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Nikki Catsouras Car Crash Photos

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Look I had these photos up for a day and then I thought Nah, these are truly sad and awful and horrific and its just gonna be a bunch of sickos that come here to look. So I took them down. But after thinking about it I realised I was being hypocritical. I wanted to know what all the fuss was about. I wanted to see these pictures. So I spent some time looking for them. It's hard not to be horrifed by this. And to think what a waste of life and ask yourself "Why"? I've got two kids (3 year old and a baby) and I wouldn't like to think that we'd sometime in the future have an argument and then they went and did something like this.


You probably know the story. 18 year old Nikki Catsouras a.k.a. Porsche Girl had an argument with her Father and he took her car keys away. So she borrowed his $150,000 Porsche and was speeding in excess of 100MPH before hitting a Honda that was doing 70MPH and ploughing into this tollbooth.


Got teenage kids? Would you show them this? It's a hard call isn't it? On the one hand you don't want them seeing images like this (even though they're all over the net by now)...but on the other hand it might make them think twice before speeding and driving recklessly. Dunno. But I know these are haunting images. Don't click on them if you're not prepared to be shocked. Oh yeah...the rest of the story is that the family came across these photos on the net. Apparently taken and posted by a Californian Highway Patrol Officer. Now the family are suing CHP for $20 Million. Still doesn't bring the girl back though does it. Maybe these photos should be used in a Road Safety Campaign?





Nikki Catsouras
SLOW DOWN NOW!
This is what happens
Tollbooth
Tragic
Honda she hit
The End


Back in February the NYPOST had this to say about it - This past Halloween, 18-year-old Nikki Catsouras was killed in a car crash. A few days later, Catsouras' teenage cousin - answering a text message - flipped open her cellphone and was confronted with a picture of the mortally wounded Nikki, who suffered massive head trauma and lost most of her face and head, at the scene.
While Catsouras was still being mourned, more pictures from the scene were anonymously posted on the dead girl's formerly benign MySpace page, and they are now - without the family's consent, which is not needed - being used in at least one criminal-law class at a local community college. (Police admitted on Tuesday that an officer leaked the pictures; the family has filed a $20 million lawsuit.)


California Highway Patrol policy and the state vehicle code forbids Police from distributing crime scene photos publicly. November 15 a judge in California ruled that the Catsouras family's lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol for allegedly releasing the accident scene pictures can go forward.


That case was unsuccessful in March this year but the Catsouras famlily are appealing.

More from other sources - Traveling at speeds exceeding 100 mph in a car her parents say she never had driven before, the 2001 Porsche Carrera zoomed northbound on the 241 before striking a 2006 Honda Civic. The Honda spun out, coming to rest in the dirt center divider.

The lone person in the Honda was transferred to a hospital with minor injuries. He has sued the Catsouras family for damages. That case is pending.

The Porsche Nikki was driving crossed all northbound lanes and then the center divider. It hit a dip, causing it to go airborne. The black convertible then crossed all southbound lanes of traffic and came to rest upside down against the toll plaza.

And here's where we come to the nitty-gritty - In an interview this week, Lesli Catsouras said Nikki had not been drinking but had used cocaine the night before the crash – only the second time she had tried the drug, her mother said.

"The bottom line is, teenagers sometimes do stupid things,'' Lesli Catsouras said.

Two months before Nikki died, she was hospitalized for three days after trying cocaine supplied by a schoolmate, Lesli Catsouras said. Nikki had an inoperable brain tumor – first detected when she was 8 – that caused her to have a severe psychotic reaction to the drug.

Nikki took the Porsche because her parents were going to admit her to a hospital again after she tested positive for cocaine the night before she died, Lesli Catsouras said. Her parents had taken away the keys to her car, but she found the keys to the Porsche dangling in the house.

Nikki Catsouras a.k.a. Porsche Girl