Very sad. Six girls.
Heartbreaking. Prayers for comfort and strength up for all affected by this.
Including the driver of the semi.
That’s awful. Here in Ontario they have a graduated license program where when you first get it as a teen there are restrictions and I think such a scenario where 6 teen girls in a car would be one of them. Not that that can’t be ignored but it does provide some guidance for young drivers.
“Troopers told KXII-TV the car the teens were in stopped at a stop sign, then attempted to make a U-turn when the semi-truck hit, knocking it back about 30 yards. The six girls have not yet been identified.”
Y’all should say a prayer for the truck driver too. The worst nightmare of everyone that drives a rig is a scenario such as this. This driver will probably never be the same. Even if the girls were at fault. At 55mph it takes a big truck 100 yards to stop. I expect whoever was driving the rig had less than that when he/she saw the car.
Sounds like the young lady driving made a bad decision.
Sometimes bad decisions have deadly consequences, this was one of those times.
Did she not see the truck?
Did she misjudge the speed?
Was she overconfident in her abilities?
We’ll never know. And a small community is changed forever.
Prayers up for the families and their community.
6 Teen girls in a car. One of them the driver. What could go wrong?
I can’t even tell what kind of car it was. I have never seen a car so destroyed that it looks like it evaporated.
Some similar happened in the Syracuse area probably 15 years ago.
A carful of girls pulled out in front of a tractor trailer, and the official version was that nobody had any idea what happened.
What the parent of a girl who barely missed dying in that car told me was that the kids used to race their cars in the morning before school, and they decided to take one more lap, except the girl who missed dying. She got out of the car to make it to school on time.
The carful of 16 year old girls did one more lap and pulled out immediately in front of the tractor trailer, which couldn’t even have begun to stop, they were that close.