I just was watching the news and they had a segment of this street race

that ended up with a fatality and one of the cars happen to be a black 2-door scion...
and that car ended up fleeing the scene.
Hope its not someone here on the forums....and if you happen to read please turn yourself in..

here is the link

http://www.fox11.com/stories/news/oc.crash.asp


I hope family and friends are ok tonight

 

yipe... ... things like this degrade our community. i can't believe how fast our cars are turning into "hondas".... it's sad frankly.

hope the family and friends of the victims are ok as well.

prayers out. hope justice is served.

 

i was just gonna post about that asking if anybody knew anything. my dad was telling me that he heard about that on cnn last night or something. *tisk tisk* freaking idiots

 

Thats horrible.

 

We were just getting over that last incident with the guy in the M3 and now this... If your on here, you should be smart enough to not race on the streets, let alone a VW beetle.

 

Oh wow!! Well that Beetle was street racing too. But still hope they find that BSP tC!! O/T: WTH a shooting in Long Beach sometimes I hate saying I'm from LB when stuff like this happens!

 

Well as u know there are alot of scions looking for clubs, just keep an eye out for the ones with tinted windows and black paint job, with a rear spoiler i hate illegal street racers, they are lame ___'s, but thats why i always say know who ur bringing into ur club b4 u end up with a illegal street racer with ur club stickers on it.....

-David

 

hmm.. tint, bsp, rear spoiler... oh yeah.. that narrows it down..

damn.

 

Hold up! WTF is a Beetle doing racing a Scion? For all you wanna be racers out there, this should be your wake-up call. Do what I do: if you're at a stop light, and some posers pull up next to you revving their engine, just let them go first. I hate dip sh#ts who do that to me. I'd rather be alive and well instead of being 6 feet deep.

 

tru that...

and the description is horrible, i fit it.

however i havent been in LA of LB for like two months

 

To the dude or dudete out there still running free.

I talk to Paul Walker and Vin Diesal and they want there copies back of "The Fast and Furious".

They also told me you didn't make the cut for the Fast and Furious 4.

So my recomendation is pull the car off the streets hang your keys and turn yourself in.

You made Scion a bad name already.

 

Racing a 40+ year old man?

 

yea that was so sad the racing accident....yea it happen in garden grove rite on lampson and western and that is like 5 minutes away from my house...i heard it was a scion tc racing an old vw bug....and i guess the owner of the bug was well known around town here...so its such a tradgey what happen that day...thats why you shouldn't do it illegal just go to the race track put innocent people in the way of gettin hurt or even dyin for just being there and not having anything to do

 

Police search for man tied to deadly drag race in Orange County

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) -- Police in Orange County are searching for the driver of a Toyota who they say was involved in a deadly drag race.

Police say 46-year-old Mark Herbert died in a head-on crash in Garden Grove Friday night while racing the driver of a black Toyota Scion. Herbert, of Fullerton, lost control of his V-W Beetle and hit a Nissan sedan at an intersection.

The driver of the two-door Scion -- which had tinted windows and a spoiler on the trunk -- fled the scene.

The 56-year-old Westminster woman who was driving the Nissan remains in critical condition at UCI Medical Center.

Herbert had achieved underground celebrity for his skills at souping up Volkswagen Beetles to race at drag strips. Fans from the United States, Canada and Europe posted more than 100 messages online mourning Herbert's death.

(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

 

His underground success put him underground--should have stayed on the track--a real tragedy for all.........

 

Really sucks to hear about that. I just hope people don't all of a sudden start racing or trying to drift when Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift comes out this Friday. If your going to race, PLEASE do it on a track! I had a run in with a FM tC owner the other night who wanted to race me. Not too smart to be doing that less than 1/4 of mile from a Sheriff station.

 

With idiots like this and that tool that hit the school bus, it makes you wonder who is teaching these fools how to drive in the first place. I've done some wild stuff but have never came close to doing anything like these 2 idiots have.

 

It always sucks to hear this ,no matter what the circumstances keep it on the track lets also pray the lady pulls through. The description is vague to say the least but the concious of this individual will catch up with them.

 

I just came across this site and thread through a search on the accident that claimed Mark Herbert's life in Garden Grove. And yes, I will concurr with those of you who have stated how ridiculously stupid and dangerous street racing is, as I completely and wholeheartedly could not agree more.

The reason I posted here, as a rep of the VW scene, is that there seems to be widespread beliefs and substantiated rumors that the other vehicle involved in that race was NOT a Scion but a black GTO...which, no offense to Scion owners as I'm well aware of the performance options available for Scions, seems to be more likely the case, given the performance capabilities of Mark's Volkswagens.
There also seems to be some who believe that other factors were at play other than a street racing event, but at this point I'm inclined to believe that the investigator's summation is probably accurate.


I only quoted your statement because I wasn't sure if this was an acknowledgement to the fact that air-cooled VWs can be extremely potent or if you think they're a joke, but ultimately I guess it really doesn't matter? After all, we are in agreement that street racing is a stupid thing to engage in, especially when innocent victims not involved are injured, as in this case.

Anyway, just figured I'd throw that out there. For further details, you can visit www.cal-look.com, as there's an extensive thread over there on this incident. Thanks.

 

no need to apologize on thinking u might offend anyone about the whoile performance.....

those GTO could get beefy..lol

anyways I hope the investigation does go thru to find the one responsible.....being such a coward and fleeing the scene

my prayers for all