Have you ever traveled 2.5 times faster than the traffic around you at any time in your life? If so...then don't criticize.
No, I've never done 50 mph in a 20mph zone, 75mph in a 30mph zone, 100mph in a 40mph zone ect. I'm not saying I've never exceeded the speed limit, general traffic flow is rarely at or below the speed limit, that's generally how I drive, I follow the flow of traffic. 99% of drivers speed, but it's to what extent that get's me. Sure you shouldn't, and anyone that knows me knows that I have zero sympathy for people that kill themselves in car crashes when they were speeding or street racing. Most of the time it's young people who have wasted thier lives, well screw them. Harsh but that's my honest view on people who use excessive speed on any public roads, rural or urban I don't care they can kill themselves all they want, I'd just prefer they did it by putting a gun to their heads in their garages or something where there's on chance they'll take someone else out with them. Most people have the urge to put their foot down, but I sure as hell would not try going round tight corners (and I presume the one you went round was blind as well) in the wet at over 30mph.
I apologize for being unsafe, because that seems to be the basis of your opinion, but that is a choice that I and my friend made.
It's a choice you both made that ended up affecting someone else, someone unnivolved, someone who I'm pretty sure would have rather not have been involved in a crash that night. It is so selfish to use that reasoning, you perhaps just haven't realised. If the decision would only ever affect the two of you, and only the two of you then I wouldn't see any problem, but that's not the case. Theres a story I must have told a thousand times already on here. I used to know a lad called Jon who got his driving license as soon as he legally could, nothing wrong with that. He got his first car which was a sporty hatchback, again nothing wrong with that. But what he did do, was have a tendency to race around rural roads regularly, he was a good driver, I used to race with him on a track in karts and I'd seen him race in cars and he'd even done some junior rallying. His knowledge of cars, engines, how to control a car was better than anyone elses that I've personally known. But he thought that meant he wouldn't get into trouble driving fast on the streets, and I mean fast. 50mph+ on a 30mph rural road ect. But you cannot prepare for the unexpected, and one night, he didn't expect there to be a woman by the road round a corner in a 20mph zone and he hit her. She was pregnant, and I mean
was because the impact killed the baby. He was just a kid who thought he could handle driving that fast in a car and had
made that choice. That choice killed someone and it was not him.
HONESTLY, if your parents offered you an STI for your first car you would not take it?
Honeslty I don't know, I'd probably have asked for a cheap car and the insurance to be paid instead.
With all of this talk of us avoiding the wreck by means of driving skill, how many of you have avoided a potential wreck in the moment of it occuring in the first place?
I've never put myself in the position where I've had to avoid a potential wreck.
We did gain control, if you refer back to my DETAILS post...but we used the whole road to do so, and the oncoming car was a root cause to the later sequence of events.
The oncoming car was not a root cause for the events, you losing control and ending up on the wrong side of the road was the root cause, if you hadn't lost control the crash wouldn't have happened.
there is no posted speed limit on the road in which the wreck occured. I talked to my friend who was driving and he said the officer had to look up the limit in the days that followed.
Read the highway code, that will tell you what the speed limit of a rural/urban road with no posted limit will be, you should have been taught that before you passed your test.
And to those of you talking of taking the car to the limit, that was not our intention in the first place, far from it, an abrupt slight counter steering movement may have been what caused the car to lose control...
Which mean you took the car beyond it's limits, because control was lost.
Do you know your limits my friend? Because the engine sound from a 300 hp turbocharged flat four is like the song of a siren...
Which is no reason to go 2.5 times the speed limit.
I know you wern't asking me but anyway, I drive a VW Bora V5 and a Pugeot 306 1.9 TDi.
It will be a year since the wreck, this saturday, this by no means was a call for sympathy, just an educated discussion
Which is good, because sympathy is the last thing I'd expect if I was in your shoes
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and responsible beginner with afresh licence should not drive a STI right from the start. The handling, the brakes, everything is first class, which is imo a safety bonus. 
