BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Rally driver feared dead in crash
but their reporting he is dead here
Rally champion Colin McRae dies with son in helicopter crash - Times Online
Sad, RIP :(!
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BBC NEWS | Scotland | Glasgow and West | Rally driver feared dead in crash
but their reporting he is dead here
Rally champion Colin McRae dies with son in helicopter crash - Times Online
Sad, RIP :(!
He is dead, read it on another forum, confirmed with multiple sources. He died in a helicopter crash, along with his 5 year old son.
RIP
WikipediaQuote:
An AS350B2 Squirrel helicopter registered to McRae [1] crashed 1 mile north of Lanark, Scotland on 15 September 2007, which is close to the McRae family home. McRae is known to be a keen helicopter pilot, and his agent Jean-Eric Freudiger says he and his 5 year old son Johnny were killed in the crash,[1] in which Strathclyde police confirm there were no survivors.[7] Formal identification of the dead is not expected for some time.
Harsh tbh, especially considering his 5 year old son was on the helicopter with him. :/
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo :(
this sucks... a british hero bites the dust :( if its true it will be on the newspapers 2moro
Outcome doesn't look good but I'll wait a bit before time before believing anything.
I first thought 'crash' meant a car crash, then when I read the next line that he died at a helicopter crash I was like whoa, that dude has some serious bad luck to crash twice on the same day, and not only to crash twice but to crash, be rescued by a chopper, crash the chopper. That's the image I had. :icon6:
Meh, this is quite a shame, damn good driver.
May i ask who that is ;O
edit: nvm... guess he was a racecar driver of some sort
Dammit!, RIP >.<.
rally driver, need driving for alot of years, even had a few games made with his name.Quote:
Originally Posted by GantoX
yep i owned one of them on the PS1 lol...Quote:
Originally Posted by ElMarshal
me too >.< this is sad really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dandune
didnt they just make a new collin game? DiRT or somethin like that?
Same here. Read alot of different stories around the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dandune
If this is true. RIP.
So much death in the last week. R.I.P. :(
Former world rally champion Colin McRae is presumed to be dead after his helicopter crashed near his home in Scotland, killing all on board.
British police are yet to confirm McRae's death until they have a formal identification, but his agent has confirmed the Scotsman was piloting the vehicle.
It is thought that one of the passengers was the five-year-old son of the keen helicopter pilot and enthusiast.
Police said that four people were on board the helicopter, which came down in a wooded area in Lanarkshire, Scotland at approximately 2.10am on Sunday NZT.
McRae, 39, secured his first World Rally Championship victory in New Zealand back in 1993 and it was also Subaru's first ever WRC win.
He then went on to win Rally New Zealand in the next two years.
The son of five-times British rally champion Jimmy, he wrote his name in the record books in 1995 when he became the first Briton to win the world rally championship.
He made a brief return to the WRC in October last year, replacing defending champion Sebastian Loeb in the Citroen team for the Rally of Turkey, the 146th of his career, after the Frenchman broke his arm in a bicycle accident.
Police are expected to release the details of the victims overnight
thats crap, i remember playing all the games based on him on the Psone :|
Theres no chance that he survived :| I Live In Lanarkshire where it happened :|
Sorry Didnt See ;)
Just read the morning newspaper. Live in peace young boy.
Now it was time, no more games named 'Colin Mcrae Rally' anymore yay>_>
He is dead because the pictures in our newspaper has the heli and it burst into flames and they were killed instantly...
guess that doesn't give him much of a chance of surviving, R.I.P.
sad, rip.
o boi then the new car is not gonna be made :-(
RIP Colin
R.I.P Colin and his son.
Too bad, :/.
Everyone is only saying "RIP Colin"
Maybe you forgot but his son died aswell... with him. in our paper it says "SONS TOYS FOUND IN WRECK"
:(
If you take that road... 200,000+ other people, whom we also don't know, already died ever since this was posted here, so maybe it's time to mourn them now? Or the 200 who died while I was typing this?Quote:
Originally Posted by GodsRetro
it took you 10 mins to type that??? cause someone is supposed to die every 3 seconds am i right?Quote:
Originally Posted by Negata
R>I>P collin, meh why do these things happen to the brits, didnt someone else die of a helicopter crash not long ago?? (some chelsea supporter tycoon guy)
Wow dude.
I red this a couple minutes ago on my Wii.
I half know who he is .
And then his son two...
Oh my god..
R.I.P.
WTH... i had a game with him >.<
Gone to the round n' round race in the sky. ;p
Hum. Big and small people go, showing grief won't bring him back, will it? Though, it sorta sucks that a young life was forced to end its time.
Do the math again..Quote:
Originally Posted by powamonger
Well it's beside the point. I just find it ridiculous one unknown life (or death) is considered more important only because it was on the news.. I'm sure much more tragic deaths happened that day.
R.I.P. Colin & Son
i loved to watch this guy on WRC tracks :(
Shit :(
R.I.P
i was using my theory of 1 person dieing every 3 seconds. (which is about right)Quote:
Originally Posted by Negata
200 people x 3 (thats the seconds) = 600 seconds divide that by 60 seconds = 10 mins... not doing this to be-little you, but you said my calcualtions were wrong :P
and collin mc rae wasnt any "unknown" guy, he's like the tim henman of tennis, the ronny o sulivan of snooker, we got collin mc rae for motor sports, its like saying nigel mansel died, alot of people know him from the uk.
You could be right. I just googled quick and about the first link said 200,000 people die every day and used that value. If you must know, it probably took me just over a minute to type it, not 10 :tongue:Quote:
Originally Posted by powamonger
I didn't say McRae was unknown, but to me his life means nothing. Anyhow when I said unknown I meant his son. A 5-year old shouldn't die, yeah.. but he's just not someone who'd touch my life and any other child who died that day should get their moment too, not just one kid whose dad happened to drive a car for living, which IMO is one of the most useless jobs in the world anyway.
R.i.p.
So its confirmed :(
RIP collin and his son