On Thursday the 11th December four young men stole a car in Daisy Hill Bradford West Yorkshire, after driving through the streets at high speed for a few hours they proceeded to Killinghall Road where, again at high speed, they lost control of the car and drove into the side of a fish and chip shop.

All four died in the resulting explosion and fire despite police efforts to rescue them, they had driven into the side of the building where the gas main was situated.

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The police were in tears after pulling one young man from the wreck and failing to revive him, witmnesses say that despite the heat and the flames they pulled fire extinguishers from their cars and attempted to get to the ones remaining in the car.

Some of them had witnessed the crash and the explosion as they had been attempting to pursue the car and its occupants.

The police have been cleared of any blame as the police video footage shows that they were at a 'safe' distance from the vehicle as they were in a built up area and reports of a rolling road block being used to try and stop the car has been denied.

I am not here to blame the police for their actions, a car was stolen and had been driven at high speed through estates and was potentialy a danger to all the people that lived there, they had a job to do and were trying to do it without endangering lives anymore than the car was already doing.

However, there are four sets of parents out there today that are going to be looking to lay the blame at someones door, two weeks before Christmas they have lost their sons, they will be grieving and in shock, and they will be asking the eternal question, Why?

We live in a blame society, someone has to be responsible for all the things that happen, no one is satisfied with the explanation that a sequence of events unfolded and resulted in a tragedy.

So who is to blame?

The guy whose car they stole for having a fast and flashy car (Subaru Impreza)?

The boys for stealing it?

The parents for having failed to instill moral values into their children, for not knowing what they were doing or where they were in the early hours of the morning?

The Police for doing their jobs?

The guy who owned the fish and chip shop for having chosen that site to have it on?

The Government for having laws that they could break?

A society where it is cool to be in a gang where you have to show how daring you are, cool to be bad, cool to be seen with those that are?

The fact is that there is no one to blame for what happened, a sequence of events began with the theft of a high powered car, young boys that believed they could control it, that wanted to feel powerful for a while and have the thrill of being able to tell all that they outran the police, that they were the top guns.

It ended when they could not control the car and tragically hit the wrong side of the building, the side where the gas main was installed.

The guy who owned the shop was only interested in how the parents would be feeling, though he is going to lose a lot of money while he is closed, and that will be a long time as you can see from the picture of the building. That is all anyone said that was interviewed, our hearts go out to the parents.

And so does mine, for whatever their sons were or were not, whatever they did, however they were raised they did not deserve for it to end like this.

Our thoughts are with them at this time, for right now each one of them will be blaming themselves.