Mate killed by drunk driver...

[Grug]

A 17-year-old boy, injured in a horror crash in Ballajura last night, has died in hospital.

The boy, who was driving a Toyota Camry, had stopped at the corner of Illawara Crescent and Sloop Rise in Ballajura, when a Mazda utility ploughed into the driver's side of his car about 11.30pm.

Police believe the 23-year-old driver of the utility lost control of the vehicle about 200m up the road before veering onto the verge and hitting the Camry, pushing it into a nearby fence.

Major Crash investigators are working to determine the cause of the accident today, but speed and alcohol are believed to have been factors.

The 17-year-old driver was cut from the wreckage and taken to Royal Perth Hospital, where he died today.

Two male passengers, aged 17 and 18, were also taken to RPH to be treated for minor injuries.




The 23-year-old driver of the utility and his 21-year-old passenger were taken to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital to be treated for minor injuries.

Derrick Craster, whose son had just been dropped off at home by his friends in the sedan after going to the movies, was one of the first on the scene.

Mr Craster said he was watching TV in his home when he heard a loud crash nearby.

He said he quickly ran across the road to the crash site and helped the two injured people in the utility vehicle, leaving his white shirt covered in blood.

His wife, a nurse, took care of the young driver trapped in the sedan.

``I just thought I hope they're alright,'' Mr Craster said.

``The crash was loud... there was lots of screaming and shouting.''

Nearby resident Bev Allen said she was watching TV when she heard a loud noise and walked out onto the street to see ``bodies lying there''.

``I thought they were dead,'' she said. ``I just heard an explosion, like a bomb.

``I was scared... I could hear screaming... like swearing and yelling.

``And then I just sort of walked out...

``I just couldn't believe it there was just carnage all over the road.

``I saw the police get a young guy and put him in the car, apparently he was aggressive.''

Ms Allen said people regularly hooned along Illawara Crescent and both houses near the crash site had been slammed into by drunk drivers before.

Sgt Gary Whyatt, from Major Crash, said he believed speed and alcohol were factors.

``It's too early for us to make any judgement in relation to that, we are still in the early stages of investigating this particular crash,'' he said.

``There is an inference that alcohol is involved.''

Sgt Whyatt urged people to take extra care when driving at night.

``There is nothing particularly wrong with this stretch of road if people drive to the conditions and with due care,'' he said.

``It's a case of people being mindful of the way they drive or this can be the outcome.''

Police would like to speak to anyone who saw either vehicle prior to the crash or the crash itself. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/five-injured-in-ballajura-crash/story-e6frg13u-1226064536717

Long story short:

He had just got back from the movies and met a couple of other mates at the house to look at their friends' new car. When they were leaving, 3 of them jumped in Luke's car, and the others in a second car behind Luke's. Luke's car was then hit at full force by the ute and propelled into the fence of the house next door.. Which was all seen by the guys in the second car :( He went in for emergency surgery but never woke up.. His life support was turned off at 1PM Yesterday..

I just can't believe how moronic some people can be. That one stupid decision has taken a good mate from us and changed the lives of everyone who knew him.. I hope this makes people think twice before getting in the car after a drink.

[magic1]

sorry to hear grug.

[duste]

That explains who that is...some of my mates from Uni who live in Ballajura have been joining the RIP group/page on Facebook. :/

RIP.

[Grug]

Was a utility of some sort.

[Rich]

RIP. Drink drivers are scum!! I do not understand why the penalties for drink driving are so weak!

[mehow2g]

RIP... Drink Drivers should be ass fucked for eternity fucking scum.

[wormbo2]

Sorry to hear mate, condolences to everyone involved.
had a similar experience few years ago,All I can say is drink drivers deserve a lot worse than they get!!

[[Jacek]]

The problem is that nobody gives a fuck. It's in their minds when they see it on the news, but the next time they get shitfaced after work they're just gonna take their chances and drive home anyway.

Absolute scum, makes me sick. People are shit enough drivers as it is, even without alcohol involved - but ofcourse they are heroes when they get a few drinks in them.

