Slow Down Please

[Fogey]

Senior moment, ZR1 (edit)http://www.ocregister.com/news/corve...ice-brown.html

[CamaroSkooter]

[Partick]

"weaving in and out of traffic at 150mph" and drunk to boot Came close to a Darwin Award. He should never be allowed behind the wheel of a car again. EPIC Fail

[brandotron]

Man, what a shame. I live right by there and I heard a bunch of sirens last night. Guess that's what it was.

[2010 SSRS]

Weaving in & out at 150mph rearending someone and causing a spinout, sounds like a Carl Edwards fan.

[Mr Smith]

Originally Posted by 2010 SSRS

Weaving in & out at 150mph rearending someone and causing a spinout, sounds like a Carl Edwards fan.

DOH!

[IOM-SS]

HUNTINGTON BEACH – A Corvette driver who rear-ended an Infinti G35 Tuesday night, sending both cars into the Bolsa Chica wetlands, had to be rescued from his car, and was later arrested, police said.
Melvin Brown, 52, of Garden Grove, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. The Infiniti driver - Alfredo Garcia, 29, of Huntington Beach - was taken to the hospital with complaints of pain.
Around 10:15 p.m., Brown was driving his brand-new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 west on Pacific Coast Highway, weaving in and out of traffic at around 150 mph, police said.
About a mile south of Warner Avenue, the Corvette rear-ended the Infiniti, causing both cars to spin out of control and into the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, police said. Both cars went into the water on the inland side of PCH. The Infinti was partially submerged and the Corvette slipped all the way under water.

:5thgenvert:

[Partick]

Originally Posted by 2010 SSRS

Weaving in & out at 150mph rearending someone and causing a spinout, sounds like a Carl Edwards fan.

When I started reading it I thought they were talking about Robbie Gordon

[superstockcam]

Too bad he didn't get it over with! hope he looses his licence for 10 years and has an imposed lifetime 55mph speed governor installed on all his vehicles!

[Robert91RS]

Those pics are not of a Z06 or ZR1. lol just sayin.

[volboy23]

He should lose his license for a long time. If they ever give it back to him he should be required to drive an old hooptie that struggles to get to 55.

[Moorepheus]

People like this do not deserve nice cars like that. Take his license away from him, make him ride a bicycle, it's about his speed.

[CamaroSkooter]

Originally Posted by Robert91RS

Those pics are not of a Z06 or ZR1. lol just sayin.

I believe you are right. Looks like a Coupe. The rims are wrong for the ZR1, Z06, or even the Grand Sport.

[Robert91RS]

I'm just playing devils advocate here but if they were wrong about the type of cars in the accident how quickly should we make judgement. How do we know he was going 150(it says about 150, so which civilian driver radared him or is it possible a passerby exagerated for the nice reporter)? It also says there was a blood suger monitor inside the car, have you ever seen the syptoms of a diabetic behind the wheel when there blood suger is off? They appear drunk. Besides he was arrested under suspicion of driving drunk. Again I'm just sayin by now we should now that the media writes thing you will want to read, not always the truth.

[CamaroSkooter]

Valid point. Don't diabetics usually wear a bracelet or have a sticker on their DL that indicates this?

[Robert91RS]

Originally Posted by CamaroSkooter

Valid point. Don't diabetics usually wear a bracelet or have a sticker on their DL that indicates this?

Depends on the state they live in but they are frequently involved in some of the most famous police chases and accidents because of there altered sense of awareness. If they are hyperglycemic they can even smell drunk because of the sweet smell on there breath.

[TJ91]

that is a corvette, looks like a c6 convetible but definitly a vette

[Mindz]

Drinking + Driving = Accidents and most of the time death...

Driving like your at a track, on public roads is retarded...

[Steve Dallas]

Originally Posted by Partick

When I started reading it I thought they were talking about Robbie Gordon

I was thinking Kyle Busch

[BEARS-SS]

So the moral of the story is...Corvettes sink faster then Infinitis? Noted

[MikeSVX]

Originally Posted by Robert91RS

Those pics are not of a Z06 or ZR1. lol just sayin.

Hard to tell, but going by the Brake Rotors I agree. Not a GS either, but not a convertible either. I can't tell if its a Targa top of if the roof just popped off (it's does happen).

[CamaroSkooter]

Don't all of the C6 Vettes have the targa top that can be removed?

[ElManny]

man Poor ZR1 :(

[Ravirn]

There was a monitoring device for diabetes inside the Corvette, authorities said.

Sounds like a case of insulin shock (hypoglycemic reaction). It's happened to my father who's been diabetic for 50 years, now.
Too much sugar causes him to drift towards a diabetic coma (sleepiness, weariness, confusion, drowsiness).
Too much insulin has the opposite effect (fast breathing, fast pulse, dizziness, aggression).
Too much sugar will cause your breath to sweeten. Too much insulin causes your entire body to emit a sickly sweet odor (the excess insulin has no where to go, so some of it will be secreted through your sweat glands).
Not a pleasant situation, in either case.

My "guess" is that his arrest was to keep him at the hospital for observation. Normally, once blood sugar levels are brought back to normal, a patient is discharged. My father was once arrested on "suspicion of public drunkenness" simply to keep him in the hospital under observation until the doctors said he was fit to leave. While a person's insulin/blood sugar levels are out of whack, there is no rational thinking going on. If this was the case here, he should of had a medicalert bracelet on to notify EMTs to his condition. If he didn't, he's a fool, plain and simple.

[sask-man]

another drunk driver...sheesh