was walking on the pavement when they crashed!
Did they break one of the lovely Blossom Trees?

Well said Saint!;)

mrs.b says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 06:05 PM

The hordes of 'children' in the background look suspiciously like those who regularly hang around this area, breaking the phone box and bus stop glass on a regular basis. Ah well, at least this incident would have kept them amused for a while.

Pluto says:	Sun 11th Jan 2004, 10:38 PM

Anyone actualy read the question?

Not you mrs.b :)

I was just making a point as I saw many children get battered when i was younger as gangs used to roam the streets looking for rivals to fight with and steal from.

Saint, I'm not bothered if your not.

chris87jimmy says:	Mon 12th Jan 2004, 12:42 PM

dont worry about those kids, they dont look like trouble makers........ yet. It wud probs be the crossens crew who rip up ure phone boxes.

Ralphy Rylance says:	Mon 12th Jan 2004, 01:33 PM

I wonder if Schumi was driving.
I don't suppose we could be so lucky.

Johno08 says:	Mon 12th Jan 2004, 08:32 PM

:mad: wasnt us in the picture that smash phone boxes and bus stops.. one of the guys on the pics house's was next door. why would we smash a phone box outside 1 of our friends house? Why do you always expect kids to be hooligans? Trying living your life to the full instead of cristisising other people!!! The old women on the picture could of smashed the phone box why do you always think "oh it must be them , little hooligans" !!!!!!!!!!

Silly Tilly says:	Tue 13th Jan 2004, 09:05 PM

well said Jonno08, Its about time people stopped taking things on face value on this site and assuming it was all kids and young people who cause all the damage in this town!

Not every young person is a thug or hooligan!

T

BazzaE says:	Wed 14th Jan 2004, 06:04 PM

Don't tar all kids with the same brush!

dane08 says:	Thu 22nd Jan 2004, 12:44 AM

hey johno its dane thought id just say hi

Jamie says:	Tue 16th Mar 2004, 09:31 PM

Hello Johno lad, I thought i would just say hi. It is not us that go round smashing phone boxes. Everybody thinks that ALL teenagers are bad and always causing trouble. Not all teenagers are that bad.

Spectator says:	Thu 7th Jun 2007, 11:19 PM

love the way, stuck up people have a opinion over a picture. Look at your family's teenagers, im sure they have tracksuits

themaster says:	Sat 22nd Mar 2008, 11:17 PM

must of been drunk fat bugger

Hammer says:	Sat 22nd Mar 2008, 11:30 PM

In some of the pictures they look like Bungalows to me not houses. :)

ChrisR says:	Sat 22nd Mar 2008, 11:36 PM

Car Crash / Preston New Road
Sat 10th Jan 2004, 11:13 PM
Am i loosing the plot, but this is very old news. Or is the date wrong? and there has been a crash

malena stool says:	Sat 22nd Mar 2008, 11:42 PM

No Chris ....

themaster obviously knows the drunken fat bugger and wanted to highlight the point!

I think "drunken fat bugger" doesn't narrow it down much!

After all, most nights, I'm one !!!

ChrisR says:	Sun 23rd Mar 2008, 12:03 AM

Thanks Mal, had a **** few days and i thought that i had lost it.
Hope you are fit & well.

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