“I guess I am old fashioned and I have to wonder what a 16 year old is doing driving home in the “early morning hours from hanging out with friends”.
Color me prejudice. But in this part of the world, nobody can get a driver’s license until they are 18 years old. Kids 16 years old are still children.
Legal or not, no 16 year old should be out that late on their own, much less a girl. Aside from the fact that stuff like this can happen, she could be the next Amber Alert.
What are those idiot parents thinking?
The problem is people buying their children cars and the children not putting any work or money into the car so they do not teach their child to be self reliant.
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.
I think they can have a permit with a licensed/insured adult to a certain age here not sure a age they turn them loose on there own.
We were talking about back in the 60s and 70s we had drivers ed in school for a semester and we had to have it all down to parallel parking to knowing the rules/laws of the road before our teacher would sign us of to go down to DMV for the official permit test at 16 and then we had a period of time that we could not drive without an adult in the car.
Now a days even in our lil community drivers ed no longer exists.
They get a few tips (have to hire a teacher of driving I think is an option if Mom and Dad dont teach ya) then take the written and driving DMV test for the permit.
Now we live in a rural area where gravel and sharp winding roads play a big part in the first accident.
Scary IMO.
Not all kids are alike, nor are they raised alike. My daughter is 17, earned her own money and bought her own car. She is a volunteer firefighter and a 1st Responder.
Her older brother, on the other hand was not nearly as responsible or industrious at the same age, although he did get it together. Her younger brother is behind the power curve as well. Kids, like adults should be judged according to their actions, not age.