File under "poor judgment"

[BrianFromWA]

PARIS -- A French newspaper is reporting that American forward Charlie Davies, who nearly died in a car crash last year, was caught speeding at 125 miles per hour last weekend.

The website of Le Progres newspaper reported Friday that Davies was driving an Audi Q7 last Sunday when he was caught on a motorway in France's Jura region.

Davies, who plays for French club Sochaux, was involved in a car accident on Oct. 13, 2009, that killed another passenger and left him severely hurt. He was not the driver.

He suffered two broken bones in his right leg, a broken and dislocated left elbow, a broken nose, forehead and eye socket, a ruptured bladder and bleeding on the brain.

The 24-year-old missed the World Cup.

The highest speed limit in France is 130 kph (80mph).

 

[OSUBlazerfan]

Dumb ass

 

[ehizzy3]

he still hasn't really made a comeback from the accident. it's a sad story

 

[BrianFromWA]

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/ne...covering-teammate-driving-car-125-mphAmerican

so it seems that he wasn't driving:

forward Charlie Davies says he was not the driver of a car stopped going 125 mph last weekend, but told French police he was in order to protect a teammate.

Davies, who nearly died in a car crash last year, told The Associated Press Saturday that Jacques Faty, a teammate at French club Sochaux, asked him to switch places and tell police he was driving because Faty thought his license was still suspended from a previous speeding infraction. Faty said he thought police would only fine Davies, but Faty feared he would be jailed.

"That's not possible for me to go 120 mph on the road after an accident and think everything will be fine," Davies said. "If a kid survives such a serious accident and then almost exactly a year later is driving at a reckless speed, it's like, 'This can't be serious.' ... If someone gets a second chance like I do, to take advantage of something like that, it's not something I could do. I learned too much from the whole experience to let something like that happen."

So to get this straight...after being a passenger in a fatal collision, you "learned too much from the experience"...so you were a willing passenger in a car going 125mph and covered for the driver when told that the driver probably had a suspended license.

 

[barfo]

http://espn.go.com/sports/soccer/ne...covering-teammate-driving-car-125-mphAmerican

so it seems that he wasn't driving:



So to get this straight...after being a passenger in a fatal collision, you "learned too much from the experience"...so you were a willing passenger in a car going 125mph and covered for the driver when told that the driver probably had a suspended license.

Should depend on the driver. Some people I'm pretty comfortable with at 125, some people you couldn't pay me enough to get in the car with them.
Giving the cops false data is probably poor judgment no matter how you slice it though.

barfo

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Should depend on the driver. Some people I'm pretty comfortable with at 125, some people you couldn't pay me enough to get in the car with them.
Giving the cops false data is probably poor judgment no matter how you slice it though.

barfo

Some years ago ABM was driving my car at about 125mph south on I-205. He was taking that sweeping curve between the Willamette river and West Linn and inertia took him all the way to the guard rail. I thought we were going to buy it, but he kept the car under control and pulled us out of it. Last time I let him drive that car.

 

[Colonel Ronan]

Fool of a Took.