(Any E36 drivers on this board, pls dont take it personally!)

So yeah, slightly shaken/disturbed this evening after getting home.

Seriously, do E36's in the states have as bad a reputation as in the UK? Here they tend to be riced out with a fart can exhaust and rear wing that wouldnt fit under your average multi-storey carpark with some young tit of a ricer driving them.

Sad really cos I think they're a genuinely nice looking car - halfway between the oldschool angry E30/34 and the more modern gens.

Anyway, I digress:

Coming home from a mates place near Swindon on the M4 this afternoon, motorway traffic slams to a halt. Cant see anything on our side of the motorway, come around the corner and jeeezus H christ. What's left of an E36 in the barrier on the other side of the carriageway, totally destroyed. Then we noticed the 3-400 yards of debris behind it before the next nearest bit of stopped traffic, where he's apparently clipped a truck by the look of it.

I have no idea what speed this cretin was doing but he must have been waaaay beyond even stupid limits. See this story wouldnt be so bad if the guy was injured or had killed himself in the crash because there's a kind of darwinism in action - he was out of the wreck apparently uninjured and running around. The guys kid is in a heap 100 yards away from the car with at least a dozen people around him/her and they're trying to get the wife out of the car Got past eventually and heard 15 minutes later on the radio that they'd closed the motorway in both directions due to a fatality.

Sometimes you try not to look, cant help it and then you wish you'd not been so damn stupid.

See I can deal with speed if it's just me in a car or (maybe a stupid statment) someone that knows what they're getting into and doesnt object, but ffs with your wife and kid in the car!? To leave that trail of debris behind the car he must have been at missile cruising speed, I hope he goes to prison for a very long time.

So yeah, bit shaken this evening - off to find a stiff drink...