HS Party with Alcohol... Death

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Olney boy got 18 months.

Kevin Coffay got four years. He was just released. He was the kid who flees from the scene of the Magruder accident.

Just got seven more for violating his probation - he was driving without the mandated interlock device.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/courts/drunken-driver-whose-crash-killed-three-sent-back-to-prison-for-violating-probation/

Thank you so much for posting this. Every parent and teen needs to read what can easily happen when you fail to enforce healthy boundaries early on.

This boy obviously thought the rules didn’t apply to him. His parents allowed it. Tragic.

It’s so easy to blame parents. But none of us really knows whether they worked hard at parenting or were entitled. As a parent of a troubled teen and a friend of other parents with troubled teens, I can tell you this. Even when you work really hard at parenting, sometimes your kids don’t turn out the way you hoped - and the way your other kids did. You are lucky if you never experienced this.

I don’t know the whole story but I think one of his parents died when he was avteen and the other had a nervous breakdown after the death. Does anybody know the story? I heard it so many years ago I might have the facts wrong.

[Anonymous]

It’s clear that he is very troubled. And I imagine that it will be difficult for him to follow the law in the future. He was already drinking g and doing who knows what else before the crash and I’m sure the crash was life changing, not in any positive way. But also remember that those three boys were also impaired and they got in the car with him knowing they were all impaired.

I think all of us can be thankful that we now have Uber and hopefully we as parents are accessible to our kids if they find themselves I trouble. And hopefully we have been successful in teaching our kids to recognize risks and not engage.

All around this is a tragedy. And I can’t imagine that he will be different when he’s discharged. But I do believe that given the way we view each gal health and alcohol/substance abuse, he probably won’t get the resources that could give him a chance

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It’s clear that he is very troubled. And I imagine that it will be difficult for him to follow the law in the future. He was already drinking g and doing who knows what else before the crash and I’m sure the crash was life changing, not in any positive way. But also remember that those three boys were also impaired and they got in the car with him knowing they were all impaired.

I think all of us can be thankful that we now have Uber and hopefully we as parents are accessible to our kids if they find themselves I trouble. And hopefully we have been successful in teaching our kids to recognize risks and not engage.

All around this is a tragedy. And I can’t imagine that he will be different when he’s discharged. But I do believe that given the way we view each gal health and alcohol/substance abuse, he probably won’t get the resources that could give him a chance

It was two boys (18 & 20), and one girl (18) who passed. One other passenger, a boy, lived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

It’s clear that he is very troubled. And I imagine that it will be difficult for him to follow the law in the future. He was already drinking g and doing who knows what else before the crash and I’m sure the crash was life changing, not in any positive way. But also remember that those three boys were also impaired and they got in the car with him knowing they were all impaired.

I think all of us can be thankful that we now have Uber and hopefully we as parents are accessible to our kids if they find themselves I trouble. And hopefully we have been successful in teaching our kids to recognize risks and not engage.

All around this is a tragedy. And I can’t imagine that he will be different when he’s discharged. But I do believe that given the way we view each gal health and alcohol/substance abuse, he probably won’t get the resources that could give him a chance

It was two boys (18 & 20), and one girl (18) who passed. One other passenger, a boy, lived.

PP here. I apologize for my misstatement. I truly meant no disrespect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can I just point out that he is NOT a kid? He was 20 when the wreck occurred. He’s a grown ass man the and especially now at 29.

I drive by the crash site every day. My teenage sons wear the “happiness”/promise to not drink and drive shirts often. I can’t imagine the continued pain of his victims’ families.

Brain scientists would disagree with you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/science/youre-an-adult-your-brain-not-so-much.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can I just point out that he is NOT a kid? He was 20 when the wreck occurred. He’s a grown ass man the and especially now at 29.

I drive by the crash site every day. My teenage sons wear the “happiness”/promise to not drink and drive shirts often. I can’t imagine the continued pain of his victims’ families.

Brain scientists would disagree with you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/21/science/youre-an-adult-your-brain-not-so-much.html

He is going to kill someone else some day. 7 more years is only going to delay the inevitable.

[Anonymous]

Coffrey is not the same person that this thread was originally about. Coffrey was 20 at the time and the kids killed were from MacGruder. The thread was originally started about the Wootton teenagers who were in a drunk driving accident and 2 were killed.

Not sure why someone resurrected the Wootten thread to post about the Macgruder accident and Coffrey.