[pgc]

Nick, who played soccer with him, lives across the road from me. He's pretty cut up about it. Sorry to hear also Grug.

Anyone who drinks shouldn't drive, full stop. IMO either one drink or fifty, just don't risk it.

It actually makes me sick to the stomach to know that even on AL, people are getting done for DUI. I thought car enthusiasts were smater than that but it appears not.

[syther]

eye for an eye life for a life.

RIP

[Scaf]

Thats fucking heartbreaking. Sorry to hear mate.

[TJ]

I dont want to turn this into a political type argument, but I am still stunned that you can get done for drink driving, go back to your car, get in it and drive off, yet it will be taken off you for 28 days for much less.

Sorry to hear mate, I hope you and your friends are coping the best you can.

[SLY346]

Sorry to hear about your mate, sounds as though he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Hopefully if anything positive at all comes out of this some pingpingpingpings will pull their head in and realise the consequences of driving whilst inebriated. theres always going to be plenty of people willing to risk the lives of other road users so they dont have to catch a taxi though :(

[monk_13]

Never a good story to hear mate.

RIP

[viet_boi]

RIP Luke Beyer, was an absolute champ.

[crabman]

I dont want to turn this into a political type argument, but I am still stunned that you can get done for drink driving, go back to your car, get in it and drive off, yet it will be taken off you for 28 days for much less.


Its a downright digrace that it is this way but I have the feeling that until drink driving causes a 20+ death crash it will never be dealt with any harsher...

Sorry to hear bud, hope everyone is holding up alright.

[TheChad]

really sucks. the word unjust comes to mind.

sorry for your loss.

[ELUSIV]

Sad to hear someone so young losing their life like this :(

condolences to those that knew him

[Adr3naL1N]

rip

[rucker_]

RIP

[mr_rotary]

"Ms Allen said people regularly hooned along Illawara Crescent"
It shits me how anything outside of normal driving is just blanket labelled as 'hooning'

[BIGS]

Sorry to hear about your friend. I'm a local which seems to make it all the more soreal.

[e4666wa]

Introduce a reasonably priced taxi service where two drivers arrive. One to drive you home and another to drive your car home. Problem partly solved.

RIP.

[31-EVO]

Another life taken too soon, poor kid. RIP.
Seriously needs to be harsher penalties for drink driving, this country is a fucking joke.

[South]

I dont want to turn this into a political type argument, but I am still stunned that you can get done for drink driving, go back to your car, get in it and drive off, yet it will be taken off you for 28 days for much less.

Sorry to hear mate, I hope you and your friends are coping the best you can.

RIP and condolences to the family and friends.


Have to wait till your sober to pick up the car from side of road... Loosing license for DUI is worse than loosing car for a month... Loosing a loved one regardless of what happened is the worst by far.

[Buckets]

Introduce a reasonably priced taxi service where two drivers arrive. One to drive you home and another to drive your car home. Problem partly solved.

RIP.

The service exists:

0413774931 (I saw a flyer for it at the Windsor a while ago) Another option is moderation, know your limits and stick to them. I frequently have one or two and drive home difference is I have a calibrated bretho (same model used at work and same specs as the cops) in my car. If I'm even close (.04+) the car stays where it is, no if's not buts no I'll be rights. This guy will go for manslaughter most likely on top of his DUI charge's and will have to live with the fact he killed a bloke for the rest of his life. For me and for most people I'm sure this is not the price of a taxi fare or whatever is far cheaper than whats he's up for.

Sorry for your loss Grug.

[Risk10k]

Terribly sorry for the loss.

Time to introduce zero tolerence on DUI, similar to Japan. You get caught, car is crushed. License gone.

[shifted]

Sorry to hear man - been hearing it from heaps of people with Perth being so small. Such an unfortunate event.

RIP

Drink Drivers - the penalties are just too low, its beyond a joke.

[KPCresta]

RIP. My sincere condolences to all his family and friends.

