High school students crash near the Pentagon

[Anonymous]

I’ll bet those moms would love to go to dcum and just scroll to see anything normal and distracting from the horror of their grief.
Let’s let this go, so they can find relief and escape.

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Anonymous wrote:Again and again.

HS students die in car crashes during this time of the year.

In summer - kids drown in pools and infants and dogs roast in closed cars.

Why are we letting this happen?

Well, Trump’s administration has proposed cutting the CDC’s injury prevention unit.

Expect such tragic deaths to increase .

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Anonymous wrote:A sombering statistic that I try to drill into my teens heads: DON'T get in the car, DO NOT be the passenger (too many in the car, the driver had "a beer", whatever) because more often than not in fatal car accidents -- the driver survives and IT'S THE PASSENGER WHO DIES.
Remind your kids that this is their responsibility to get different/safe/legal transportation (and of course, uber or we'll pick you up wherever, whenever, no matter what).

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Anonymous wrote:Is there a rule about how many teenagers can be in a car? The common theme I see is that in these fatal crashes there are many teenagers in one car. It's so hard driving here to begin with I cannot imagine being a new driver with all of the distractions around you in the car, and then trying to navigate everything outside.

When they have their initial license it is the restricted. And deaths are reduced.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no first hand knowledge of this whatsoever but I'm seeing online that people are saying South county. Again I have no confirmation of this but that is what I have been reading. This is so sad and awful. What can we do to protect our kids when they start driving?

if this is a new driver- they shouldn't have had two friends in the car. start with enforcing those rules at home. I know several 16 year olds whose parents think this rule "is silly," and my daughter gets mad when I don't let her pile in a friends mini-van with 5 other kids.

That requirement is directly linked to fatality risk.

I know the person who did the study.

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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)

Driving an old Camry isn't great either as it doesn't have all the safety features. You can easily make a wrong move and kill someone.

Well apparently the BMW safety features didn’t prevent it from reaching 100+ mph and then crashing into another car.

So please explain how the BMW was any safer in this situation than a 2003 Camry?


I’ll wait.

A 2003 Camry would have the same outcome. Be real.

This particular accident involved a BMW sedan with three teenage boys. Two of them died unfortunately. A third is in critical - the driver. "High rate of speed" says the police report.

That's not usually what happens with a 2003 Camry.

Look, parents that give teenagers these kind of high performance unsafe cars like a BMW sedan are a menace to society. The most awful teenage accidents in recent years always seem to involve BMWs.

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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.

Why? They kill the same number of people annually.

Actually car crashes kill many more people annually than people with guns.

Not children anymore, in the US. It is now guns. 😶

[Anonymous]

Tragic -- two young lives gone. All the plans and dreams they had for themselves. All the work and effort their parents put into raising them... gone.

Their families will be devastated forever.

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Who would give a teen a freaking BMW. Idiots.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll bet those moms would love to go to dcum and just scroll to see anything normal and distracting from the horror of their grief.
Let’s let this go, so they can find relief and escape.

The internet is the very last place anyone should go to seek relief from people being awful, cruel, or callous.

I’m sorry for their tragic loss, and I highly doubt they are reading an anonymous Internet forum.

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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.

This. It hasn’t been 24 hours. Show some respect and an ounce of empathy.

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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.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no first hand knowledge of this whatsoever but I'm seeing online that people are saying South county. Again I have no confirmation of this but that is what I have been reading. This is so sad and awful. What can we do to protect our kids when they start driving?

if this is a new driver- they shouldn't have had two friends in the car. start with enforcing those rules at home. I know several 16 year olds whose parents think this rule "is silly," and my daughter gets mad when I don't let her pile in a friends mini-van with 5 other kids.

That requirement is directly linked to fatality risk.

I know the person who did the study.

It's pretty common to pile in friends. I refuse too.

[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.

Even if the kid showed off, they didn't deserve to die. No one does.

This is why you should track your car and child.

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Were they stoned or drunk? Or both?