Man kills himself before emergency services arrive after crash that claimed the lives of two friends
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[quote]A 24-year-old kiwi who survived a crash on a remote western Australian road that killed his two best mates tragically took his own life before help arrived.
Australian police have confirmed while the bodies of three New Zealand men were found near the wreckage of their rolled ute on Saturday only two died in the crash.
In a shocking twist police say the driver, Kadin Wallace, survived the accident but took his own life before emergency services arrived at the scene.
More details are emerging of a deadly night hunting trip on an unsealed stretch of the Lake King-Norseman Road in western Australia.
It is believed 24-year-old Mr Wallace was driving the Toyota Hilux dual-cab when it rolled, leaving the vehicle badly damaged on its roof and passenger's side.
Paramedics weren't called to the crash site 400km south-east of Perth until daybreak after a passing driver came across the wreck several hours after the accident happened.
Western Australian police confirmed last night that two of the men were fatally injured when the ute rolled but a third died of "injuries that he did not receive in the crash".
The trio - Dylan Sherriff, Jeremy Vergeer and Kadin Wallace, all from Southland - were childhood friends who had travelled to Australia to work on farms. They were aged 24 and 25.[/quote]
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Damn, it's almost unbelievable, and too think he probably left family behind doing so.
His friends were probably all he had and would rather take his own life than deal with the guilt of having killed them, even if it was by accident.
This is horribly depressing and makes me think about what i would do if i was in a situation like this with my best friend
[QUOTE=sourcegamer101;49897218]His friends were probably all he had and would rather take his own life than deal with the guilt of having killed them, even if it was by accident.
This is horribly depressing and makes me think about what i would do if i was in a situation like this with my best friend[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing extreme negligence. You shouldn't be going fast enough on an unsealed road to ever flip.
[QUOTE=GunFox;49897235]I'm guessing extreme negligence. You shouldn't be going fast enough on an unsealed road to ever flip.[/QUOTE]
You could here, but that's because the unsealed road is loose ass gravel on top of a steep ass levee.
Jeez, that's a real tragedy, what a grim thing to realize.
How horrible... perhaps he was in extreme pain and knew paramedics wouldn't come for hours or more and decided to end it early rather than bleed out or wait injured by a car with two of his friends dead inside.
Christ that is fucked.
How did he kill himself? Christ that's horrible.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;49897311]How did he kill himself? Christ that's horrible.[/QUOTE]
Wondered the same. Probably won't release it, but since it was a hunting trip and they're so certain he didn't die from injuries sustained in the crash we can probably assume it was a gun.
[QUOTE=GunFox;49897235]I'm guessing extreme negligence. You shouldn't be going fast enough on an unsealed road to ever flip.[/QUOTE]
We really don't know enough about the story or exact location to say that.
By unsealed, I'm assuming gravel/dirt. At least in the US, gravel roads have limits as high as 55MPH. On those roads, you can safely travel that speed.
However, at 55MPH, all it would take is a sharp rock gouging your tire open to cause an event like this.
[QUOTE=FordLord;49899949]We really don't know enough about the story or exact location to say that.
By unsealed, I'm assuming gravel/dirt. At least in the US, gravel roads have limits as high as 55MPH. On those roads, you can safely travel that speed.
However, at 55MPH, all it would take is a sharp rock gouging your tire open to cause an event like this.[/QUOTE]
He was driving a car with a higher centre of gravity and with a tray bed likely with nothing in it so I reckon he probably hit the corner too fast and tipped over, while it is sad it's avoidable by knowing your vehicles limits and driving cautiously.
I've crashed like a billion times driving a hilux on gravel. That thing doesn't stick to gravel like other cars. The fastest I'll ever drive on gravel on these days is 50km/h and more and you'll start sliding around.
Australian gravel roads always look smooth and open, and those conditions have the tendency to implore some people on driving really fast on it, upwards of 100km/h.
Damn, this is like some shit out of an Ancient Greek epic poem.
