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Thorpe Bay Crash

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Libertine said:
Yes mate, I know. However when you read about things like this happening it does make you want to lock them indoors till their twenties!
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True but it does get easier,the wife was in tears this morning when i told her due to the fact that the mother of elanore has had her taken thru no fault of her daughters or her familys.Stop for one secound and think if you lost one of your girls now,today they are just taken,me i wouldnt cope,my kids are my life as im sure yours are your life.
I could go on about the driver(a person i have known for 6 years)but i dont want to upset ozzy(his bestest mate)seeing as it seems im a idiot(ozzys words)but i just hope Jack Horton is ok,ive known him since he was 8.
As i said n another thread the driver drove like a plum showing off to his school i wont call them mates because he is not that popular so fellow school pupils a couple of weeks ago and my son was in the group he was showing off too so there by the grace of god and all that.
But as for your kids if you are a good parent then they stand a good chance of making it through the hard knock life we all now live.
And ozzy if you want to have a pop at me please feel free.
 
Libertine said:
All very sad...makes me wonder how much cotton wool I'll need to wrap my kids in when they're old enough to go out on their own. My heart goes out to her family.
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This incident, like so many was just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was never the kind of girl who hung around with the wrong crowd or anything, she was just unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. RIP
 
Just took a phone call to say that Eleanor was the daughter of one of my friends' closest and oldest school friend. I wasn't aware of the surname, so to Gill and the rest of the family and their friends, I send my condolences as well.
 
Although I didnt know her personally, a number of my friends did and all they had to say about her were positive things.

RIP
 
This girl goes to my school, and by all accounts today was a horrible day. Thankfully I was off, but it has had a huge effect on the place.

RIP Eleanor.
 
The mum of the 17yo male (who has now been re-arrested on charges of manslaughter) has been admitted to hospital as apparently she has found it very hard to cope with it all as she feels she is to blame for it all. Apparently bricks (ironically enough) have been thrown thru windows of their house since the incident.

Kev
 
Is it me or is all of the posting on here / echo etc sad?
A 14 year old girl has lost her life due to no fault of her own.
Shouldnt we focus on that first and foremost and only after she's been laid to rest worry about anything else?
 
callan said:
Is it me or is all of the posting on here / echo etc sad?
A 14 year old girl has lost her life due to no fault of her own.
Shouldnt we focus on that first and foremost and only after she's been laid to rest worry about anything else?
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Personally its like anything in life - if people are interested in it, they are going to post about it (on here!) or somewhere else. This made headlines around Europe - mum and dad were out in Spain and it even cropped up on Spanish news last Saturday/Sunday morning. Its only happened down the road from me and alot of people are talking about it in Shoebury/Thorpe Bay. Its obviously tragic someone has lost their life - but hopefully youngsters locally will learn from this and it wont happen again!

Kev
 
The General said:
Personally its like anything in life - if people are interested in it, they are going to post about it (on here!) or somewhere else. This made headlines around Europe - mum and dad were out in Spain and it even cropped up on Spanish news last Saturday/Sunday morning. Its only happened down the road from me and alot of people are talking about it in Shoebury/Thorpe Bay. Its obviously tragic someone has lost their life - but hopefully youngsters locally will learn from this and it wont happen again!

Kev
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Definately made me think about how i'm going to drive when I start!
 
ozzy-shrimper said:
Definately made me think about how i'm going to drive when I start!
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Good to hear mate. The people who this has affected (and yes im going to massively stereotype here!) are the upper class families as most of the kids seemed to go to Thorpe Hall, or SH for Boys & Girls. Some of these kids get things handed to them on a plate and some of them think they are gods gift. This will also hopefully stop the parents going out and spending alot of money on a NEW car for their 17/18 yo's learning. Give them an old banger for a year or two and if they've learnt to drive correctly and be responisble, then spoil them when they are 20/21. There were a couple of girls/boys in my year at Shoebury who got bought brand new cars for their 17th/18th birthday and most had crashed them within 2 months. Luckily they survived but it could have been so much worse.

Kev
 
manor15 said:
This incident, like so many was just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was never the kind of girl who hung around with the wrong crowd or anything, she was just unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. RIP
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Exactly, and people then say they don't believe in fate.
If your numbers up then that's you I am guessing.
Look on the other hand at the NYC plane crash and the 100 or so people who thought they were about to expire but got to live (& fight - for want of a better term) another day...
 
Andyhsufc said:
http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/local_news/4719766.Teenager_jailed_for_Thorpe_Bay_death_crash/

Mr Gemmell was sentenced to six years today. He will probably serve four of that. Not much justice there.
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I fully sympathise with your sentiments and the need for justice to have been seen to have been done, however, for this young man, I am quite sure that whatever sentence he serves physically, he will be serving far longer mentally.

A game of "chicken" that went tragically wrong was how it was reported recently.

Please understand I'm not excusing him, but I think now for Eleanor and Jack's families in particular, and the numerous other traumatised and injured youngsters and their families this will be closure of sorts.
 
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