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True Measure Of A Man?

Roger Williamson's fatal crash and David Purley's attempts to save his life.

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Alive : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

Alive

6 votes NegativePositive

253 days 23 hours ago...

song?

The Living End : LVL 57: VP 5: said:

The Living End

16 votes NegativePositive

253 days 23 hours ago...

The song:
Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World.

Vizreel : LVL 41: VP 4.9: said:

Vizreel

Hidden (Show Comment) -85 votes

253 days 23 hours ago...

God what a crappy song. First saw this with Leonard Cohen`s Hallelujah. Thanks for raping this scene you bastard.

HairyLikeAnimal : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

HairyLikeAnimal

91 votes NegativePositive

253 days 22 hours ago...

1:40 is so hard to watch. he knows theres no hope but he still tries and tries again.

kashshaptu : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

kashshaptu

3 votes NegativePositive

253 days 21 hours ago...

^^ I didn`t make this video, I don`t particularly like the song either.

paper : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

paper

13 votes NegativePositive

253 days 14 hours ago...

Wow. That`s saddening, but inspirational.

Daveoss : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

Daveoss

78 votes NegativePositive

253 days 7 hours ago...

Ohh mate.. to see your friend die like that, to hear his screams and have no one help you, just trying everything to save him... gut wrenching.. I found the hardest part to watch was when they moved him away and that woman comes to try to console him. You can tell exactly what he is saying its "Just get the fuck off me" thats going to be something that sticks with you forever. Poor bastard will still do this day be thinking to himself if only i could have gotten there sooner i might have saved him.
True measure of a man indeed David Purley is that without dispute.

blade9z : LVL 33: VP 4.2: said:

blade9z

64 votes NegativePositive

252 days 15 hours ago...

What the fuck does those arse hole stand there and does nothing? I don`t know how they live with themselve when they watch someone die and does nothing.

Omnicron.4735 : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

Omnicron.4735

17 votes NegativePositive

252 days 9 hours ago...

A poem by Dylan Thomas that suits David Purley`s attempts to save his friends life..

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

fattirefury : LVL 40: VP 4.8: said:

fattirefury

20 votes NegativePositive

252 days 6 hours ago...

Would like to see you man up and touch flaming car with your bare hands.
Very sad tho and song does rock

Londonlouis : LVL 9: VP 1.8: said:

Londonlouis

8 votes NegativePositive

252 days 6 hours ago...

"It`s sad it takes a loss to appreciate the gifts,
so celebrate the occasion, just breathing is amazing"

Murs - A Friend`s Blues

Alive : LVL 24: VP 3.3: said:

Alive

2 votes NegativePositive

252 days 5 hours ago...

thx End

spacedragonman : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

spacedragonman

14 votes NegativePositive

252 days 5 hours ago...

Incompetent fuck heads

e_saa : LVL 17: VP 2.6: said:

e_saa

33 votes NegativePositive

252 days 5 hours ago...

It pisses me of too Daveoss, the guy is never gonna live this one through. Thw worse thing is that from all the people there, he is the only one, the ONLY one not responsible. How many other drivers where there that just kept doing laps instead of realizing there the only one with the appropriate outfits to help, the fuckin organizer ( where the fuck is the firetruck and rescue teams??? you know the ones suppose to be always ready to jump in coes shit always happens in racing ), and the fuckin pricks next to him just holding him back, because apparently that was to easy of a task and they wanted to give him a challenge, or you can`t touch a car with your bare hands??? take off your shirt and roll it around your hands, all 4 of could have flipped it over and taken out the fire...
All these people probably didnt know the driver and probably won`t be affected after a few days.... David Purley should have the right to punch each one of them to death.

Honorable death? "spits"

Drester : LVL 14: VP 2.3: said:

Drester

3 votes NegativePositive

252 days 4 hours ago...

This was the darkest day in the history of Zandvoort.
Spectators began to try and help, unable to believe what they were seeing. Only then were marshals with police dogs galvanized into action, to keep them back.

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