Tbh though, if the crash killed his 2 friends, then he was pobably pretty banged up himself, so maybe he though he wasn't going to make it
I knew a guy who was in a street race and he crashed. He had two passengers, one in the front in the passenger seat and one guy in back. When he crashed, he spun and the car impacted going backwards, so the guy in the back was essentially splattered across the back seat. After they arrived, the cops dragged him to his car and made him look at his friend, I suppose to teach him a lesson. He became suicidal, his parents protested what the cops did, it was a huge mess.
Moral: sometimes regular people can't handle what accident victims look like and if he had a gun at that moment...
I mean, wouldn't [I]you[/I] kill yourself of you killed two of your friends?
[QUOTE=AtomicSans;49912053]I mean, wouldn't [I]you[/I] kill yourself of you killed two of your friends?[/QUOTE]
I most likely would especially since two of my closest friends is my girlfriend. My other friend I dearly love like a sister. It would be one thing if they died of other causes but if I was the one who killed them I think the guilt would eventually kill me if I didn't do it myself at the scene of the incident.
What a horrible tragedy and I hope the families and friends these guys left behind can find comfort and peace.
[QUOTE=FordLord;49899949]We really don't know enough about the story or exact location to say that.
By unsealed, I'm assuming gravel/dirt. At least in the US, gravel roads have limits as high as 55MPH. On those roads, you can safely travel that speed.
However, at 55MPH, all it would take is a sharp rock gouging your tire open to cause an event like this.[/QUOTE]
In other words, you can't safely travel at that speed.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;49910510]I knew a guy who was in a street race and he crashed. He had two passengers, one in the front in the passenger seat and one guy in back. When he crashed, he spun and the car impacted going backwards, so the guy in the back was essentially splattered across the back seat. After they arrived, the cops dragged him to his car and made him look at his friend, I suppose to teach him a lesson. He became suicidal, his parents protested what the cops did, it was a huge mess.
Moral: sometimes regular people can't handle what accident victims look like and if he had a gun at that moment...[/QUOTE]
literally fucking brutal
[QUOTE=FordLord;49899949]We really don't know enough about the story or exact location to say that.
By unsealed, I'm assuming gravel/dirt. At least in the US, gravel roads have limits as high as 55MPH. On those roads, you can safely travel that speed.
However, at 55MPH, all it would take is a sharp rock gouging your tire open to cause an event like this.[/QUOTE]
You can't really generalize "gravel roads" like that. Just like you can't generalize asphalt roads by saying "you can safely travel on any normal road at 100mph". Every road is different.
[editline]11th March 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;49910510]I knew a guy who was in a street race and he crashed. He had two passengers, one in the front in the passenger seat and one guy in back. When he crashed, he spun and the car impacted going backwards, so the guy in the back was essentially splattered across the back seat. After they arrived, the cops dragged him to his car and made him look at his friend, I suppose to teach him a lesson. He became suicidal, his parents protested what the cops did, it was a huge mess.
Moral: sometimes regular people can't handle what accident victims look like and if he had a gun at that moment...[/QUOTE]
What the fuck, dude. Fuck the cops that did that.
[QUOTE=Da Bomb76;49909743]Damn, this is like some shit out of an Ancient Greek epic poem.[/QUOTE]
More Shakespearean to me.
[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;49897311]How did he kill himself? Christ that's horrible.[/QUOTE]
I'm thinking he probably cut himself with a piece of broken glass and bled out. May he rest in peace.
Huh, Driver goes down with the car. Understandable. It's a lot of problems that you would of had to deal with.
[QUOTE=FetusFondler;49912576]You can't really generalize "gravel roads" like that. Just like you can't generalize asphalt roads by saying "you can safely travel on any normal road at 100mph". Every road is different.
[editline]11th March 2016[/editline]
What the fuck, dude. Fuck the cops that did that.[/QUOTE]
I thought about what those cops did for a long time. It eventually occurred to me that cops and other first responders see this kind of thing all the time. It probably pisses them off when it's needless, like due to drunk driving or street racing. So they probably got fed up with it and unleashed that anger on my friend. That doesn't make it right but it would explain why they did it.
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