High school students crash near the Pentagon

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the kids involved in the crash went to South County High School. I’ve known him since elementary school (not personally). I believe he drove a Lexus.

As grim as it sounds, it doesn’t really surprised what happened. He would often rev and show off his vehicle in the parking lot at school.

South County has gotten a really bad pattern of student crashes in recent years. We’ve either passed or are around the two year anniversary of the Lee Chapel road crash where two girls lost their lives.

The only solution imo is to have more cops and up the fines for speeding. Kids will always rebel against parents and their rules. It’s just how things are.

Are you kidding? Daddy will just pay the fines. The only solution is for parents to use their brains and not buy their high schoolers a Lexus or BMW to show off.

[Anonymous]

Everyone shut the hell up! Don’t speak about nothing You know
Nothing about the background of any of these teens.
Disgusting humans you all have to be to say horrific things on such a fatal strategy that no one deserves. And only Mad because you can’t afford
To give your teen a high performance car? High performance compared to a 2006 Honda wouldn’t have been any different.. Older cars would put teens at higher risk if accidents occurred like this. You all are the idiots, for even making a forum to bash out teens and for saying the parents are idiots. Nobody deserves to die but also don’t belittle what you simple can’t give your child.
All three teens are well highly educated with ap scholars and many full scholarship offerings. Full ride. No drugs, no entitlement. Pure bliss, and honorable teens who have and give so much respect to everyone around them. Simply good teens enjoying their favorite place to eat and shop.

You all are disgusting

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone shut the hell up! Don’t speak about nothing You know
Nothing about the background of any of these teens.
Disgusting humans you all have to be to say horrific things on such a fatal strategy that no one deserves. And only Mad because you can’t afford
To give your teen a high performance car? High performance compared to a 2006 Honda wouldn’t have been any different.. Older cars would put teens at higher risk if accidents occurred like this. You all are the idiots, for even making a forum to bash out teens and for saying the parents are idiots. Nobody deserves to die but also don’t belittle what you simple can’t give your child.
All three teens are well highly educated with ap scholars and many full scholarship offerings. Full ride. No drugs, no entitlement. Pure bliss, and honorable teens who have and give so much respect to everyone around them. Simply good teens enjoying their favorite place to eat and shop.

You all are disgusting

Nice try on the jealousy thing but no. We can afford to give our kids high performance cars to drive but we wouldn’t do that because we are good parents. My kids can drive a high performance car when they have the brain development to earn and buy it themselves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Please stop buying your teens these vehicles! I don’t know details here, but I’m talking especially to immigrant families and those whose vision of the “American Dream” (maybe mainly the kid’s vision, but they work on the parents to give in) includes a fast, fancy car. Again and again we see the same result: dead teens, broken families, hospitalization, jail time, and lawsuits. I have a friend from another country whose high school age son has stopped attending school “unless he gets a car”. Yes, that’s correct. First generation, spoiled rotten, materialistic, manipulative. Because school success is so important in this family, the parents recently gave in! Stay strong, parents, and do the right thing! The American dream ends quickly once your kid brings shame upon the family and ends up in jail or causing you financial ruin. This could apply to any brand of powerful vehicle when driven by a teen with an undeveloped prefrontal cortex, but the BMW is the least surprising detail here. So sorry to hear about this tragedy. My heart goes out to the families. To other families: please do not let this tragedy repeat!

The car isn't the issue. It is how it was driven but maybe the teens weren't at fault and it was another driver or freak accident. I'd rather see kids in new cars with safety features than older ones with no safety features. There is far more to it. You need to track your kids and their driving. Kids need to drive for experience. It may have been a parents car. Mine will drive a new car. Why? Because we only needed one good car for years and now with RTO we need a second good car so we will buy a new one, and because we are older and normally live very basic, we want a nicer car.

I disagree. The teen brain (especially male) is not mature enough to make good decisions given this kind of power and speed. Nothing wrong with a new car for its safety features, but it should belong to the family, not the kid. And it shouldn’t be a performance vehicle. Agree with you that tracking and experience can help, but it’s the same story again and again with teen boys and fast cars. You sound defensive. Buy something reasonable that isn’t just for show/speed.

I'm not defensive and I monitor everything and we WILL put tracking into all our cars when ours starts driving soon. I posted the list and these are not the most deadly cars for teens. The driving behavior was. I'm so tired of people bashing boys. You need to be responsible for your kids and monitor them. You can give them an old car and they can still drive it in a dangerous way. I have no issue with mine driving performance cars or SUV's. I want safety features and monitoring. Why aren't you monitoring your kids?

