Car Jumpers 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
This is unverifiable as it was taken from police reports. I have related to the best of my recollection. I didn't know about the Darwin Awards when I worked there or you would have received it then.
About 10 years ago I was in charge of compiling the road traffic accident statistics for Tasmania. This meant that we received and codified the actual police reports, which are not released to the public. These contain more information than is released to the public.
In the south of the State, around Huonville, the locals have a practice they call "humping". It involves approaching a speed hump at speed and seeing how far you can make your car fly through the air. They get really bored in Huonville.
A report came in about (by memory) three local lads who approached this sport with vim and vigour and a rare display of stupidity. Not only did they choose to go humping while not using seatbelts, but they also chose to do this on a road that came into a "T" intersection from the leg. This would have been alright except that on the other side of the intersection was not a field, but another "T" intersection. In between these two interesctions there was a fairly deep creek with wide banks.
It is not known what was in the mind of our heroes, but they were travelling very fast and the police could find no trace of braking at any point. They hit the bump and went airborne. They cleared the intersection. They cleared the bank. They almost cleared the creek and reached the other intersection. Unfortunately the key word is almost. The car ended up speared into the creek bank.
Remember the lack of seat belts? There were no survivors. Submitted on 04/29/2002
Submitted by:
lenehan@our.net.au
Reference:
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