[Gurney]

Use to see him all the time down at IGA, sorry to hear.

[Friar]

like some people have said the penalties for drink driving arent severe enough so they take the risk i hope the guy gets the book thrown at him
things like this are always going to happen but if we can reduce the amount of lives lost through harsher penalties or even a zero tolerance on alcohol while driving would be a good step forward
sad to see another yung victim RIP

[404]

RIP
Way too young to go! Condolences to his friends and family.

[Stealthed]

Very sad, RIP. Hope you're ok buddy.

I hope we can do somthing about the drink driving laws, anyone who drinks and then drives needs to be castrated because if you didn't shit like this wouldn't happen!!

[coFF33]

RIP dude.
Sorry for you and everyone else loss

[Lmx]

I dont want to turn this into a political type argument, but I am still stunned that you can get done for drink driving, go back to your car, get in it and drive off, yet it will be taken off you for 28 days for much less.

Sorry to hear mate, I hope you and your friends are coping the best you can.

Know exactly what you mean, a moron mate of mine, got done for DUI, took him back to joondalup cop shop, then they dropped him off at bar1 so "he could stay partayyy"..he then picked his car up on the way home, blind. some pingpingpingpings will never learn til its too late in the event of something like this has happened...

[patty]

RIP all my condolences go out to all his family and friends.

[Jimmy_S]

RIP... Sorry for your loss!

[PAGZ]

Terribly sorry for the loss.

Time to introduce zero tolerence on DUI, similar to Japan. You get caught, car is crushed. License gone.

This.. There is no reason to drink drive, its fkn pathetic that people do this on a regular basis and think that theres nothing wrong with it. Sorry too hear about your friend mate.

[JT3]

rip to the guy. We went to the same primary school and was good friends with his brother. nice kid :) probably going to the service at bcc this sunday.

[lathiat]

Sucks :(

I'm scared to drive after 1 drink.. don't know where people get off drink driving!

[Grug]

Will also be attending the service on Sunday.

[AGIT8D]

RIP to the poor fella, and sorry to hear that your mate has been taken away so young.

Has the driver of the ute been named?

[JME]

This shit hits home when you're a young parent.

RIP

[flamo_damo]

That's fucked, too young.

RIP

[JNR man]

RIP young one
May you be remembered by many
and forgotten by no one

[lowney]

A few of my friends went to school with him, so sorry to hear about it all.

the penalty for drink driving is a joke.

RIP Luke

[V70R]

RIP... Drink Drivers should be ass fucked for eternity fucking scum.

I agree. The sad irony is that the drunk ones usually end up killing someone else yet they survive ..
RIP to your mate and I hope his friends make a speedy recovery.

[AGIT8D]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=165983920131042

Unsure if this has been created by those who knew him or just ROE because they could.

Regardless, over 200 attending so far.

[Socrates]

a chick asked them to organize it
i think she knew the dude and approached roe to do something.

[ForgedV6]

Very sorry to hear about this, so young. RIP

Just looking at the Facebook page, some muppet called Chezz posted the following;

Chezz Mentesana
"this means no skids? waaahh"

I hope only people with some respect attend the cruise for Luke Beyer.

Regards

[1JZVL]

Very sorry to hear about this, so young. RIP

Just looking at the Facebook page, some muppet called Chezz posted the following;

Chezz Mentesana
"this means no skids? waaahh"

I hope only people with some respect attend the cruise for Luke Beyer.

Regards

No shit.

[yeahlow34]

Terribly sorry to hear this. My mum teacher at BCC. Said he was a great kid.

Will likely attend the cruise briefly.

[Mad_Aussie]

Sorry to hear grug, my cousin got wiped out by a truckie who was on the piss + the ice a few years back, and it happens all over the place far too often. Know what you and the family are going through. Hope the best for you all. RIP.

We need someone to knock up a bunch of 'car enthusiasts against drink driving' vinyls/magnets to put an actual public message to said cruise.