You sound like the dim pedestrians and cyclists who argue about having the right of way. Nobody cares about that when you’re dead. Better to not end up dead in the first place. You can monitor your kids and watch them have an accident that kills themselves or God forbid other innocent people. It only takes a few seconds of poor judgement to die, and way too easy to do when you give a teen boy a deadly machine that’s literally engineered to go fast, and quickly, and to not feel like you’re going particularly fast when you do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You all are insanely disrespectful. 2 kids died and all y’all seem to talk about is the fact the driver has a BMW. Maybe take some time out of your days to pay respect? You all are insensitive.

Absurd.

This was entirely preventable - it's easier to call others disrespectful than to look inward at your own parenting choices. Any parent to gives their kid a BMW and lets them go out with friends late at night in the rain, needs to look in the mirror. Sounds like that includes you, pp.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is the news article: https://www.arlingtonva.us/About-Arlington/Newsroom/Articles/2025/Police-Investigate-Fatal-Vehicle-Crash-near-Pentagon

It mentions the car brands.

Well, reporting the news is disgusting and prejudiced!

[Anonymous]

Were the BMW and Lexis racing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Were the BMW and Lexis racing?

It does not sound like it. It sounds like the poor Lexus people were innocent and just unlucky. Thankfully they were not physically injured although I'm sure it was terrifying for them. They could have been killed too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone shut the hell up! Don’t speak about nothing You know
Nothing about the background of any of these teens.
Disgusting humans you all have to be to say horrific things on such a fatal strategy that no one deserves. And only Mad because you can’t afford
To give your teen a high performance car? High performance compared to a 2006 Honda wouldn’t have been any different.. Older cars would put teens at higher risk if accidents occurred like this. You all are the idiots, for even making a forum to bash out teens and for saying the parents are idiots. Nobody deserves to die but also don’t belittle what you simple can’t give your child.
All three teens are well highly educated with ap scholars and many full scholarship offerings. Full ride. No drugs, no entitlement. Pure bliss, and honorable teens who have and give so much respect to everyone around them. Simply good teens enjoying their favorite place to eat and shop.

You all are disgusting

Higher risk of what?

[Anonymous]

Don’t give your kids BMWs or similar. Enforce the state law that limits the number of kids in a car with a teen driver. Thankful no one else was injured this time (my heart still breaks for the families of those freshman girls walking home from school when they were killed by a reckless teen BMW driver). Parents need to be parents, not indulgent friends.

[Anonymous]

The bottom line is that none of these parents knew what their kids were up to, or they didn’t car. Likely this night or any night. Is a scourge in parenting, especially of older teens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Extremely sad news is not even the way to begin this. Three students were in an accident near the Pentagon, their BMW hit a Lexus. Two did not survive. I am hearing these are students from a Fairfax county high School. This is beyond tragic.

It sucks. It’s a bummer. But it’s not “tragic.” This doesn’t meet any definition of tragedy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:One of the kids involved in the crash went to South County High School. I’ve known him since elementary school (not personally). I believe he drove a Lexus.

As grim as it sounds, it doesn’t really surprised what happened. He would often rev and show off his vehicle in the parking lot at school.

South County has gotten a really bad pattern of student crashes in recent years. We’ve either passed or are around the two year anniversary of the Lee Chapel road crash where two girls lost their lives.

The only solution imo is to have more cops and up the fines for speeding. Kids will always rebel against parents and their rules. It’s just how things are.

They didn’t “lose their lives.” They died

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Extremely sad news is not even the way to begin this. Three students were in an accident near the Pentagon, their BMW hit a Lexus. Two did not survive. I am hearing these are students from a Fairfax county high School. This is beyond tragic.

It sucks. It’s a bummer. But it’s not “tragic.” This doesn’t meet any definition of tragedy

It is tragic.

As a parent of preteens who knew kids who died in car crashes in high school including my best friend's bf, I am very sad for these kids and their families and friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Don’t give teens BMWs or similar. This tale keeps getting repeated with tragic results. At least this time they hurt themselves and not innocent teens walking down a sidewalk.

I was just thinking about that and it was another teen boy in a BMW. I know kids can do damage with any vehicle but why would you let a teen drive a performance car?

I know someone that let their kid total two BMWs. Nuts.