I finished work early today, so I decided to go for a bit of ride up to Copperlode Dam Road up behind Cairns City, This road is about 16km's long and a real tight twisty bit of road that leads to the city's main water supply, it is mainly 1st and 2nd gear tight and twisty road, with some really nasty corners if your not careful also this road is overgrown and is covered in leaf and tree debris all year round, it's a fun ride if you take it easy and don't try to get the knee down, just have fun flowing from one corner to the next,

One corner about 7 or 8 corners from the bottom is a real nasty piece of work, as you climb the hill it starts off as a gentle right that is nice and wide but suddenly tightens up really quickly as you go around the mountain.

I know the road pretty well and of course didn't go fast/silly and made it around the corner fine.

But, someone else didn't





It was a nice new Spiffy Ford Falcon XR8, I quickly stopped the bike and parked, Yelled out if anyone was in there, no response, called  , Accident happened this morning, car was stolen, The road is well known to local  as a place where stolen cars are taken, flogged, and left where they die.
Another one bites the dust, make the beast with two backsin Thieves should be shot!

wow

That would have freaked me out specially if someone was still inside the car

Poor car!

Man, what Rob typed brought me back to an instance I come on during the spring while I was riding my dirt bike at Frank Raines.  We came down a really rocky, nasty decent next to a ravine.  When we got to the bottom we looked to our left and saw a jeep upside down and smashed to pieces.  To all of our shock there was a body hanging out the side.  We stopped, dropped our bikes and were about ready to climb down the hill when we saw another rider up above us on the other side of the ravine.  We shouted over to ask if anyone had been down there yet.  What they said next was one of  the most shocking things I've ever heard.  The rider yelled back that the person was dead.  As that settled in we started to survey the scene and saw some oxygen tanks that had kinda blended in with all the other parts from the jeep.  Apparently the paramedics had already been there and removed another person from the jeep to try to get them to the medivac. 

I gotta say... it was a really eery experience.  Not a feeling I ever want to have again. I can only imagine if we had really been the first ones at the scene.  Both the man and the woman from the jeep ended up passing.  RIP.

Must admit, it had me very worried and concerned when I first saw it, 2 tiny little trees supporting the weight of this 2 ton car, and the angle it was on meant getting someone out would not have been easy.
But thankfully the car was empty, the thieves made it out before the police could arrive.
Put me off my ride though, thought it was safer to go home rather than ride up this road thinking about the crash, which could distract me, and then over I go! 

i really, really, dislike thieves 

i am glad the car was empty though 

woah... so that is a deep enbankment that that Falcon is stuck down? I wonder if they crashed down into there or, it was pushed. It still seems in pretty good nick. - Chris

They used to hang horse thieves. Kinda miss that, wasn't much horse thieving going on....

Too bad the thieves weren't caught (not necessarily wounded).  THe tow bill and the insurance replacement bills couls have been given to them rather than to us!!

I get tired of paying for everyone else's fun......

Quote from: CIE on July 02, 2008, 01:20:54 PM
Man, what Rob typed brought me back to an instance I come on during the spring while I was riding my dirt bike at Frank Raines.  We came down a really rocky, nasty decent next to a ravine.  When we got to the bottom we looked to our left and saw a jeep upside down and smashed to pieces.  To all of our shock there was a body hanging out the side.  We stopped, dropped our bikes and were about ready to climb down the hill when we saw another rider up above us on the other side of the ravine.  We shouted over to ask if anyone had been down there yet.  What they said next was one of  the most shocking things I've ever heard.  The rider yelled back that the person was dead.  As that settled in we started to survey the scene and saw some oxygen tanks that had kinda blended in with all the other parts from the jeep.  Apparently the paramedics had already been there and removed another person from the jeep to try to get them to the medivac. 

I gotta say... it was a really eery experience.  Not a feeling I ever want to have again. I can only imagine if we had really been the first ones at the scene.  Both the man and the woman from the jeep ended up passing.  RIP.

If you would have been the first ones that would have been the worst nightmare... to me at least..