crash in michigan

bombtrack07 · Post by **bombtrack07** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 2:07 pm

Hastings passenger dies in crash
Monday, June 04, 2007
By John Tunison
The Grand Rapids Press

HASTINGS -- At 23, Brian Lancaster had a house and a good job. He talked about marrying his girlfriend.

Those dreams were shattered Saturday when Lancaster died in a car crash near Hastings that police say was alcohol-related.

"He was a good boy," his father, Dean Lancaster said.

Brian Lancaster, of Hastings, was a passenger in a 1973 Chevy Nova driven by a 35-year-old Hastings man when it hit a tree at Whitmore and Upton roads in Rutland Township about 10 p.m.

The car was westbound on Upton when it went though the T-intersection at Whitmore, state police said. The driver and another passenger, a 13-year-old boy, were taken to Pennock Hospital with injuries that were not life threatening.

Their names were not released Sunday. Police said the driver is expected to face charges.

Dean Lancaster said he cannot imagine why his son would ride with a drunken driver.

"I don't understand why he would get in the car," he said.

Brian Lancaster was a Hastings High School graduate and worked at Viking Corp., a maker of sprinkler heads, through a temporary agency.

His father said he liked fast cars, particularly Honda vehicles, and had many friends. He described his son as "extremely outgoing" and said he enjoyed going to car shows with his friends.

Lancaster said his son was living in a house he inherited and had a girlfriend he hoped to marry.

The driver in the fatal crash was the cousin of Brian Lancaster's girlfriend, Dean Lancaster said.

Police said excessive speed and seat-belt use were factors in the crash. Troopers did not say whether any of the occupants wore seat belts.

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this guy was a very good friend of my g/f and i met him last year when we went to michigan to see her family. he was a pretty cool guy. real friendly and outgoing. he had an early 1990s civic with a b18c1. i think thats the engine code? its the integra type-r engine. that car was fast as fuck.

amanda is driving to hastings tonight to attend the funeral.

MoparNeonMan · Post by **MoparNeonMan** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:08 pm

do you.........like...............have a fasination with death?

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:45 pm

Wow. Never ride with a drunk.

That sucks to hear, man.

60trim · Post by **60trim** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:33 pm

Life is precious, don't waste it, don't drink and drive.

rOniN · Post by **rOniN** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:46 pm

^^agreed

Cbussilver01es · Post by **Cbussilver01es** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:06 pm

^+1,000,000,000,000,000 Drunk driving is the most pointless/Dangerous act that anyone could do.. Sorry to hear that.

bombtrack07 · Post by **bombtrack07** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:05 am

yeh drunk driving is fuckin stupid. i asked amanda why in hell brian would get in the car when the driver was obviously ripped. she said that occasionally he would inexplicably do stupid things. oh well. she called me about 6.30 this morning. she made it to michigan fine. got pulled over tho, just given a warning. last thing we need now is a ticket.

03sxt · Post by **03sxt** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:11 am

bombtrack07 wrote:yeh drunk driving is fuckin stupid. i asked amanda why in hell brian would get in the car when the driver was obviously ripped. she said that occasionally he would inexplicably do stupid things.

I was going to say 'Live and Learn', but that won't really work in this case. And I don't mean that as a sick joke, either.