Posted on 03/22/2022 4:09:48 PM PDT by eccentric
Six teen girls were killed in a Tuesday car crash in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, police said.
The Tishomingo High School students died after their car collided with a semi-truck, KFOR-TV reported. The Johnston County Sheriff's Office told KTEN-TV the accident happened at about 12:30 p.m. local time at a three-way intersection.
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Very sad. Six girls.
Heartbreaking. Prayers for comfort and strength up for all affected by this.
Including the driver of the semi.
Whatever happened to continuing in the way you are driving, finding the next parking lot, business, driveway, and then turning around and going back the way you came?
That’s awful. Here in Ontario they have a graduated license program where when you first get it as a teen there are restrictions and I think such a scenario where 6 teen girls in a car would be one of them. Not that that can’t be ignored but it does provide some guidance for young drivers.
It depends on their age. My 16-year-old son can drive only before 9:00 p.m. and can’t have more then one other youth in the car unless only siblings are with him. However, my 18-year-old son has no restrictions.
They went to driver’s ed together, got their permits the same day, licenses the same day, etc. It’s just the age.
Ain’t no body got time fo dat
People are driving like loons these days. The girls had probably left school for lunch and were in a hurry to get back.
It sounds as though the truck was traveling on an intersecting street that didn’t have a stop sign. If it had been starting from a stopped position, it wouldn’t have been going fast enough to kill all the teenagers.
Are you crazy? That takes too much time!
“Troopers told KXII-TV the car the teens were in stopped at a stop sign, then attempted to make a U-turn when the semi-truck hit, knocking it back about 30 yards. The six girls have not yet been identified.”
Y’all should say a prayer for the truck driver too. The worst nightmare of everyone that drives a rig is a scenario such as this. This driver will probably never be the same. Even if the girls were at fault. At 55mph it takes a big truck 100 yards to stop. I expect whoever was driving the rig had less than that when he/she saw the car.
Sounds like the young lady driving made a bad decision.
Sometimes bad decisions have deadly consequences, this was one of those times.
Did she not see the truck?
Did she misjudge the speed?
Was she overconfident in her abilities?
We’ll never know. And a small community is changed forever.
Just days after that accident in Texas which killed 6 members of a college golf team along with their coach and a 13-year-old boy and his father in the other vehicle.
I read that the accident with the 13 year old driver was triggered by a blowout. Maybe a more experienced driver could have kept control of the car, maybe not.
Is that you Sweet Brown?
Oh, that’s terrible.
I’ve made a number of hasty turns in my time, but if I see a big rig approaching, I’m like, “Nah, better not do it this time!”
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Seriously though...Prayers for the broken family members and the community
I know that in my old state of Maryland — I just moved to Florida — that Drivers Licenses for people under 18 were provisional for 6 months, then if there were no infractions, it could become a full license. Restrictions included no driving between 1 and 6 am.
I got my provisional, then some time later got pulled over for speeding at age 17, so that extended the provisional license for another six months. That was in 1984. so licensing requirements may have changed over the nearly-40-year span since then.
Believe me, I’ve missed a turn due to intervening traffic. Instead of cutting them off, I typically just go to where I can get turned around or find an alternate route.
Prayers up for the families and their community.
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