Drunk Lambo Driver Kills Uber Driver in Delray

This is one of my biggest fears: Someone doing something extremely reckless kills a loved one.

Poor guy just minding his own business and gets taken out. Not fair. The driver should have died, not the older gentleman.

 

I hope they throw the book at him. Drink if you want, but do not get behind the wheel.

 

Same with texting. They need to really up the punishment for these nitwits who drive and text, send/read email while driving and play games while driving. Bad enough no one in Florida signals and the roads are flooded with peole who should not be behind the wheel of a car.

 

I agree 100%.

 

There's another pity here

The reason this is news is because it's a Lambo. This sort of thing happens every day and doesn't get reported with a Camry or a Chevy.

I wish they covered every drunk driving death equally and harshly.

 

Where I come from they do. But there's no doubt that the make of automobile doesn't make it into the headline unless it's something that elicits some emotion.....usually resentment or envy.

 

Well, a couple of things here before everyone starts condemning the Lamborghini driver.

I know none of the parties involved, directly or indirectly. The whole thing stinks all the way around. I'll also start by saying that drinking and driving is absolutely abhorrent and there is no excuse whatsoever for anyone to do it. Neither is there any excuse for reckless speeding in a highly traveled area and intersection where this is inevitable cross traffic. I have no sympathy for anyone who does eithere. However, the Lambo driver had the right of way (no stop sign) and the Uber driver clearly drove into the intersection without looking carefully for oncoming northbound traffic, even if he did stop at his stop sign.

I don't know what's going to happen but let's not conveniently leave out a couple of crucial facts that the Palm Beach Post did.

 

The Lambo driver was way over the speed limit, it's his fault. Of all people you should know sight-lines are greatly affected by speed. The 82 yr old did stop, and he probably looked in the direction of the Lambo and guess what? There was not a car to be seen that was close enough to be a problem. Even if he noticed the Lambo, it would appear it was way to far from the intersection to be a problem, unless he was grossly speeding.
And then to top it off, the perps girlfriend hangs a right turn and flees, without even checking on the well being of her boyfriend or the real victim, even though she saw the horrific crash. Why would she flee unless she was afraid of another DUI?

I don't think I'm going out on a limb to say this is all on the Lambo driver, and his girlfriend is a loser.

 

I didn't say it wasn't the Lambo driver's fault. All I said that there are two additional facts that no one is mentioning (right of way and the stop sign). I don't care how fast someone is going; those two points are still a fact. Speed can be the overriding factor and the deciding factor of who's at fault but that doesn't change right of way and a stop sign. The fact that they aren't mentioned is curious, to say the least.

I"m not saying this happened but I have driven in Delray Beach and had elderly people stop and stop signs and pull out right in front of me as if I weren't even there. I know that's a shocker, right? Anyways, I'm not saying that's what happened here but I've seen it repeatedly with my own eyes. I'm just not saying that it couldn't have happened that way.

Also, it sounds like you know how fast he was going. By reading the article, I couldn't discern if by "speeding" he was doing 45 mph or 145 mph. You seem to know a lot more than the article said so can you please let us know how fast he was going? On a straight road, like Federal Highway, I can probably see 1/2 a mile down the street. If he was doing 85 mph, I can see him. If we was doing 145 mph, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't. Anyways, you seem to know so I'd like to know, too.

Also, I wasn't defending anyone's fleeing the scene so I'm not why you're speaking like I was.

By the way, if we are name calling here, both he and his girlfriend are complete losers. Not just her.

 

I made my judgement after viewing the crash video (go to the second window down on the page to see the full cctv of the crash)

I'm not saying most drivers wouldn't have seen the Lambo, because I don't know, but I can see how the elderly Uber driver either didn't see the Lambo or misjudged the speed.

Both driver of Lamborghini in fatal crash, girlfriend who left scene, have past DUIs - wptv.com

And I didn't think you were defending her fleeing the scene.

 

I haven't seen the video and I didn't know the driver was ejected.As I said, there is no excuse for massive speed there. There is inevitable cross traffic and, as Scott said, the speed will seriously interrupt the sight lines. But the reason is think it's not an open and shut case and the authorities haven't filed the charges yet is because of the complications created by those two conditions.

I would love to know the final BAC and speed. I'm sure the BAC is above the limit (I don't care how much as drunk is drunk) but it will be interesting to see if the speed is in the triple digits.

 

I just saw the video. Holy crap. Theres a lot of horrible stuff but it's so unbelievable that the girlfriend just watched and fled. Unreal. The whole thing is unreal.

 

From the video it looks like the Lambo driver opened the door and climbed out after the crash.

 

I like this policy. Tax payers should not be on the hook for perp's medical care.

 

Even if a person is indicted, they aren't in state custody until arrested.

Scott

 

Horrible and disgusting...

 

Yes, the older man pulled out in front of him. But had there not been excessive speed there would have been no fatality.

You simply cannot speed down these city streets. Look at all the lives that are shattered bc of their poor decision.

 

You know what's interesting? Someone crossed the intersection in the other direction. I wonder if they just got lucky or if they crossed, saw the speeding Lambo, and tried to get the heck out of the way. Also, I wonder if the Buick driver happened to see the person crossing and felt it was safe to cross? I don't think that it's likely that the crossing driver would have impeded his view at the start but it's possible that as the Lambo got closer, there was no way he could see it because the other car was in his way.

Regardless, that speed was insane and that's the absolute worst place to speed like that. Absolutely horrible.

 

I caught that too. Takes the impact of how "forceful the crash must have been to eject the driver" down a few notches. Can't really tell much about the speed from the video, other than "above walking".
Will the Lambo's ECU record the speed?

 

Not being familiar with the intersection is it possible the uber driver thought that the intersection was controlled by a four way stop sign?