[colt75]

the drink driver was a learner - didnt even have his licence..
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/learner-driver-charged-over-fatal-crash-which-killed-luke-beyer/story-e6frg13u-1226066227379

he should be jailed!

[flamo_damo]

the drink driver was a learner - didnt even have his licence..
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/learner-driver-charged-over-fatal-crash-which-killed-luke-beyer/story-e6frg13u-1226066227379

he should be jailed!

Fuck yes, straight to jail - do not pass go, do not collect $200.

[cplagz]

Fuck yes, straight to jail - do not pass go, do not collect $200.

The only thing that kid deserves to pass is blood out his anus after being pack raped by bikies.

[AGIT8D]

I wonder if he was on his learner's from re-sitting his license after losing it for DUI.

[Grug]

Wouldn't surprise me AGIT8D, Car vinyls/stickers sound good to send a message.

[lowney]

+1 for stickers

[Grug]

Anyone know anyone that could do it and would be willing to help out?

[Mad_Aussie]

PM rs_gav or pgc

[Grug]

Stickers or magnets?

[pgc]

Hey Grug.

I'll do you 100 stickers (22cm x 5cm) for nothing.

PM me your details and what you want on them.

Cheers,


Karl.

[Grug]

Mate, that would be great. Suggestions for what should be on them? Just a simple "Car enthusiasts against drink driving"? I'm not very creative when it comes to this crap.

[-Luke-]

+1 would be more than happy to chip in some $'s for stickers to go benefit the victims family and to raise awareness that Hoons, Performance Car Enthusiasts and Drink Drivers are not one and the same.

PCE ADD (?)

Performance (or Perth) Car Enthusiasts Against Drink Drivers?

[Grug]

Needs to be something people can understand, not sure anyone would get what PCE ADD means.

[-Luke-]

Yeah I know racking my brain. I know theres a group in the us called MADD

Mothers Against Drink Drivers but Drivers AgainstDrink Drivers wouldnt really work?

[Grug]

Lmao nah it wouldn't, msged PGC to see what he thinks.

[cplagz]

"Fuck off, your drunk pingpingping. *You're" Just to keep it in check

[BIGS]

"wheel men don't drink and drive" ??

[Mad_Aussie]

I don't think you should cheapen the message with a shitty acronym etc.

Just have Performance Enthusiasts Against Drink Driving, and some neat logo. If I get the time later I'll knock up something. It's the 'if I get time' part thats the only problem.

[BIGS]

I don't think you should cheapen the message with a shitty acronym etc.

Just have Performance Enthusiasts Against Drink Driving, and some neat logo. If I get the time later I'll knock up something. It's the 'if I get time' part thats the only problem.

Fair point. I was thinking about it from a impressionable youth perspective, of its uncool for real men to drink drive as aposed to the 'real men drink' mentality.

[Gurney]

Just went and paid my respects at the site of the accident, I genuinely felt nauseas. I really hope the drunken L plater responsible has his conscious eating away at him inside.

[Grug]

Thinking about putting a pair of soccer boots at the site with a message to Luke, as my own way of paying respects.

Remember cant be too much text because it's not exactly a big sticker.

[shifted]

Maybe Rufio/Senor Cheng can come up with something if Mad_Aussie doesn't have the time? If there is too many words it would be too squished up for that area?

[Jumanji]

RIP Luke Beyer.

[mitchwnz]

RIP mate... my housemate Shaun played soccer with him.. was really talented and going places. Very sad to see a life wasted like this :-(

[Grug]

Shaun Ennis? And yeh, he was really talented.

[n1ghth4wk]

870 now attending the memorial cruise. Looks legit in terms of not being a standard RoE cruise so hopefully I will see some antilaggers there. First meet point is now city west car park. People really need to learn that alcohol and driving is a stupid thing to do. Not even having a license either? There is obviously a reason he hasn't passed his Ls. Fail driver+alcohol= A price everybody will feel the mistake for. RIP.


Firstly, we would like to take this opportunity to express our sincere condolences to Lukes family and friends! I personally didn't know Luke, but I have heard nothing but nice things about him. I know there are no words that can help you at this hard time, but, just know that there are heaps of us that have you in our thoughts! RIP Luke.

