This is out of hand

jerry · 06-19-2006, 07:21 PM

This makes 14 kids killed around here this year. You young guys and girls out there need to realize your not invinceable

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/061906...D7UA.056.shtml

Troy · 06-19-2006, 08:50 PM

bloody tragic that story. jerry the shame of it is, these accidents will always happen. i did a lot of seriously stupid things myself, just dumb luck ( strongly useing the word dumb), that i am around to talk about some of them from time to time.

burd1959 · 06-20-2006, 04:37 PM

been on the recieving end of things lost my daughter and 3 year old nefew in same car crash no words can explane what they are doing she had her license 2 weeks

Troy · 06-20-2006, 10:04 PM

my oldest girl has had her drivers for about 2 weeks now as well. she got her beginners quite some time ago. i had quite a thread going here when she got her beginners last year. last weekend she piled the car into the ditch at highway speed. she and her friends are fine, except for some bruised pride and having a heck of a scare put to them. she apparently took her eyes off the road for a second while my boy was turning on the air conditioning and that was all it took. hit the shoulder, went into a spin and landed in the ditch. no injuries to anyone, not even damage to the car. my advice to her after i pulled her out of the ditch was that i was happy that she learned a good lesson. she learned that a fraction of a second is all it takes to lose control of the vehicle. also that she is not only messing with her life, but that of those in the car with her, and the lives of the people driving around her. she learned all this at the cost of some pride lost. i told her this would make a better person out of her because she would be in better control from now on. she drove that car in like a fence post at 60 mph, i dont have to tell you guys how much that scared the crap out of me. both my girls, my boy, and one of their friends was in that car. i couldn't take a loss like that.

troy2000 · 06-20-2006, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Troy

my oldest girl has had her drivers for about 2 weeks now as well. she got her beginners quite some time ago. i had quite a thread going here when she got her beginners last year. last weekend she piled the car into the ditch at highway speed. she and her friends are fine, except for some bruised pride and having a heck of a scare put to them. she apparently took her eyes off the road for a second while my boy was turning on the air conditioning and that was all it took. hit the shoulder, went into a spin and landed in the ditch. no injuries to anyone, not even damage to the car. my advice to her after i pulled her out of the ditch was that i was happy that she learned a good lesson. she learned that a fraction of a second is all it takes to lose control of the vehicle. also that she is not only messing with her life, but that of those in the car with her, and the lives of the people driving around her. she learned all this at the cost of some pride lost. i told her this would make a better person out of her because she would be in better control from now on. she drove that car in like a fence post at 60 mph, i dont have to tell you guys how much that scared the crap out of me. both my girls, my boy, and one of their friends was in that car. i couldn't take a loss like that.

I thought of scenarios like that as my kids were growing up, and the only solution I could come up with was to teach them early and often. I started them moving the pickup for me around the property as soon as they were big enough to reach the clutch and see over the dash at the same time; I let them drive every chance I could down unpaved desert roads; I had them practice in parking lots of closed stores; I explained what I was doing as I went down the road: watching for stale green lights that might change as I hit them; changing lanes to avoid trouble up the line, etc.

My hope was that by the time they got their licenses, the mechanics and processes of driving would be second nature to them and they'd be less likely to run into something while they were distracted.

One's nineteen now, and the other coming up on sixteen. I'll let you know in a few more years whether it worked (or whether I just got lucky).

Chris · 06-21-2006, 06:29 AM

Troy - defintly a great lesson there.

For a while it seemed we have 2-3 young people dying each year from my local high school. Thankfully it has slowed down.

Rufus Rhastus J · 06-27-2006, 10:06 AM

It is very sad. But, I doubt education is the whole answer. While in the service we were shown several bloody wrecks and I thought about them from time to time...never have I forgotten those pictures. a visual aide is pretty effective.

oneastrix · 06-27-2006, 10:12 AM

It's horrific things such as this which caused me to leave the traffic division back when I was working the Texas/Mexico border...

06-19-2006, 07:21 PM	#1
jerry Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 10,871 Images: 9 Blog Entries: 1	This is out of hand This makes 14 kids killed around here this year. You young guys and girls out there need to realize your not invinceable http://www.pjstar.com/stories/061906...D7UA.056.shtml __________________ I'm a down home back woods redneck

06-21-2006, 06:29 AM	#6
Chris HMFIC Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,834,165 Images: 19 Blog Entries: 18	Troy - defintly a great lesson there. For a while it seemed we have 2-3 young people dying each year from my local high school. Thankfully it has slowed down. __________________ Rules \| Contributing Members No one has the right to deny my personal safety Please be descriptive in your thread titles!

06-27-2006, 10:06 AM	#7
Rufus Rhastus J Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: West, Central Florida, Third World America Posts: 6,339 Images: 1	It is very sad. But, I doubt education is the whole answer. While in the service we were shown several bloody wrecks and I thought about them from time to time...never have I forgotten those pictures. a visual aide is pretty effective. __________________ "They cannot be trusted.....The Romulans (our politicos) are without honor." Worf

06-27-2006, 10:12 AM	#8
oneastrix Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: San Antonio, TX Posts: 5,213	It's horrific things such as this which caused me to leave the traffic division back when I was working the Texas/Mexico border... __________________ There's no one more thankful to sit at the table, than the one who best remembers hunger's pain.

06-19-2006, 08:50 PM	#2
Troy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Manitoba Canada Posts: 2,501 Images: 3	bloody tragic that story. jerry the shame of it is, these accidents will always happen. i did a lot of seriously stupid things myself, just dumb luck ( strongly useing the word dumb), that i am around to talk about some of them from time to time.

06-20-2006, 04:37 PM	#3
burd1959 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: burton michigan Posts: 606	been on the recieving end of things lost my daughter and 3 year old nefew in same car crash no words can explane what they are doing she had her license 2 weeks

06-20-2006, 10:04 PM	#4
Troy Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Manitoba Canada Posts: 2,501 Images: 3	my oldest girl has had her drivers for about 2 weeks now as well. she got her beginners quite some time ago. i had quite a thread going here when she got her beginners last year. last weekend she piled the car into the ditch at highway speed. she and her friends are fine, except for some bruised pride and having a heck of a scare put to them. she apparently took her eyes off the road for a second while my boy was turning on the air conditioning and that was all it took. hit the shoulder, went into a spin and landed in the ditch. no injuries to anyone, not even damage to the car. my advice to her after i pulled her out of the ditch was that i was happy that she learned a good lesson. she learned that a fraction of a second is all it takes to lose control of the vehicle. also that she is not only messing with her life, but that of those in the car with her, and the lives of the people driving around her. she learned all this at the cost of some pride lost. i told her this would make a better person out of her because she would be in better control from now on. she drove that car in like a fence post at 60 mph, i dont have to tell you guys how much that scared the crap out of me. both my girls, my boy, and one of their friends was in that car. i couldn't take a loss like that.