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Three young men smile for a photo in the pub – 45 minutes later, two of them are dead.
Lewis Moghul, 22, was found to be more than three times the legal alcohol limit when he crashed his red BMW 225D MSport, killing himself and his 19-year-old passenger Sammy Phillips.
One witness described the car as traveling at “insane” speeds before it left the road and smashed into trees in Oxfordshire in February last year.
According to new BBC analysis, young men are four times more likely than other drivers to be convicted of dangerous or careless driving.
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) data for the UK also reveals men under the age of 25 are four times more likely to be caught drug-driving – and twice as likely to be caught drink-driving.
Sammy’s older brother Jamie Morris, 25, told the BBC he feared the combination of young men and cars was “lethal”.
Jamie, from Llangynog, Wales, said he remembered “hyperventilating” when he learned of his brother’s death.
“It was just tears and crying,” he said. “You are just broken.”
Sammy and Lewis had been on a night out in Henley-on-Thames with another friend, John Yolland.
All three had a passion for cars, but Sammy could not yet drive.
John described himself and Lewis as “beemer (BMW) boys”, attracted by the “thrill of the speed” and “smoking tires”.
He said he had been meant to give Sammy a lift home on the night of the crash.
“But Lewis had a new BMW and Sammy had not been in it yet, so [he was] quite excited for that,” he said.
The death of his friends was “like the world stopping”, said John, who explained he has since left the “car scene”, selling both his BMW car and motorbike.
During a sit-down discussion for BBC documentary Drive Fast Die Young, he told Sammy’s brother Jamie: “People need to realize you don’t come back, mate. You make a mistake, that’s it.”
The UK’s top roads policing officer, Chief Constable Jo Shiner, said the DVLA statistics were due to a combination of “inexperience, over-confidence” and men “often wanting to show off”.
Road safety experts want the government to toughen up the penalties and reconsider introducing graduated driving licenses.
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(Left to right) Lewis Moghul, John Yolland, and Sammy Phillips
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