Is Drifting the new Street Racing?
Last night, we had our first crash in San Diego to be blamed on drifting. Per the Union-Tribune:
"One young man was seriously hurt and another was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Carmel Valley early Friday morning after a crash that resulted from trick driving called drifting, San Diego police said."
"The young men were in a 1996 Honda, headed eastbound at a high speed and sideways in the lanes, when a westbound Lexus broadsided it, said San Diego police Sgt. Leonard Flake.
Flake said the driver, a man in his 20s, was performing the street-racing maneuver called drifting.
Drifting involves turning the steering wheel sharply and accelerating while on a curve, so that traction is lost and the car continues sliding forward sideways, Flake said."
From the photos, it’s apparent that the Honda is FWD, which means that technically, this is an "ass dragging" crash, not a "drifting" crash. Semantics aside, since street racing has been more or less eradicated here in San Diego, this might be the Next Big Thing for the city leaders to get all worked up about, five years late…
