High school students crash near the Pentagon

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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Teens from South County driving through near the Pentagon were on their way to DC to drink. Doesn’t take a genius to know what they were doing.

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We bought a new car for our DD when she was in college and needed a car. It was a boring, very reliable sedan with all the new idiot-proof safety features that you could imagine. She has been out of college for 8 years now. Still driving her car.

My DS is also due for a car. He wants his dad's sports car. Generously suggested to us that we wont have to buy a new car for him. No way. He will also get a boring very reliable sedan with all the idiot-proof safety features that he drives for next 10 years.

We need to decrease the age to get a learner's permit and increase the age by which kids get their driver's license. In fact, they must learn to drive for a number of years before they get their adult driver's license.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is a nasty POS - note how she just HAD to mention the type of car. Disgusting.

You’re an even nastier POS, for attacking her.

The make of car they were driving is relevant. Why do parents allow their teens to have access to high performance cars? It’s exactly the same thing as giving them an AR15 and some bullets and then being shocked when they shoot someone.

A 16,17 or even 18 year old has absolutely no business driving a high performance car like that. Parents who give their children cars like that or allow them to drive theirs are complicit in these crashes.

We get it. You cannot afford to get your kid an expensive car. But the idea that buying a kid a BMW is the same thing as buying them a loaded gun is ridiculous.

Oooooh, touched a nerve, did I?

Yeah, I’m thinking you’re feeling a little self conscious right now because you bought Larlo a high performance car for his senior year, didn’t you? And let’s be honest - he probably takes after you your spouse, so you probably have cause to worry.


Well, I hope your kid stays safe and doesn’t hurt anyone. Because if he does, they’re coming after you in court.


Good luck.

lol I’m this poster and we never bought our kids any car at all when they were in school. They took the bus.

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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.

I agree with the prior poster. You really do need to shut up.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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Teens from South County driving through near the Pentagon were on their way to DC to drink. Doesn’t take a genius to know what they were doing.

The car was southbound. Looks like they were headed home.

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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.

Kids can crash in any car. A BMW would hopefully have more safety features.

It was a BMW that destroyed the family at Pyle a few years ago.

Parents giving high performance vehicles to inexperienced teenagers are profoundly reckless and I hope every single one of them are sued into oblivion for those accidents.

I absolutely agree if the parents were negligent they should be sued but it makes no sense to blame it on “a bmw.” Kids drive way too fast and kill themselves and others in all types of cars. (-a mom who drives an old Camry)

Have you really not noticed that 95% of these accidents involve a BMW?

Perhaps BMWs don't fare well in crashes.

The problem is that BMWs drive too fast too easily and drivers do not realize that they are out of control.

Are these self-driving cars?

Because otherwise, they are driven too fast by a driver. In this case a teen driver, in a car they had no business being in.

My teen drives my BMW SUV. But he’s not an idiot and and drive carefully. It’s the driver not the car to blame.

The SUV is a tank and not a race car.

Doesn’t stop them from trying to drive it like a race car though, does it?

No.

Look, I think it’s stupid to give teenagers a BMW and I see the pattern of these spoiled rich boys and fatal accidents, but if you’ve ever driven a BMW SUV, you will understand it actually handles like crap. It’s miserable to drive and is a deterrent. I really don’t like ours at all. My teenagers would never drive it simply because it’s SO difficult to maneuver and stopping it at even 40 mph is like stopping a truck.

Ever consider that those are the cars the parents own and they are not buying them for the kids but borrowing the parents. You sound horrible. I prefer an SUV as it handles much better than a car and better in rain and snow.

Replace your car, its dangerous.

Exactly, stop acting like this was the parents being unresponsible for giving their kid a BMW. We have 2 cars for our family and 3 teen drivers. They borrow our cars, and do not have a car of their own. Granted, ours are Honda SUV and Minivan, but we have not bought them their own car. But if my kid had proven to drink and drive or drive irresponsibly, they would absolutely lose car privileges. And they know they can always Uber home, no questions asked.

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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

Correct. This is NOT a tragedy. This is an entirely expected and predictable outcome.

A tragedy would’ve involved them hurting or killing innocent people in the other vehicle. Fortunately it sounds like tragedy was narrowly avoided, and only the negligent participants suffered the consequences.


This wasn’t tragic - this was lucky.

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Children died. And yet, some of you are opining that this isn't a tragedy. Re-evaluate your own humanity.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of yall are parents, and obviously show no remorse when it comes to other peoples kids, these were my friends and they are not alive anymore, I'll never get to see them ever again. Imagine that.

Just wanted to say I'm so, so sorry for your loss and for the words of others posted here. I wouldn't necessarily continue to read this thread, there will still probably be more thoughtless posts made here by other parents. I hope you can remember the good times you had with your friends. I'm so sorry it was taken away so quickly. My condolences to you.

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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.

It has nothing to do with being good parents. I posted the most feathers in cars. It did not list them as they usually have more safety features. You need to monitor them.

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There is reason whatsoever a a mere, child should be given control of a BMW!

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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.

No, it's not a tragedy. By definition. There's no one who's noble falling from grace, here. This is not profound human suffering. This is just some idiot teens who thought they were immortal doing stupid stuff. It's commonplace.

It's infuriating. It's sad. It's a royal bummer. It's cliched. It's criminal. It sucks for the affected families. But it is not, by any actual definition, a "tragedy."

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Anonymous wrote:Children died. And yet, some of you are opining that this isn't a tragedy. Re-evaluate your own humanity.

I agree. But it’s a preventable tragedy. Better choices on the part of all the parents and all the kids could easily have prevented it. 16/17 year olds are not mini adults. They still need limits and scaffolding. I know lots of parents that basically stopped parenting in about 6th grade. And these are affluent UMC people. They just checked out.

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Anonymous wrote:Many of yall are parents, and obviously show no remorse when it comes to other peoples kids, these were my friends and they are not alive anymore, I'll never get to see them ever again. Imagine that.

Just wanted to say I'm so, so sorry for your loss and for the words of others posted here. I wouldn't necessarily continue to read this thread, there will still probably be more thoughtless posts made here by other parents. I hope you can remember the good times you had with your friends. I'm so sorry it was taken away so quickly. My condolences to you.

NP. I'm so deeply sorry to have learned of the deaths of these young people. I'm sorry, too, that there are others on this thread being needlessly and casually cruel about these deaths. I experienced the death of peers far too young, and my own teens have, as well.

I can imagine what you are dealing with because I still remember how traumatic it was to be in high school and lose a friend unexpectedly.

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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.

Kids can crash in any car. A BMW would hopefully have more safety features.

It was a BMW that destroyed the family at Pyle a few years ago.

Parents giving high performance vehicles to inexperienced teenagers are profoundly reckless and I hope every single one of them are sued into oblivion for those accidents.

It wasn’t Pyle, it was Walt Whitman High School.