Luke Beyer was a young 17 year old man who had a heart of gold. Unfortunatley, due to a tragic accident, Lukes life was cut short when he was involved in a car accident, the other driver being under the influence of alcohol.

Running on Empty Car Club will be hosting this event, at the request of some of his close mates. Destinations will be chosen by his friends and family.
Maps will be $5 - All money raised on the night will go towards a gift or funeral costs for the family.

Anyone and everyone is welcome to show their respects; If you would like to bring along a flower please do, as we will be attending the shops near the accident scene as requested by friends of Luke.

Police will be notified of this event.

THIS IS AN ALCOHOL FREE EVENT!

IF YOU ARE ATTENDING THIS MEMORIAL CRUISE, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT IT IS A *MEMORIAL*. DON’T DO ANYTHING STUPID! BE RESPECTFUL! ANY ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOUR WILL NOT BE TOLERATED AT ALL! IF YOU CHOOSE TO BE A MUPPET, I WILL HAND YOUR DETAILS TO THE POLICE WITH OUT HESITATION! THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE AND A MEMORIAL IS FAR FROM IT!

Shits me when people think being a slight bit over is ok too.
http://i769.photobucket.com/albums/xx338/nighthawk1992/246770_171789306214582_171302139596632_472273_6729 62_n.jpg

[evo5aurus]

ill be at the cruise, not so keen on it being run by RoE only heard bad things about them but its for a mates little brother

RIP luke

[BOSS 290]

Sorry to hear about your loss Grug. One of my younger brothers was involved in an accident many years ago which involved a drunk driver T-boning the vehicle he was a passenger in. I know it's no comfort to you but feel better knowing my brother and his mates beat the absolute crap out of the driver prior to the police attending.

I'm of the opinion the passenger in the ute should be up for charges as well, surely to heck he knew the driver was drunk therefore responsible as well.

I hope the memorial cruise is well attended for his family and all involved.

[ryanr32]

Such a sad way to see a life ended. RIP

The news article on Perthnow said the driver was due to face court today. Would love to see the justice system prevail and make an example of them.

[BIGS]

I only just realised who Luke is, used to serve me all the time at Iga. Was a pleasant bloke.

[mantou]

Such a sad way to see a life ended. RIP

The news article on Perthnow said the driver was due to face court today. Would love to see the justice system prevail and make an example of them.

Pretty sure he was let go on bail and the court is adjourned for 4 weeks or months? So he could go seek legal advice.

[evo5aurus]

I'm of the opinion the passenger in the ute should be up for charges as well, surely to heck he knew the driver was drunk therefore responsible as well.



the worst bit is that the passenger and driver of the ute both claimed to have no memory of who was driving trying to cover themselves. the police had to use dna from the steering wheel to find out who was driving

the case was adjourned for 4 weeks so he could seek legal advice...

[TJ]

900 people coming on FB

Carpark holds 340 bays, minus however many families are there on the day.

Going to get messy.

[kurbn]

wow @ 900 people

really hoping the cops dont rock up and seize the raised money, its happened before I beleive. It was for sick kids, Especially seeing its going to be almost 5K raised this time.

[TJ]

LOL WUT?

[magic1]

wow @ 900 people

really hoping the cops dont rock up and seize the raised money, its happened before I beleive. It was for sick kids, Especially seeing its going to be almost 5K raised this time.

why

[mantou]

Doubt half of the people attending can actually drive!

Found out I work with Luke's dad, apparently.

[kurbn]

why

Basically this happened

Lots of people at meetpoint in the big carpark on riverside drive I think it is, cops come, search some cars and get the yellow stickers out. One of the cars was carrying the money collected from people which got searched, money was found and seized. Cops were told by numerous people that it was for a charity cruise. Something to do with it had to be a registered fundraising event, otherwise the cops just look at it like youre taking money from people for driving on a public road.

was years ago now, back in carnal days