Mud-bogging SUV crashes, explodes, killing 4

[DS1]

Source: CNN

GRIFFIN, Georgia (AP) -- A sport utility vehicle speeding down a muddy road slammed into trees and exploded, killing four people, including two children, and injuring two others, authorities said.

Investigators believe alcohol, recent rain and reckless driving may have been factors in Friday night's crash of the Ford Bronco, which burned completely, state Trooper J.T. McMillan said.

"They were out there, playing around, mud-bogging on the dirt road," McMillan said. "They got stuck in the dirt and were pulled out by a dump truck. They sped off down the road and the driver struck two trees."

The SUV was traveling around 70 mph at impact, and the occupants weren't wearing seat belts, he said.

The Georgia State Patrol had not released the victims' names but identified them as a 24-year-old woman who was driving, a 36-year-old woman, a 2-year-old boy and a 4-year-old girl. The children were riding in the back seat.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/29/mudding.crash.ap/index.html

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What a waste of a family.

[emilyg]

1. Dumb decisions.

[meowomon]

2. Good God!

We Southerners can be so stupid. Those poor kids.

[JI7]

3. playing around like that with kids in the car

it's bad enough to do it in the first place.

[orleans]

4. mud-bogging? mud-bogging? what the fuck is mud-bogging?

and the tow truck had no clue they were drinking?

[truthisfreedom]

5. mind-boggling.

[Submariner]

7. Mud bogging is driving through the loosest mud

as fast as you can to see if you can make it through the muck without getting stuck, and throwing up as much mud as possible with your tires into the air or on the 4WD itself. It all makes sense now...right....until one wraps one self around a tree, taking some innocent victims with them for good measure.

[roseBudd]

12. From gardening I know enough about how wet soil should be handled to know mud bogging

ruins soil. Idiocracy is already here.

[Bigmack]

18. Idiocracy...

posting just to make sure folks have the URL of the great into to the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upyewL0oaWA

[bunkerbuster1]

20. I may have to see that movie again

It was hard to watch the first time, and I didn't think much of it overall, but it's one of those films that has you thinking about it an awful lot afterward.

[0007]

17. Fucking with alcohol and flirting with danger under adverse conditions

such as muddy road and knee deep muddy fields.

IOW Mud-bogging = idiotic in-breeding

[GCP]

6. What a stupid needless tragedy

Those kids didn't deserve to die like that. :grr:

[MadHound]

8. Evolution in action

I know that sounds cruel and heartless, but when you're drunk, driving recklessly and not taking the proper safety precautions, what it essentially boils down to is that you're too stupid to live. A shame that the driver took the kids out with him, they didn't deserve to die.

[Toots]

9. I would say a perfect case of reckless endangerment.

Stupid is as Stupid does..

[BearSquirrel2]

10. Darwin Nomination ...

I nominate this couple for a Darwin award and two retro-active Darwin Awards.

[Phentex]

21. sadly, I thought the same thing...

those 2 little kids WANTED to be doing this?

Beyond stupid.

[ileus]

11. 70 mph isn't mud bogging...

70mph is being a dumbass....

Here's a pic of our club out yesterday. Sometimes the wheels may spin at 70 but the rigs normally do 1-5mph.

[JBoy]

13. A little more on the story

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/12/29/muddeaths_1230.html

"Two of the women's husbands had just helped get the Bronco out of the mud but, in the process, had gotten their dump truck stuck in a ditch, the trooper said. While the men tried to extricate themselves, Guffey and her passengers sped off in the Bronco.

A short distance away, Guffey lost control, and the Bronco went off the road and hit one tree and then another before bursting into flames, McMillan said. The husbands came upon the wreck on their way home and called 911.

The crash was reported around 11 p.m. on a curvy, narrow stretch of Lunsford Road that is lined with trees."


Who the fuck would subject their children to this kind of lunacy? "A short distance away, Guffey lost control.."? No, Ms. Guffey and all these adults lost control long before that.

[bigworld]

14. The crash site for you google earthers: 33°25'30.66"N 83°55'26.11"W

[theredpen]

15. This is a tale of redneck female empowerment

Typically, it would have been the husbands who crashed the SUV and the poor wives would have discovered the crash. It's nice to see that women are making progress in the dumbshit redneck community.
:hide:

[City Lights]

16. WTF were these people thinking?

What kind of asshole do you have to be do this with kids in the vehicle? Chalking it up to being clueless idiots just doesn't cut it here. :wtf:

[DemoTex]

19. I grew up in Griffin, Ga., and my parents still live there.

When describing Griffin, I often use the term "atavistic." Griffin is, indeed, home to a passel of redneck throwbacks. Griffin is a "Sonny Perdue" kind of place. Government, politics, religion and culture in Griffin are pretty much stereotypical of Georgia (if not downright Tobacco Road).

British humorist Tom Sharpe must have been thinking of Griffin when he described a South African town as being "half as big as a New York City cemetery, and twice as dead."

Too bad about the kids. They never had a chance.

[NYC_SKP]

22. 70 MPH is not mud-bogging...

And with a 2 year and 4 year old boy and girl?