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LisaL

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20. Make sure he/she doesn't text and rive.

Reply to onlyadream (Reply #8)

Wed May 29, 2013, 05:12 PM

May 2013

Like somebody else posted, recently a 16 year old got killed on her first solo trip. Run into the truck. A large unsend text was found on her cell phone.

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California teen misses trip, 5 friends die in crash [View all] Initech May 2013 OP

Lucky kid. It wasn't his time. Very tragic though for his friends. n/t Cleita May 2013 #1

Tragic and avoidable. Beacool May 2013 #2

This happens all too often, and the keywords remain the same: LeftinOH May 2013 #3

most of the time you can add in "alcohol", "texting", and sadly Blue_Tires May 2013 #9

Highway patrol officers came to my school in the sixties and showed us all these after the fact freshwest May 2013 #25

Frost put it best whistler162 May 2013 #4

K&R & Yes, he did! nt patrice May 2013 #13

I'll bet this kid will come to understand that he's lucky to have a parent who cared about him. hamsterjill May 2013 #5

How sad ... no words is correct. n/t cosmicone May 2013 #6

saw it on local news , the images were really bad JI7 May 2013 #7

This scares the crap out of me onlyadream May 2013 #8

Make sure he/she doesn't text and rive. LisaL May 2013 #20

The butterfly effect Democat May 2013 #10

Yes, exactly. A point that most don't grasp. n/t Psephos May 2013 #16

That's what I thought. Hassin Bin Sober May 2013 #19

Just the time it would have taken to load him in the car could have been the difference had he gone. Exultant Democracy May 2013 #22

You are right. indie9197 May 2013 #24

Of course if I was his father, who seems to have been the one outside when the kid pulled up Exultant Democracy May 2013 #26

Yep. And if everyone were still alive... bunnies May 2013 #35

Wrong Movie, Teen needs to start watching the whole snooper2 Jun 2013 #37

From the California vehicle code: SpankMe May 2013 #11

They'd most likely all be alive today lobodons May 2013 #12

Why is that, exactly? LisaL May 2013 #21

Perhaps teen drivers should be forced to look at the Coroner's photos to get their license nikto May 2013 #14

Same tactic pro-lifers use ... JustABozoOnThisBus May 2013 #18

Time to ban cars! ErikJ May 2013 #15

I always hate this time of year.... AnneD May 2013 #17

Driver didn't have a license mile18blister May 2013 #23

The driver was unlicensed, liked fast cars, Jenoch May 2013 #27

Parents, please know who's driving the car tblue May 2013 #28

You provide good a dvice. Jenoch May 2013 #31

If he had gone perhaps the accident wouldn't have happened flamingdem May 2013 #29

Missing The Point SoCalMusicLover May 2013 #30

Pretty much the same thing happened when I was in 9th grade (1968). Six high school students died Rowdyboy May 2013 #32

Sometimes it is such a close thing, whether someone lives or dies. tblue37 May 2013 #33

As it happens, my family was driving that stretch of road about 45 minutes before that crash stopbush May 2013 #34

{responding late} Single vehicle, speed mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2013 #36