If you ever have a car closing in on you at high-speed, I hope you also have the werewithal to signal, check your mirrors, and then make a safe lane change.

If a member of my family was killed in events like this, I honestly don’t think that would be enough punishment. They need to be broken (or dead).

watches their ride get flattened by the crusher...

It’s not unknown. We are getting methane out of landfills now. It’s not scalable to supplant consumption of gasoline. We aren’t going to massively increase landfills especially given the focus on reducing waste production.

...not far from a massive outlet mall inexplicably designed to look like a Babylonian or Assyrian temple.

I’ve had two speeding tickets in the decade I’ve been driving. Both came within a month of each other. The first was a revenue trap traveling from Denton to Dallas - I wasn’t doing anything “wrong” just didn’t slow down fast enough from a 75 zone to a 50, squadcar couldn’t have been more than 500-1,000 ft beyond the…

...on a stretch of the 5 freeway near the city of Commerce, not far from a massive outlet mall inexplicably designed to look like a Babylonian or Assyrian temple.

The LA area has a number of great racetracks and drag strips. Take the race there, and don’t kill anybody.

Mch like drunks, why is it so often innocents that due while the perp gets out alive?

You can talk about tracks all day, but chances are this was a chance and spontaneous encounter on the street between 2 strangers. Neither of these two dummies probably ever thought about racing their cars at a track. That’s usually the case with the morons you see racing down a crowded highway.

There may have been many bad decisions made, but the first bad decision, the one that is the key to all this was the decision to go street racing. The was the dumbass decision that started this tragedy. Don’t go street racing.

Saying “idiot street racers” seems a bit redundant

Keep it on the track. Here is a list of upcoming events near you. https://www.motorsportreg.com/calendar/?q=&r…

I used to work with a guy who thought speed limits and traffic laws were for chumps. He'd regularly say stuff like, "I don't see why I have to go the speed limit - I can handle it." I've heard iterations of this BS from lots of young guys over the years - "I can handle it." Yeah, OK, so let's assume that's true. That…

Absolutely idiotic and I hope the drivers are punished to the harshest extent. Street racing of any kind is wrong, but to race on that part of the 5 is borderline mentally retarded. Anyone who makes that commute on the 5 will tell you that area, from the time you see the Citedel Outlet, all the way before you enter…

sheared roof off........welp... thats a few first responders in need of counseling....

To all of the ***hole street racers who will pipe-up soon to defend the practice, check out the following story. Two of the people killed were from my town. You can read more about who they were before two idiots decided to have an appendage-swinging contest on public roads:

Terrible, just terrible. I hope there is a special place in hell for people that cause tragedies like this.