Ping.....................
Rich kids who thought they could do anything they wanted and get away with it.
You can break Florida laws but not Newtonian ones.
Massholes are the worst drivers in America.
Only ones close are anyone who drives a Dodge Ram in Texas or New Mexico.
When I went to high school in the 70s, driver’s ed was taught by the physics teacher. He seemed to believe that teenage drivers were out to break the laws of physics, but told them they were would be punished by natural forces.
There were problems on his test asking how many foot-pounds of force was generated when a 3000-pound car hit a bridge abutment at 60 miles an hour.
I’d raced motorcycles in high school and was used to high speeds but my dad was an insurance adjuster who investigated interstate car crashes. He showed me his photos to make an impression on me. It made a big impact. I didn’t mess around on the road.
Such a sad story.
Jocks. Color me unconcerned.
Wonder if alcohol/other drugs involved.
I’ll tell ya this: when they all spotted that truck in front of them they knew they were dead. That’s a loooong few seconds too…
Terrible story. I keep reiterating to my son about the dangers speed can cause. He’ll be 16 soon. I may have to show him this article and the pictures. It’s not the speed that kills, but the sudden stop that you can’t see coming.
“””Three Massachusetts high school seniors killed in a deadly crash during their Florida spring break last month”””
It appears spring breaker ages are declining. Why did their parents allow them to travel to Florida?
I wonder what the vehicle was but I can’t tell from the pictures and the article says SUV which is a pretty general description. Electric vehicles are software regulated not to go faster than a particular speed, which for my car is 108. My car is also called an SUV although the engine is an electric motor. It’s pretty easy to get an electric vehicle to go really fast.
I was a CDL Driving istructor teahing an 8 hour class in Driver safety. Probably 25 years ago..I always showed the the movie “Room to LIVE”. The officer did a very good job. I am sure there are better produced ones out there now but they should be required by any Mother and Father before giving themn some complete instructions on every detail of the cockpit before letting get behind the when with you in the passenger seat. Teach them a pretrip inspection. Teach them to park, teach them to back into a space. Or hire someone who will and require reports on Progress, My boss and I used to have arguments over folks I flunked out. Why would I allow a person to drive your vehicle when I sure as hell wouldn’t allow them to drive mine. Its not a game. Its is a privledge, not a right.
Well a sad story, barreling down the road at 110 mph is a frightening speed? Dang I wonder what this writer would say about me in my high school days when I routinely ‘barreled’ down the freeway at 120+ mph when I got off work after midnight and I was just seventeen. Kids do stupid things, unfortunately for these three the stupid caught up to them.
“O’Donnell — a star athlete at Concord-Carlisle High School — was pronounced dead at Massachusetts General Hospital three days after the crash.”
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That seems a little odd.
High Schoolers are now going on Spring Break?
Stupid kills...just not often enough.
Few fears as bad as your last voluntary act.
very sad for the truck driver, probably just trying to work.