Texts show mom knew her teen had habit of driving cars up to 155 mph. victims parents think she should be charged too. [View all]

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Life360 records: Teen drove 127-155 mph weeks before tragedy
According to police reports, cellphone exchanges and Life360 records obtained by the Free Press, here is a glimpse of Kiernan's driving patterns in the weeks and months before the Nov. 17, 2023, fatal crash:

In July and August 2023, he hit speeds of 127 mph, 143 mph, 102 mph, 150 mph and 155 mph — all on separate days. Photos of his speedometer tracking these speeds were found on his cellphone.
In the two weeks before the fatal crash, Life360 recorded 94 trips by Kiernan, nearly half of them over 90 mph. The highest speed recorded was on Nov. 1, when he drove 153 mph for 20 miles.
Videos on Kiernan's cellphone show him drag racing twice, in September and October. Another video shows him driving recklessly through the Millender Center tunnel in downtown Detroit.

"I have screenshots of you doing 90 mph in the middle of the night when I didn't even know you had left (a friend's) lake house ... And again two weeks ago going 123 mph just because."

The text continued: "And your obsession (word choice intentional) with cars having upwards of 600 hp — It's not healthy. It's not safe. And it scares me to my bone."

Three weeks later, Elizabeth Tague bought the BMW.

"His mother repeatedly told responding officers that she was afraid of Kiernan," an investigator writes in a report, adding the teen's most recent police contact before the crash was on Aug. 30, 2023, when police were called to Kiernan's house "because he was yelling and throwing items within the house because his mother refused to get him an American Express Gold Card."

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Kiernan Tague, the driver who survived the catastrophic high-speed crash, has had at least 22 documented contacts with the police since 2018






Tague lost control of the vehicle just five minutes later while traveling at 105mph, hitting a pole and then a tree. The force of the impact obliterated Tague's mother's BMW X3 M and killed Flynn, a standout swimmer at the University of Dayton.

Tague escaped with his life but is now out on bond awaiting trial after being charged with second-degree murder in March.

Now Tague's mother, Elizabeth Puleo-Tague is being investigated by police after text messages emerged showing she was aware of her son's speeding habit - which she had intimate knowledge of through a GPS app called Life360.

Flynn's parents told The Detroit Free Press that Elizabeth should face criminal charges, with his devastated mother Anne stating: 'It's like she handed him an AR-15.'

Among the text messages, Elizabeth wrote to Tague on September 14, 2023: 'Slow the f*** down right now!'

The message was sent two months before the tragedy, after a Life360 report showed the then 16-year-old traveling 123 mph in the family's Audi coupe.

'I have screen shots of you... doing 123 mph... It scares me to my bone,' read another, viewed by he paper in police reports.

Flynn's parents, Anne Vanker and Thad Mackrell, are seeking to use the messages to show how Elizabeth failed to take reasonable actions to prevent her child from hurting others.



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13782795/Kiernan-Tague-detroit-crash-car-flynn-mackrell-text-messages.html