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Posted on 09/08/2007 5:10:42 PM PDT by kiki04
LOL!! spending a bit to much time at the galleria?
My Dad, born and raised in Texas, received his DL at the ripe age of 14 also. My understanding is that many of the farm kids drove on the FM roads hauling hay years before they received a license.
ill never understand people who are too scared to stop after hitting someone, let alone turning yourself in days later. doesnt initial fear subside after about five minutes?
then again ive never ran anyone over..
So she admits hitting the guy, and not stopping and seeing if he’s OK or calling 911? Total BS story. Anything as big as a human, you’d go out of your way to NOT hit if it was already dead. I even swerve around dead squirrels on the road.
We live in a hilly area and one major route goes across the hills and is very windy and hilly. It’s a treacherous road and I hate even crossing it.
Every couple years 2-3 16 year olds lose their lives on this stretch of road in horrendous accidents. For one carful of girls, it was on the driver’s 16th birthday as they were heading to school and she pulled out right in front of a tractor trailer going the speed limit (55). No one knows why she took the chance; whether she didn’t see the truck, or thought she could beat it out, or just didn’t look before pulling out.
Kids that age just do not have the experience in either life or driving, to be allowed that kind of responsibility.
My kids will all be at least 18 before I allow them to take their road test. I’ve come right out and told them that driving them is not that big an inconvenience and I’d rather drive them than bury them.
Correction, one of the passenger’s 16th birthday. The kids were all 16 though.
It's the smell of alcohol on your breath or lack of a valid license that makes you think twice about calling 911.
“My understanding is that many of the farm kids drove on the FM roads hauling hay years before they received a license.”
I learned to drive while living in a farm community, and I (a non-farm kid) was unique in that I didn’t start driving on the road at age 12. One kid had a Z28 Camaro at age 14.
Here’s a more likely scenario -
The teen had been drinking, and was on her way home from a party. She ran over they guy, but kept going ‘cause she was drunk and wasn’t supposed to be out at that time at night. Even if her parents didn’t know the girl was out, they’re closing ranks around their little darling now — after all, the poor man is dead, and sending their daughter to jail won’t change that, right?
First of all, why was a 16 year old kid out driving in the early morning hours?
Oh, never mind...I’m too old fashioned I guess.
Frankly, Muawiyahamed or whatever your name is, the real question is whether this 16 year old's story is believable. You seem to believe that in your area that there are any number of people being run over on the interstate by multiple vehicles and that somehow applies to this case in which this 16 year old was driving home in the wee hours of the morning and hit the only guy on a bike within ten miles in a relatively small town in Ohio.
Please take your crazy concepts (I hate to call them ideas because the word "idea" implies some sort of congnition.) someplace else. We are all stocked up here.
I guess the Department of Transportation keeps better records than the Federal Bureau of Incompetents, er, Idiots, er, Imbeciles, er, Investigations. But maybe the reason teh FBI doesn’t keep good records is because of what it would show about the FBI’s own activities in cities like, ferinstance, Boston.
“First of all, why was a 16 year old kid out driving in the early morning hours?”
Cause she was out at a drinking party, and her parents might— or might not— have known.
Signed,
father of 2 daughters.
The bed was on fire when I laid down on it!
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You can see the sight of the killing from the highway itself.
This is hardly a smalltown rural sort of place. It's just off the throbbing beltway of a major American city!
What a total tragedy and waste of young lives. I won’t be able to sleep well tonight thinking about it.
“My kids will all be at least 18 before I allow them to take their road test. I’ve come right out and told them that driving them is not that big an inconvenience and I’d rather drive them than bury them.”
You are such a wise and loving parent. Your children later in their lives will be very grateful for your wisdom, and I bet they will follow those very same rules with their own children. You are their mentor, and that is how it should be.
You are a wonderful parent. Thank you.
Anyone who DOESN’T report is guilty of a hit and run FELONY. The very reason is that they were likely TRYING to avoid the lessor charge of Drunk Driving. Stupid Girl.
Years ago before we had free shuttles to take folks to and fro are Towns big Seafood and Wine drinking fest a horrible thing happened.
Police told a man not to drive due to how intoxicated he was.
He was walking in the dark along Hwy 101 trying to hitch home.
So drunk wobbling into the road out of the bike/walking lane he was hit and his body fell in the road.
The police were called pronto and the officers who told him to walk home not knowing it was the same guy responded to the call with lights and speed.
They ran over the mans dead body a second time.
What a horrible incident.
We have not gone the Seafood Fest in years no fun trying to maneuver KV’s wheelchair in a packed tent of tipsy tourists.
However I hear they have changed
how wild the intoxication gets and big presence of police waiting to stop potential DUI before they get to far down the road. The free shuttles help too.
That is only because so little is expected of them. My boys have been driving trucks and tractors, shooting guns, and etc since way before 16 years, and doing so quite responsibly. My eldest boy has had a drivers license since he was 15... He's eighteen now, never a ticket, never a wreck.
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