Fatal crash's grim bumper sticker strikes rawest nerve - Stuff.co.nz
A grim bumper sticker on the mangled car in a fatal Hawke's Bay car crash has shocked emergency workers who attended the tragic scene. Back-seat passenger Jesse Uncles, 21, died on August 8 when the 1997 Silver Mitsubishi Lancer he was in struck a tree on the roadside near Clive before catapulting back onto the road. The driver, a 21-year-old man, and another man, aged 22, suffered moderate injuries. "As officers picked up the pieces, they saw a sticker on the car that said 'If I die speeding don't cry because I was smiling'. The 1997 Silver Mitsubishi Lancer involved in a crash near Clive on August 8 that killed back-seat passenger Jesse Uncles, 21. . He said the crash that claimed Uncles was one of many involving young people recently that could easily have resulted... "If the drivers or passengers of these cars could see how a parent reacts when they see their child in a mortuary, or hear what a parent says as they hold the hand of their dead child, they might realise how mindless their actions were, and how... Last month, police attended a crash south of Hastings where a car full of six young people, one of whom was in the boot, rolled three times into a paddock and narrowly missed a concrete culvert. Source: www.stuff.co.nz
