How many were US Citizens?
NTSB said Thursday that a 13-year-old [Mennonite] boy was driving the pickup truck that hit the van near Andrews, Texas
He was in the car with his father Heinrich Siemens, 38. Both died, with seven people in a bus they crashed into also losing their lives after Tuesday night's smash
This is the second tragedy to befall the family recently. Before Christmas 2021, the boy burned the family house to the ground after he left the stove unattended while cooking some eggs, according to a family friend
Spare tire? I’ve seen cars here in New Mexico sporting two at a time. Know why they’re called temporary spares? You can only get a couple hundred miles out of them.
OMG, how incredibly stupid of the boy and the man.
Epitaph: “It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time”
I recently returned to the mainland on personal business.
I drove through WA, OR, NV, and ID. One road in NV highway 93, I think it was 75MPH posted. Two lane no divider. A tire failure at that speed doesn’t give you a lot of time regardless of who is driving.
Even at 55 they would have died(no seat belts being worn).
No laws could save you when you do stupid and ride on bad equipment or don’t use the safety stuff you have.
A 13-year-old was driving the pickup truck that struck a van
and then....
The men's and women's golf teams were traveling in a 2017 Ford Transit van that was towing a box trailer when it collided with the truck,
Well, which is it?
This is immensely sad. There’s nobody living who can tell you why the 13-year-old was driving the truck.
Reminds me of the story about 25 years ago when a Russian commercial plane took off for Moscow on a routine trip to Vladivostok. During the long trip, the co-captain decided to bring his teenaged daughter and son into the cockpit so they could see what their father did.
He asked the kids if they wanted to fly the plane themselves, knowing that the plane was under the automatic pilot that would correct for any errors. The daughter tried first and she nervously tried to move the controls but very gently and cautiously.
Then the son, who was a little older, tried next. He’d yank the controls and the auto-pilot would straighten it right back. However, he brushed the autopilot control with one of his turns and it accidentally turned off the autopilot.
There was a brief time when nobody knew what had happened. Soon, the plane spun into a roll. The g-forces were so strong that nobody could reach the controls except the son who was traumatized by the experience. At some point, the real pilots regained control but, still unaware the autopilot was off, watched as it resumed its roll until it corkscrewed into the Siberian mountains. All aboard were killed. It was only the flight recorders which revealed what happened.
Who do you blame? Well, obviously the parent but the parent had paid the ultimate price as did his kin.
Very sad for all involved on the golf team. May they rest in peace.
That 13 year old had probably been driving tractors around the farm for ten years, and likely was a stronger and better driver than 90% of city/suburban 20 year olds.
My mom sent me out to change the tire on our 1950s Chevy sedan when I was five. I of course took it for a test drive around our driveway. Getting the flat into the trunk was too much though — had to get some help from the big kids.
A very sad story. Seeing the photos of the dead young people is heartbreaking.
I see people driving way too fast a lot and I almost never drive. Mr K (not the one on this forum) keeps saying - I mean almost every day - that he sees people driving way over the speed limit and out of control every single day.
Try not to take this stuff for granted, folks. Your life can be ended in less than the blink of an eye. You can be the best driver ever and never with an accident. Doesn’t matter. The effed-up A-holes are out there. Some of them are pre-teens.