I wish every new driver had the opportunity to learn before being put into weather situations that can catch them by suprise. Not jumping any creeks or catapulting over cars, but just basic road hazards would save alot of grief. Cops should give this one a pass...No harm, no foul.
If he was doing doughnuts on the grass in the park, then yeah there is damage and he should be charged accordingly. If just in a parking lot, no big deal. The article doesn’t say one way or another.
I live in W.MD where there’s no such thing as a “straight, level road” and winters in these mountains are lethal *if* you don’t already know how *not* to die the first time you get behind the wheel of a car.
The mountains are killers even on warm, summer days so there’s never a good time to “relax and enjoy the drive”.
Not only can the curves take you out but whatever might be in the road on the other side of that blind curve could send you to your maker, as well.
Most of our traffic fatalities are “outlanders” passing through, rest their souls.
HS driver’s ed taught me the basic stuff but dad taught me to survive the “3Ws” “Weather, Wildlife, Whatever”.
[and crick jumpin’s fun...don’t knock it]...LOL
I agree about the pass.
-Every- time we leave the house in the winter ~or~ there’s been *any* kind of precip, hubby ‘checks the road’ on the deserted straightaway down from our lane.
Then we go on, knowing whether there’s black ice, oily rain slicks, overheated slippery macadam, ‘touchy brakes’ and everything in between.
[I just wish he’d warn me he’s about to “test” more often]....LOL