An eight-year-old boy was knocked down and killed after two garage workers who were supposed to be fixing a £70,000 Porsche allegedly took it for a ride.
Whoops!
David White, customer services director at Kwik Fit, which is 200 yards from the accident site, said: 'Our deepest sympathies are with Ryan's family at this tragic time.
We are helping the police with their enquiries and in addition a senior management team has travelled to Maldon to carry out our own investigation.'
I foresee a large lawsuit coming their way, if this turns out to have been how the accident happened…
Ah, but this is a Mail story.
ReplyDeleteLeave out the prose, and substitute "old transit van" for "£70,000 porsche". Now it's a simple tragedy, an RTA on a mechanic's test drive. Hardly even newsworthy?
Except that, with an old Transit, it would have indeed have been a 'mechanic's test drive'. With the Porsche, it's likely to have involved a little more than 'does it work?' The fact it needed two of them to evaluate the effectiveness of the repair suggests it was something more than checking the brakes in a side-street.
ReplyDeleteThiose boys are in trouble, and rightly so.
It is common practise for police to crash sequestered high powered vehicles in the course of 'exhilerating road tests'.
ReplyDeleteThe Annals of Police Excuses are certain to hold material of interest to Kwik Fit lawyers.
*exhilarating*
ReplyDeleteA Porsche owner took his car to Kwikfit? It's that credit crunch again . . .
ReplyDeleteI personally know of four very similar events. All four resulted in destruction of the cars. One resulted in the death of the driver. Fortunately no children or pedestrians were involved.
ReplyDeletePunishment of the perps by employers and the state was variable.
The cars were a Maserati, a Cosworth, a souped up Injection Capri and an RS 4x4 Sierra
The faster the car, the greater the skill and circumspection required of the driver.
If you jump into a powerful car having never driven similar before, you are taking a great risk. You do not realise the speeds you are doing and you have a misplaced idea of the efficacy of the brakes and steering.
I was the driver of the 4x4 Sierra.
The deceased was a young policeman
PS. What kind of idiot leaves a £70k Porsche with Kwik-Fit?
Theoretically, I'm right. But in practise, Richard is. I yield.
ReplyDeleteI just had my old transit "fixed". If the mechanic had been willing to test-drive it, he'd have found he hadn't done any good!
"PS. What kind of idiot leaves a £70k Porsche with Kwik-Fit?"
ReplyDeleteI was wondering that. Exhaust? Surely a special order, not your usual stock item. Brakes the same. It can only be tyres, although if I could afford £70k for a car (heh) I think I'd splash the extra few quid and have a dealer take care of it, if only for the service continuity. Unless perhaps it is an old Porsche, and the £70k is some journalist's lazy researching? Something doesn't quite fit here.
Something doesn't quite Kwik-Fit, even.
ReplyDeleteSorry.
"It is common practise for police to crash sequestered high powered vehicles in the course of 'exhilerating road tests'. "
ReplyDeleteThere was a recent one in the news, wasn't there?
"A Porsche owner took his car to Kwikfit?"
I DID wonder about that...
"The faster the car, the greater the skill and circumspection required of the driver."
And playing 'Gran Turismo' is no substitute for real life. There are no 'save games' in the real world...
"Something doesn't quite Kwik-Fit, even."
:)