http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=418170

so sad

 

not very good advertisement for the 5 star rating from before!!!!!!:<

 

That's sad. What I found interesting was that everyone that were wearing their seatbelts survived, and escaped with minor injuries. The two that were thrown from the car were obviously not wearing their seatbelts causing one to die and the other with very serious injuries. The HHR did her job. Having a teenager with just a hardship license at the wheel, this thing could happen in any kind of car or truck.

 

This is the big battle in the Massachusetts State House........how old before you can drive? Inexperience is the #1 killer of teens behind the wheel. The one in the news article posted was only 16.

 

that is sad, but damnit its not a wagon. And you guys are right it could have happened in any car with a driver that is only 16. And why werent those people wearing a seatbelt. it amazes me that people dont wear them, i yell at my prego wife to wear hers, and try to get the lap part as low as she can she. she is affraid that if we were to get into a accident it would hurt the baby. she has gotten alot better about it, but i dont think that if i was to be in a wreck that i could take the loss of my wife and the baby.

 

As teens go, I was pretty responsible... but still, at 17 I almost ended up in a lake one winter because I was going waaaaay too fast on really snowy/icy roads... on a curvy road, no less-- all because I was running a few minutes late. If it wasn't for a well-placed fence and some really good luck, it wouldn't have been a pretty scene. Stupid kids (I'm talking about myself here)...

Inexperienced drivers are dangerous. Everyone should have been wearing their seat belts.

I feel sorry for the family... and the driver... I can't imagine having to live with that for the rest of my life.

 

I think most of us who are older were better teenaged drivers. Why? More serious training. The instructors were serious, and we took it seriously. The Massachusetts State Police will be examining driving schools, their instructors, and their programs. I hate to say it but my kids were all lousy drivers. My wife and I took them out, but the driving schools didn't do more than rake in the dough. And here, you really need a driving school card to afford insurance. And each of my kids learned the hard way. The three of them each were in accidents that were surchargeable. The insurance was crazy. Now they understand. But the death rate keeps climbing. Lots of teens killed in the last year, 2 sisters right here in my town.

 

I was a pretty good teen driver. But then again I was driving long before I had my license.

 

I just read the story from the link above...very sad, 6 people in a HHR built for just 5...someone didn't have a seatbelt to use....

I took my Daughter out all the time and got her to understand the road, drive like your life and everyone's life around you depends on it ! when she 1st got her license she could only use the family car for going to her part time job and when we took a family trip I had her drive some of it help her learn to drive on a highway....I bought her a new Saturn when she graduated from High School but I put so many rule on its use it made her respect her right to drive it...(rules like, its for going to college and work, she had to ask to use it for any other type of trip, everyone thats in the car uses a seatbelt or they walk, you get it serviced when it needs it, keep it clean inside and out, showed her how to check the oil, tires and how to change the oil and a flat, so on) this taught her that a car is not a toy and to respect her car and driving it.

the best way to keep teens safe when it comes to drive is not to raise the age but to teach them more about driving and respect for the power a car has.

 

I was just about to post that...6 people in a car designed for 5 and people not wearing their seat belts...the engineers can only do so much...

-wC